2 MAIN Questions you wanna ask.

1) What's your budget? What do you wanna spend on a car? That'll narrow down your choices quite a bit.

2) Do you want shaft or belt? Isn't a huge diff in either one. Belts are more succeptable to rocks.

You can ask which is the "BETTER" drifter, but that's purely opinion. Practice is what makes you good. Not the car. My PERSONAL opinion is that if you can afford a Yok RTR kit, go for that. You're not getting your car from your local hobby shop anyway, so why worry about what it carries. You don't have to get any extra parts or hop-ups for it, so the "LHS" not carrying it is a mute point.

TT01's, Yokomo drift, Hpi Sprint 2 drift : all 3 have great aftermarket support. Yokomo has the best customer service I've EVER dealt with.

Radios, esc's, motors, and things of that nature aren't brand specific so you can get'em at any LHS. And that's the only things you may be swiching a lot depending on your performance needs.

Again, best is relative. Cheapest is the TT01 (but needs a lot of hop-ups) most expensive is Yokomo (drifts outta the box). That's my $.02