I hope that everyone thinks that I am one of the good guys. That has always been my intent and I have tried my best to give honest and accurate advice from my knowledge and/or experience.

Yes, WE have to as a group need to work on getting newcomers into the hobby and wanting to stay and wanting to get their friends involved. From what I have seen in my humble opinion is Traxxas brings in tons of newcomers and WE push them back out of the industry for 100 different reasons.

Definitely not self serving in the long run, especially with a discretionary income based product in a bad economy.

Look at it this way, you are kicking around the idea of picking up golf or tennis and you read forums like this, would you want to do it?

Now I will say that anything motorsports related tends to be brand loyal...

Losi vs AE, AKA vs Panther, Maxamps vs Reedy, Tebo vs Drake, etc.....

just like Ford vs Chevy, Goodyear vs Firestone, Earnhardt vs Gordon, etc...

Honda vs Yamaha, Pirelli vs Maxxis, Reed vs McGrath, etc....