#Team sonic racing remote control car series

It was the first Tamiya car to use a polycarbonate body shell rather than the heavier and fragile moulded ABS of the previous cars. The car did feature a few groundbreaking innovations that became common in other RC cars, these were the introduction of the first hop-up RC motor the Mabuchi Black RS-540SD, fully adjustable flex/tweak chassis (including adjustable castor & ackerman, bulletproof ball raced sealed rear diff.), over-engineered sophisticated step-less MSC with microswitch and braking, to use the BEC radio gear and to come fully ball raced. This was Tamiya's further foray into building competition cars, hence the RM (Racing Master) tag that appeared on the box, the first of seven cars.

#Team sonic racing remote control car series

Can-Am Lola RM1, based on the T333 that Jacky Ickx used to win the reformatted Can-Am series in 1979.

It also featured a thicker chassis with different cast metal steering. The early models came equipped with the more powerful RS540 unit, as opposed to the standard RS380S, and sponge/diplo tyres, which were later adopted by competition cars of that size as opposed to rubber. Although released previously (58005) this model is the first to use the Competition Special tag, meaning that it is a hopped-up ( Hop-up meaning more powerful or souped-up ) version.

Lamborghini Countach LP500S (CS), the eighth car to be released by Tamiya (58008).

The potential market for easy to assemble electric radio-controlled model cars was clear and the 934 was soon followed by a kit of the Porsche 935. The Porsche 934 was a massive hit вЂ“ selling over 100,000 units in its first year. Its body was based upon an existing 1/12 scale static kit that Tamiya had already been manufacturing, so the effect was that of a traditional static model kit with the added ability to be radio-controlled вЂ“ something Tamiya acknowledged, as all of their early kit boxes carried the wording 'suitable for radio control'.

The first radio-controlled car to be released by Tamiya was a Porsche 934 in 1976.

Radio-controlled vehicles Cars (1/12 scale)

6 General-purpose simple-model construction sets.

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