Near "hobby" quality under $100.I mostly play with things that fly, but the chance to try something like this out was one I couldn't pass up.Overall, I'm very impressed with the quality of the components. There's an actual "standard" size servo that can be replaced; the motor is nameless, but well built; and the receiver/esc actually have a conformal coating applied to be water resistant. Most of the time sub $100 RC stuff is no better than a cheap toy but this actually contends with some of the low end hobby grade stuff I have around my shop, especially given it uses metal drive train components some high end crawlers cheap out on.I'd say this is a perfect starter set for a kid interested in surface RC. Reliable lion batteries eliminate a lot of the "risk" that come's with LiPo cells, and everything is simplified. I handed it to my 8 year old and he had a blast and didn't kill it in an hour like most of the cheaper RC stuff.The worst part is the controller. It feels very cheap and sometimes feels quite sluggish in spite of the (nearly) zero slop in the control arms. While so far I've been careful not to drop it, I suspect it will be the first thing to break in the hands of my kids.