Hi Everyone.

I'm new to this area of rc, i flew competition with electric rc plyon racing for a few years and have done everything with the airborne stuff from nitro to gliders...

I've been looking over the best way to get into cars/trucks. I find myself ending up on the traxxas site looking at the jato 3.3 simply from the impressive video i've seen and the specs on it but a RTR package has never been something of interest to me... so i figured i'd ask you guys as i used to be an active member on some other forums and i know that there is a wealth of information on them. Here's where i stand:

1. I have no problem building form scratch
2. I want something that can handle more than just pavement but nothing too rough.
3. I'd prefer to go with Nitro as i have a couple buddies who own some cheap "RTR" nitro cars

One reason for building a kit would be to purchase a decent computer surface radio, i've always been a JR user and would like to continue that if i dont buy RTR. Basically i'm just looking for some direction as to what's really good on the market right now and how a built up kit will compare to these RTR packages from traxxas or anyone else.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Sean