Hey, I'm not trying to slash the new car and I'm sure the plastic battery straps work fine. I'm just pointing out that it looks out of place on an completely CF car. It's more of a BLING thing
About design flaws and poor part quality of HPI : I'm still getting over my MT2 experience (a complete disaster in terms of track reliability, I'm very happy it's sold). I also have a Baja 5b and my opinion remains that it shows some serious design flaws like unacceptable wheel rub, easely torn tyres, desintegrating tyre inserts, bending shock shafts, ... but I'm happy to see that HPI is slowly addressing those issues.