if your a basher the savage gets my vote hands done, its likely the toughest truck on the market,grab a ss kit and you can build it yourself and the ss kits come with upgrades right in the box that you would likely be doing in the future anyway were as the rtr kits are just the "economy"version without the extra's and with the ss kits you get to build it yourself and will know every inch of you truck and there pretty straight forward to build!! just a thought!! lol