I don't know, kind of on the fence about getting it. Quality wise, as long as they build it like the old one, there won't be any problems. The old one was always kind of an oxymoron in my opinion; kind of reminded me of a German luxury car. Absolutely nothing "cheap" about it. Super well put-together, nearly on the level of Marklin, imho. But it was so overly complex that there were bound to be problems. Again, those problems arose from complexity and slight oversights in engineering, not from it being a cheaply thrown together hunk of junk, by any means.
People tend to assume that if something has problems than it must be "cheap". I can assure both from my experience with the Acela and with German cars that that is absolutely not always the case. Something can be of the highest quality, but have problems stemming from its being so over-engineered that other problems have been caused in the process.
In the end, though, I'm an engineer who loves solving technical problems, so the original Acela is basically the ultimate "mountain to be climbed" within model railroading, at least!
