That's true, but once you get used to not stabbing the throttle you can control it on the dirt just fine. I have 3 friends that bought rustlers after I did and they have upgraded them too we go to skate parks and school fields. We all have Lipo and 5k batteries and can run for more than 20 minutes. I'll take a few pics, I have adapters for mounting 1/8th scale foams on them the're a lot of different things to them. They are the camaro and mustang of the RC world.

They do make a 4WD version of the rustler.