Personally, I doubt it's anyone being intentionally misleading or dishonest, based on my experiences dealing with a chain hobby shop. They are improving now to the point that most of the staff can at least identify a particular car and troubleshoot obvious stuff now, but most of the staff at my local place are high school or college kids who are not into the hobby when they walk out the door of the shop. When the store opened up, even the owner couldn't tell the difference between a pinata and a pinion gear. As I said, things are improving now and the owner of our local shop is striving to learn the business, but a lot of times, the sales staff only gets a crash course in r/c gear and has to rely on a "cheat sheet" they keep with important features, along with what's printed on the shiny boxes. And we all know that nobody spends more money on shiny boxes with impressive bold print than Traxxas, not that I'm knocking them.