Trust me. You are almost 100% where I was.
Maybe you should narrow down one car of every "type" that you'd want.
Buggy - Hyper 7?
Truggy - TTST-1?
MT - Savage, E-maxx, (could the e-revo be considered a MT?)
Smaller scale - BL mini E-revo, Rustler FLM (the idea we talked about)?