I also run RCGT, locally, in Athens, Greece...
Since scale is the point... I dug my old HPI Sprint GTI and dressed it up like a Peugeot 106 Rallye, even if the body is really of an 106 Maxi.
The inspiration came from my best friend's real 106, and I "copied" it right down to the license plates!!! The mirrors came off an old Tamiya FF01 Toyota Levin!
Chassis is stock, motor is a Nosram 17.5T, ESC is SP LPF1.1, batteries are whatever handy lipo 2S.