the car looks totally bitchin but time will tell. I gotta see it on track before I make a determination. but you guys crack me up with the whole "engineer" stuff.....gerd builds elevators....thats a far cry from building race cars...one is metal boxes that carry people with no wheels on it and the other is 1:8 scale racing vehicles, pretty sure thats like oil and water. but he has had some good success with the 4wd electric cars over the past so i will be interested to see how Hupo does with it in actual races and not just test sessions.