My experience with the truggy is that they are WAY more fun then the buggy unless your going for all out speed, and the CRT .5 is a waste of time IMO...sorry to the diehards. I have a flux now in a quest to try the MONSTER part of this hobby. I also have some asperation to try the LST2. Truggy wise any money spent on the upper class of line of truggies is going to be well spent. I recently went to a skate park and took some seriously ugly landings and the only part that got destroyed was a MMM after the collapse and splitting of the stock body after a 12-15ft landing on the shell. Never saw this coming and the location of the MMM brought it to the end of its short life.
. Go figure the most expensive part to replace got toasted.
BTW the truggy I am running is a XT8 Xray and I bought it NIB for a little over $200 if I remember it correctly. It was the 2008 model but that doesnt matter to me as Im a basher.