My very First car was an old Tamiya somthing many moons ago then I got out of the hobby. Then I got a Bolink Sport 2k an LRP runner esc and a silver can motor. It was cool (at the time) running 4 1/2 min on my 1200 Nicd batts. But when I got back in the hobby I got a savage. Then I was hooked for good. I was all about the nitro. "O man nitro is so much better then electro" and so on and so forth. After a while, $35 a gal for nitro $8 a glow plug, cold starting, breaking pull starters, and all the tuning every time the weather changes I was really starting to lose intrest in the hobby all together. Then a got an rc18t, with a Megatech 6600 brushless and a 1600 nmah. 15 min runtimes so I was starting to get back in it. Then I got a slash with a MM 6900. The simple plug and play really fired me up in the hobby. then I went back to nitro and the same thing happened again. So when I got my Pede (bone stock) It put a smile on my face every time. So I am not one to say Nitro sux. I still like it, the smells and sounds are awesome but my personal prefrence just comes down to electro. With the advancement of brushless and lipo getting 30 to 45 min runtime. Why the heck not, right! I think brushless is the reason I got into electro for the almost no maintence part of it.