I am sorry to hear you guys are having a problem reaching Speedmerchant. But you can buy from hobbyetc on line. I'll check and see if they have kits in stock and get back to you.
You wont be dissapointed with the car. I let a guy who has been struggling in 12th scale all year use my Rev.3 for the whole day last Sunday and he was pleasantly suprised how fast and especially how smooth the handling was. SO much easier to drive than his Carpet Knife and his modifed RC12L3. Some of that has to do with my car being very, very good right now. Its basically perfect as far as I am concerned. He went faster than 4 guys who regularly beat him every Sunday. So he basically moved from the middle of B to the bottom of the A-main with my car.