I honestly wouldnt know much about the first lst, but the lst2 has been very good to me. If you look at losi they changed things to make things better what have they done with most of the cars traxxas sells. I do realize they are toys and they will break, but somethings are expected to break unlike others. Sometime I feel like they didnt do enough testing when they put the e-Revo together they figured the nitro stuff would work fine. Maybe that is one of the reasons that the xxl isn't brushless because it would rip the thing apart. I guess as a whole with marketing and product pricing traxxas will never fall off the map because its the bang for you bug, and i guess if I never ran my revo on 6s I would have never had a problem.