I got a wee RC car from Toys'r'Us one christmas when I was a kid but I burnt the motor out within a couple of hours.. so that got taken back and was replaced with:
...which was absolutely ace. Took 8 rechargeable AA batteries, so always had a spare 8 ready-charged batteries ready and a charger with another 8 batteries on the go while I was playing with it. But that went almost everywhere from memory, down the stairs, over the garden wall, into numerous obstacles.
Got it in the attic somewhere, might look it out.
Cheers,
Grant