If I was in the market for a new budget truck, I'd get the sport for the $200 entry fee.
I'm a good example of the need for capable budget class crawlers. I'm 44yr old and never had an intrest in anything RC. Always been big into off-roading, dirtbikes, karting, etc. I've got 3 kids (boys 10,11 and girl 6). My boys ran across some RC rock crawling vids on YouTube, while watching a dirtbike video. They got interested in RC trucks and started learning about truck models and things. They wanted to get Redcat E10's. Initially I was against it because the Walmart RC cars / helicopters they've had in the past always end up broken in short order. There was no way I was going to spend $150 (x2) on another RC truck. They begged me for jobs they could do to earn money, so I put them to work and they earned the $150 each to order an E10. Their nonstop talking about them got me interested and they begged me to get one for myself to play with them. So we ended up ordering 3 E10's.
We've had them a few months and all three of us have gotten hooked. It's went from free tweaks to get the truck to perform better, to tires /wheels, servos, shocks, SCX10 chassis, making custom links, bodies, etc. We spend lots of time tweaking and driving the trucks, having fun and making memories. We have a house build going on and we literally spent from the time we woke up until dusk last Saturday on the huge piles of dirt from the basement dig, building roads and driving the trucks. I'm actually taking the left over parts and cruising the classifieds to put an E10 back together for my daughter to have her own truck.
We've probably spent enough to have bought 3 RTR SCX10's by now, but would've never gotten into the hobby at all if $300+ was the price of entry for 1 truck.
IMO, Redcat owns the entry level RC crawler space, and has to be bringing a lot of people like me into the hobby, that otherwise would've not seriously considered it. "thumbsup"
