I'm working at a hobby store right now, and it seems that people really like the Futaba radio transmitters. People order them much more often that the other kinds (even the $1500 Futaba 12Z transmitter).
Remember you have to be careful about the frequency of radio you pick, surface or air. Air has more channels but it's illegal to use an air radio for a surface vehicle (like a car or boat). YOu might want to try the Spektrum radios. They are frequency hopping 2.4GHz radios instead of a single fixed frequency (controlled by the crystal in the transmitter and receiver). YOu can also get frequency synthesizer modules so you don't need so many crystals for the regular surface/air radios.
As long as the channels in the area are not full of corldess phone signals and other such signals, you should be okay.
I personally prefer the HItec servos because they have really powerful digital servos with titanium gears compared to other manufacturers. Futaba is my next choice, and then JR. Meaning, that I always go with HItec.
Some people swear by Hitec, or Futaba, or JR, or whatever. I choose HItec for servos because their top end servos are what I am looking for. If I had to buy a radio, I'd probably go Spektrum if I needed a manually controlled radio(but since I don't fly planes or drive trucks, I end up using other things like Zigbees for wireless automated control.) But for manual control, I like Spektrum.
(I don't know about the radio laws or availiblity of products in your area).