yah, mine was like $300 too. my dd's are even less cause they're ecnoboxes.

i think the max that I am going to drive the z is 1,500 miles a year. I would only drive it on the weekends in beautiful weather, not on rainy days like today. my dad told me, that car is like your other 1/18th toy cars, it never gets driven :)

mick- yah, me too actually. :D i didn't wash either my G or Z once this year. :D ive used a lot of QD and a few times waterless washes, but that was it.

even my 6yr old G looks brand new still... about 26k miles, driven only a couple of times in the rain, never in snow. :)