Are you sure the people bringing in the MT2 are don't belong grouped with that 99% of the idiots on youtube can't drive and are fairly dumb to the hobby? The things are easy as hell to fix so if they got to bring them to you for repair they really are not much into the hobby.

I always see you trash HPI MT1 & 2's on the forums, I own 5 HPI products, and out of my MT1 and 2 I've not had a single problem (beyond the tie rods stripping which I listed as a Con in my original post) that can be chalked up to product design failure or premature parts failure.

Only time I had issues was on my 1st MT1, alot of parts did fail due to them being brittle, seeing the truck was made around 1998 I didn't have high hopes for the stock parts, but they took a fair amount of abuse before they broke, my nephews Stampede is 4 years old and broke a arm hitting a little bump on the street for contrast. Once I upgraded them mostly to MT2 parts not a single piece has broke and I've landed the thing at Full Throttle after jumps, hit 3 inch cement step (that was burried in grass) at full speed, landed it on its bumper after a jump, on the hood, and did a fair amount of other bad landings when I was first learning how to jump it and nothing broke from that abuse.

In the MT2 forum people are slapping 1/8th scale big blocks on the MT and MT2s and parts are not breaking so in all truth it has to be the idiots that go to the hobby shop your at that are the issue. You never even state if you tried one, so please if your going to say if something is crap base it on your user experience not what you see coming in for repair in a shop. I honestly don't understand why any RC has to go into a shop for repair they are so simple to work on.

By the way posts like yours is also why I originally said "My recommendation is goto the hobby shop closest to you, go on youtube and watch videos of most of the different trucks mentioned in this forum, read the different truck threads, and decide that way." The reason I said go to youtube was to see how much abuse they take and still work, not to watch how crappy they are at driving.


Now if you want to trash the HPI brama 10b go right ahead that thing is a royal piece of crap. Its build quality is almost on par with Tyco. This is coming from a owner of one, and has driven it, not someone that has just seen it in a shop for repairs or read how bad it was. (well I did read how bad it was and thought the reviews were exaggerating it, they weren't)


Also if you want might want to accuse me of being a HPI lover my next truck is going to be a Slash 4X4. It just so happened that HPI had designs I liked (outside the Brama) and Traxxas's design of the slash 4X4 is one I like.

(edited cause I forgot one word)