Check out Acme condor pro on google. These are well in your price range, however they are usually slated on these forums. I will tell you why...for the same reason you were getting stupid remarks at the beginning of this thread...most people on this forum fall into one of two catagories people who know nothing and pretend to, and people who know something and are have loads of money to spend!!!

The people who know nothing will buy a cheap car and trash the engine because they dont know what they are doing and then slate it. The people sho know lots expect that everyone can afford the top of the range models.

I have an acme condor pro and it drives well. It will need the occational part but these are easily avaliable on 24 hour delivery. For the price (which includes the radio and servos and everything you need) you really cant go wrong.

It sounds like this would be perfect for you.

Hope I have helped you at last mate.

Adam_Fozz

PS Also try an ebay search for good deals on this car.