Strong plastic body to prevent scratching. It definitely a racing car and blinking lights give a feeling of actual racing. The remote control is easy to use, forward, back, left, right, with easy to understand controls. Most powerful motor of the cars you have ever seen in its class, has little trouble on thin carpet or going over small obstacles. The simple two-joystick remote control makes driving easy.With top-speed drift,top-speed moving forward &backward, turning left & right, extreme stop functions