Hobby quality radio control rc cars and trucks are fast growing in popularity over toy remote control cars you find in stores because they feature fast, highly realistic, tunable, and powerful nitro engines and electric motors, tunable suspensions, and have average speeds of 35 to 45 mph for the offroad rc cars and trucks while some onroad rc car kits that are made strictly for top speed can reach 70+ mph straight out of the box.

The most popular class of vehicles for your needs is dependent upon your intended use.  Off road radio controlled cars and trucks allow you to race almost anywhere and can handle the abuse of large jumps and uneven terrain, while onroad r/c cars are built for the ultimate in speed.

You have a choice between a nitro or electric, onroad or offroad, and ready to run or

build it yourself kits.

Traxxas, and CEN Racing make excellent kits for both beginners and pros but HPI Racing,  make pretty good kits as well as few others.  Traxxas specializes in ready to run radio controlled cars and trucks.  HPI offers popular racing and ready to run kits like the HPI Savage.  You can visit www.rcToysandCars.com for more information of either of these.