I have always been kind of partial to Associated RC stuff except when I was running dirt oval then there is no other that can compair to Custom Works sprint cars and latemodels. when I first got into off road I had the 2WD associated sct but quickily wanted to get into the 4x4 class so sold it and got a new associated 4wd SCT and ran it a couple times and loved how it handled I could turn it no matter where I hit a corner it jumped nice and other than I hated the belt drive and morking on it was a royal pain in the azz. However my brother had same truck and hated it, and got a Tenscte 4x4 and sold the other, I liked how his was so simple to work on anything on it and soon got rid of the associated and got one of these as well. and I like it very much I cant turn it as well as my other 4x4 but I think that is just my driving and some setup adjustments needed. All in all I am glad I ended up with it over the associated.