the 8ight and the hotbodies lighting are both great bashers with cheep parts, you should see some of the crashes i have had with my carbon 8ight and still nothing has broken
I'd buy a lightly used hyper 8Pro or 8,5Pro, and rc monster motormount and batt-tray. I hear good things about the durability, and mine is amazing. Love those spider diffs!
TG
I have the cars that I really wanted before I got them ;-)