You may not want to spend hours and hours trying to beat the Nurb sector and lap times so buying is definitely an option. One downside is, there are few places to race it online. Rare to see a room that allows race cars of that class, usually it's something better or GT500. Lots of cars like that, that are great cars, but rarely raced online. I have all of them and they look real pretty in the garage...lol.