While xray is a "luxary" car, it really isnt that much more expensive than any other car on the market, the cyclone and tamiya cars are both more expensive (the tamiya being considerably more), the the t2 is still on its first batch of cars, and the problems are relativly small and only expearianced by a minority of people, if you have an issue call up the company and I am sure they are willing to deal with the minor teething problems, xray has great support in addition to making great cars.