I myself had been away from the hobby for 16 odd years and after much searching decided on the Kyosho, initial impressions are very good, ive only run it for about 1.5hrs total after doing the running in and initial stumbling block of troubles starting it.. whihc goes with any new nitro i hasten to add. I had rolled it a good couple of times and my 5 year old ran it into some goal posts and its still in one piece. Once I get back home and run it some more im going to update this thread. I live in Jersey Channel Islands but fortunatly I've found a contact on Guernesy who has very close links with kyosho so have a decent parts supply whihc is good as getting stuff to Jersey can be a pain in the bottom at times