I have little experience with the Redcats except for my Redcat RS10 crawler. I wasn't sure if I wanted a crawler but bought this one and am hooked. The RS10 has been a great crawler (with the exception of the stock battery, but those are always junk in RTR's). I have since bought a different one but still like to run the redcat on occasion. I am unforntunately going to sell (lmk if any one is interested) it to offset the cost of the e-maxx I just bought.