There is another choice Richard, if you went 8th Electric it would be possible to use saddle packs from your existing tenth cars. There would still be outlay of new chassis, new 8th sized motor and ESC to power it all.
The outlay for 8th electric is initially expensive but as you've mentioned above it doesn't need the maintenance of a nitro engine. You don't have outlay for fuel or filters or that sort of thing. No starter box is needed either so it sort of balances out to a degree.
You're only real outlay per meeting is going to be tires which are about £15-£18 for 2, so that's already bumped the price of what you spend on tenth up. It would also depend on how often you're running it, on what surface and how competitive you want to be.
Get along to your local 8th track and have an ask around. See what people are using, how much they're spending a month.
If you're looking at getting going the Losi RTR 8ight buggy comes with everything, good radio, decent enough buggy to get you going although you could upgrade the servo's. You could probably sell the radio on as it's a decent Spektrum unit which would cover costs for new servo's.
If you're looking at buying it all individually I'd say you could spend between £800 and a £1000 easy, just to get you going. Hope that's of some help.
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