The nice thing about the SC-R SP is that it is a pure race truck out of the box, there's no upgrading and buying tuning kit's, your not swapping to another manufacturers shocks etc. Fit and finish is second to none, you'll pay a little more up front but it was well worth it to me. As far as part's availability I don't even use that as a factor for the simple fact that unless your lawn darting it every lap you don't need a bunch of spares because it's built from quality materials to start with...Great now I'm going to break a part on mine at the next race