I HATE THEM WITH A PASSION.

i managed a store that sold precious, shen, and panthers, and other peices of crap clones.

my rating system is based on playing, fixing, destroying, experimenting and modifying these damned clones.
1= crap!
2= more crap!!
3= crapcrapcrapcrapCRAP!!!

1= shen
2= panther
3= precious

Why?

the defect rate is higher for the precious brand
out of the hundred preciouss i have played with... the steering SUCKED in ALL of them.
whenever a customer brought in a defected precious... 45% of the time it was fixable.
the bodies were ok.
the speed was fast.. in fact we would randomly get these fast purple back motors (a MUST have)
but there was no point in having so much speed and wak steering...
most of the defects were defective wheels...
overall... the precious brand is poorly manufactured and you can judge that because it looks like the transmitters were defective and refurbished, repackaged and sold to suckers.


panthers... they are so-so... somewhat dependable (for a clone)
its #2 because the defect rate was not too bad.
and plus... they came in that mysterious 40MHz frequency

shen qi wei...
defect rate is less than the precious
90% of the time defective shens were easily repairable
speed was an average 2.2 to 2.6
steering is suprisingly good
in fact when my store was first introduced to the shens
we were actually worried that our TOMY BitChar-G sales
would decrease.... and they did decrease.
in one word that describes the shens performance
"smooth"
i have tested about 20 different clones.. from bitChar-A to LXX to micro Qs to precious to fitracer to... the list goes on... and Shen Qi Wei is overall the best clone.
the store i used to manage "micro hobbies unlimited"
sells the shens for 9.95