Its a real nice car your right. I have been eyeballing them for awhile. I had a tc4 and it was nice but on brushless I couldnt get the diffs right for some reason, however a spool in the front helped a bit. Its pretty durable, I crashed mine quite a few times. I was thinking about getting the tc5r as well but its gotta be durable since Id just be doing speed runs and parking lot fun which is I think what your aiming for as well.