Thanks guys,
Yeh Slowone I hear you and agree but you kind of answered in the way I was trying to avoid, I knew it would be said but I just wanted to get down to brass tacks on what is an ideal purchase. You can't drive a car with no motor and esc using purely skill, one combo or another has to be in the car.
You might be a total newb to racing, you might be born to race and pick it up instantly, you might be seasoned in other classes.
On top of this you might be a teenager spending your saturday jobs wages on this or you might be a company director with money to burn etc.
You might be looking to buy the more expensive gear second hand on eBay or here on Oople, you might not.
Agreed again on practice, agreed a good driver can win with anything in the right environment but again a purchase of some type has to be made.
The point was all the above aside what would people recommend on the budgets I put forward which for me represent the kind of budgets we might or would actually be forced to have when buying new.
Please take nothing negative from this, as I'm typing smiling but just wanted my question to be read in the right way