I am sure that if there was a Pepsi Challenge done with R/C cars people would be rather suprised! lol. (ie have people drive cars without knowing what car they are actually driving...)

But yes, if you have run two cars side by side for a good period of time, and know what you are doing then i completly agree. But if you bought a used tc3 a few years ago, ran it for some time, then bought a new xxx-s, then i would probably assume for most people that they would prefer the xxx-s just because they didnt realize how off their tc3 was, and a brand new tc3 (or a well maintained one) would probably be just as amazing to that person, but most of the time people dont understand that, lol.