RE: Little Car Company Tamiya Wild One MAX
Discussion
geeks said:
Deposit placed.....
Ha, you're going to be in the doghouse. I have done the same though, will wait and see what the demand is like for them as I can see it being just like the Tamiya RC I built a couple of years back, great fun to build but saw about 2 hours use and is now on display. If the demand is there then it could be one to just enjoy building and sell, but I'll bet most people are in the same boat where the build is likely to be the main draw.
badgerracing said:
Yup - that's the plan. L6e quadricycle (mostly for France where they have some odd rules) is 4kW max.
UK L7e is 15kW Continuous which will be much more fun. And that's the plan. We'll have a range of motors, we're just starting with the base spec to keep the price as low as possible
Ben (The Little Car Company)
Thanks for the reply Ben, are these what Dean Lanzante had in the show room? (He was a school buddy and we had Tamiya cars)UK L7e is 15kW Continuous which will be much more fun. And that's the plan. We'll have a range of motors, we're just starting with the base spec to keep the price as low as possible
Ben (The Little Car Company)
I have a Twizy in camo wrap and can see me ordering one of these if you can get road legal.
PhantomPH said:
I came here to say exactly the same thing. The price felt like a misprint compared to other LCC products (which are great, btw!)
Thank you!We went for a Tamiya as it's much simpler and easier to build so we could get the price down to more affordable levels.
The challenge with the Baby II and the DB5 is that putting the same dials in a 66% DB5 as you get in a 100% DB5 isn't 66% of the price. Because we try to include all the detail it just massively adds up in terms of cost so we can't keep the price down without cutting loads of corners which we didn't want to do. And would have been disrespectful of the original as well.
Caddyshack said:
Thanks for the reply Ben, are these what Dean Lanzante had in the show room? (He was a school buddy and we had Tamiya cars)
I have a Twizy in camo wrap and can see me ordering one of these if you can get road legal.
Nope - Lazante did some brilliant full sized ones a few years back, but we took a new approach.I have a Twizy in camo wrap and can see me ordering one of these if you can get road legal.
We went for 80% scale because we figured out of we did 100%, it would be about 2.2m wide!
We chose the Wild One as it was the last of the anatomically correct cars. We love the Hornet and others, but we can't yet figure out how to fit a decent sized adult in without making it huge. But watch this space...we are trying to figure it out.
And we're definitely going to make it road legal.....
badgerracing said:
Caddyshack said:
Thanks for the reply Ben, are these what Dean Lanzante had in the show room? (He was a school buddy and we had Tamiya cars)
I have a Twizy in camo wrap and can see me ordering one of these if you can get road legal.
Nope - Lazante did some brilliant full sized ones a few years back, but we took a new approach.I have a Twizy in camo wrap and can see me ordering one of these if you can get road legal.
We went for 80% scale because we figured out of we did 100%, it would be about 2.2m wide!
We chose the Wild One as it was the last of the anatomically correct cars. We love the Hornet and others, but we can't yet figure out how to fit a decent sized adult in without making it huge. But watch this space...we are trying to figure it out.
And we're definitely going to make it road legal.....
I have signed up to the .com page and will prob reserve a build slot, I wanted to know if others like hotshot were in the pipeline before ordering but I think you have answered that and can always sell on a Wild One.
Oh jeez... that’s so cool! That’s the second Tamiya RC I had as a kid after the Hornet, and before the Avante (sun-zero) then the Astute. I don’t think there wasn’t a cool Tamiya.
I can see why this one was picked from a practical point of view. Plus, it was one of the more “realistic” models and not fantasy car.
Tempted... sooo tempted. But really, what would I do with it?
I can see why this one was picked from a practical point of view. Plus, it was one of the more “realistic” models and not fantasy car.
Tempted... sooo tempted. But really, what would I do with it?
I'll admit I don't get this one.
The Tamiya buggies were typically copies of 1970s sand rails, so why not just have one of those instead? This is a copy of a copy of a copy, and just doesn't do it for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandrail
The Tamiya buggies were typically copies of 1970s sand rails, so why not just have one of those instead? This is a copy of a copy of a copy, and just doesn't do it for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandrail
To make it an automatic yes, from me it would have to be a Bigwig.
I'd work out where I could use it afterwards.
But a roa legal one...? Thats far too tempting so take my deposit and get a shufty one!
As I've opted for self assembly, could you deliver it in a crate, all black with Beatties logo, etc written down the side, please?
I'd work out where I could use it afterwards.
But a roa legal one...? Thats far too tempting so take my deposit and get a shufty one!
As I've opted for self assembly, could you deliver it in a crate, all black with Beatties logo, etc written down the side, please?
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