Chris, nice to see TD taking some interest in customer feedback
As a 'step up' from my previous ansmann X2c i found the build quite straight forward. I didn't know about the online manual being 'fixed' and just worked around the obvious mistakes in the one provided in the box. If it had been my first build of an RC car then it would have been quite confusing with the errors, so if wanting to appeal to 'newbies' then this needs sorting.
I dont think the spec is bad at all personally, ok it may not be upto the 410, but i have never had one so cant really compare.
As an out of the box 'race' ready car i think it hits the mark. I purchased the 401 stand offs, rear tower, steering link and the cream weight stuff, but this is part of the hobby. It would have worked out of the box, the option parts make it better.
I would say however if it had the option parts in it and the price was another £20-£30 more i would have probably looked more at the SV2.