The best thing to do is go to your local hobby store find out what brands they carry a far as kits and parts. You'll be better off in the long run if you buy some thing that you can get parts for locally rather than waiting for parts to ship from a web site. I see slot of folks who want to buy a specific car with no reguards to how to support the car with parts. They say "I'll just order them on the web". These are ususlly the same people who come back a few weeks later to complain that they have to wait for parts all the time. Imagine having a whole day of drifting/bashing planned and then breaking a part, then having to wait to get the part shipped to you, doesn't sound like fun huh? Like 13BT said asking here is not the greatest as people will vote for just about every model of car under the sun. Narrow it down to the cars you feel you can support and then ask opinions about the choices you have.