Traxxas is a great backyard basher and their parts support is second to none, Traxxas has the market cornered on durability. Traxxas isn't competitive on a track against other brands but since you won't be racing that's a non-issue. Another thing you might want to check out is the new Traxxas trx4, it's a scale crawler with real axles and locking diffs and a bunch of cool options, it has a two speed trans that's controlled by the radio so you can crawl in first and rip around in second.
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