[Finnster]

I've driven few MTs now and I think I've found the one I'll really keep.
While back it was a maxx. Fragile little thing broke easy, and it was a pain to work on. Frakin money pit to be reliable. Revo was much much better, but was still hard to work on in some ways. To service diffs half the truck had to be taken apart, and the getting into the tranny was also surgery. Handles quite well on the track tho and a pretty good off roader.

I got a muggy, liked the pan chassis layout and buggy style CD. Its a good and tough truck mind you, but IDK, just doesn't get me. The flat chassis looses ground clearance for really rough areas, and otherwise just seems too much like my racing truggy to be the goto basher for what I want. Seems easy to work on tho. Big + there.

Now the XL drives over everything. So far I've taken it over things I thought I'd surely get stuck in. Nope. With those huge terrapins, the clearance is just ungodly. I had heard not so great things with those tires (too tall) but really I was quite happy the way it handles. I mean you are not going to be doing high speed slalom with them, but thats what trugs are for. It is quite stable, I and roll it rarely. It really drives like a huge monster truck.

Now I almost got a Cen Genesis. Also seems like a heck of a truck, but the LHS has tons of HPI/savvy parts.

The only really annoying thing is having to take apart the tranny to adj the 2nd gear cent clutch. Fortunately the tranny has a top half that comes apart w/ minimal screws. The bottom half (inc drivelines and brake gear) are left untouched, so its not too bad. Not something you'd mess w/ all the time. Otherwise its normal Sav stuff. The tank gets lean @ 1/2, but all parts are beefy and tough out of the box. I'm sure the really hard bashers can find a way to break anything, but in stock form I'm quite impressed. No obvious weaknesses.

Ideally I'd like to drop the tranny all together and put in a simple CD or slipperential when it comes out, and do a std type bulkhead motor mount. I'm working on a CAD for it now, but its not a rush to convert it. The nitro is quite fun once you get it tuned and warmed up, but just getting to that point can be such a hassle, not to mention all the noise if you just want to go out in the neighborhood for a quick spin. Plus for a thing that's supposed to be gas powered, I seem to carry alot more battery operated items, on top of the needed sack of tools and fuel bottles. WTH? lol