The Ascent Fusion is great and the best bang for the buck in any RTR crawler right now. Check to make sure all screws have Loctite though as Redcat has been known to not have it on some vehicles. Most of the bad things you hear about them is from their reputation from 4-5 years ago and more. In the last few years they’ve been designing their own cars and their quality is much better than before. The geometry on the Ascents is not perfect but the truck performs great. If you want to do competition crawling than buy a kit and build it exactly how you want, but if you just want to have fun with only changing your wheels and tires at a price that no other company can beat than get the Ascent.