Hi, I bought this new model because the old one that I bought in 2017 was becoming old and worn, and I preferred to leave this last one to my 6 years old daughter. I can tell that, just like it's former model, it is a super, super fast car, easily catching the posted speed, which is 52 km/h compared to the previous model's 48 km/h, and since it's a Four Wheel Drive compared to the two wheel propulsion drive of the old model, it catches the speed much more faster. It still can go around in shallow waters and splashes, and everything has been enhanced, in fact, apart from the casing which received superficial alteration, I find it a little less good looking but whatever, everything has been rebuilt, it is now very efficient in grass, where the former model was encountering some difficulties and be better avoid stopping anywhere in the grass for no reason and sometimes stay jammed. The new model is now litterally dominant in the grass. Even if slightly smaller, the new model is better in every aspect, knowingly the power, the speed, the batteries that are now rechargeable by USB. You can also tell the difference by the internal noise itself, where everything now became so silent. The system is so powerful that the car is fairly hard to handle in max speed, and the only slight inconvenience I found two months after purchasing it, is that the signal gets interferences when the car passes below the street's electrical wires and stop obeing for a few seconds, also sometimes when you play with both cars at the same time. The forward lights are new to me, in fact they stay on all the time, and are not really important in my opinion, since I never play in the dark, but it's up to the owner to figure out if they like that or not. But in overview, the former model was though, and so the new one. Maybe try to buy it from the original store, maybe you'll wait a month before receiving it rather than a day, but maybe you'll pay 100$ rather than 200$ like I did.