Good choice slammer, I don't think that you were the only one in that boat of indecisiveness. I too was there but when I looked at how good the Mugen has been to me over the past two years, I couldn't go wrong. We aren't blowing servos, leaking shocks and tearing up clutches like the Losi camp. My 5R went together really nice and I think it will be everybit as good as my old car. Hope it hooks up the same. I haven't ran it yet- it's been together for 3 weeks now. Snowing today and my track has about 6 inches of water on it.