if you have an older car but still needs to improve on driving because you need practice, I say stick with what you got. If you are confident in your driving abilities and are going strictly for spec, stock or mod class, you're better off getting a nice expensive car so that you can tweak and tune it to your driving style. You need to drive that car and know the in and outs of that car so that you can make educated guess when you race on different tracks with different road conditions. Some tracks have more grip and while some are wide open in which using a spool is key to being 1st place A-Main. It took me almost a whole year just to feel comfortable with my car and the different setup. You have roughly 3 yrs to play with the car till something new comes out...and it's not necessarily for the better. If you run VTA, cars like the tc3 is still a good car.