^^ good choice, you will be defo dissapointed if you go with ACME or Nitrotek, pile of crap, although i have heard there 1/5th scales are not as bad as the nitro/leccy models off them but still hard for parts and a pain in the arse when it comes to customer care, none of your local stores would stock parts either. take a look at hpi/losi/thunder tiger/kyosho all decent bits of kit with easily available spares and customer care, not to mention many people own or have owned the same car(s) as yourself so will be able to help with every little detail.
Himoto isnt a brand ive ever had experience with or heard of a great deal of before from what ive searched i think these fall into the same categary as nitrotek and ACME, cheap and nasty and hard to get hold of spares, upgrades and would be hard getting help as many peeps on here and down at your local hobbyshop would of drove/repaired these things before, i would go for the TS-4N by thunder tiger which is a steal at that price, there are 2 options to choose from either a 129.99 version which will be quick enough for a newbie or a 3.5 version for 169.99 which will go much better but also have a chance of breaking your new car if you get to throttle happy....
have you not considered a stadium truck or something which can go on road but also deal with the mud/rough stuff once in a while?? theres even some 1/8th scale monster trucks i.e. Thunder tiger MTA4 S28 on jepsares for under