It’s been an unexpectedly lengthy and expansive journey for The Little Car Company’s Tamiya Wild One Max battery-electric UTV. Announced in 2021 and planned for sale in 2022, the pre-production ...

Japanese people know their toys, and there’s not one diecast collector out there that can tell you otherwise. Tamiya Corporation has been around ever since the end of World War II, so when they ...

There’s a natural progression for most young gearheads, anxious to get their hands on totemic representation of the cars and trucks they covet, but are still too young to legally own. It usually ...

The electrically powered model is a nearly-full-scale version of your childhood’s radio-controlled miniature buggy! It was de rigueur for the pampered child of the 1980s to own and enjoy a Tamiya ...

As an Autopian reader and former child, you probably at some point assembled at least one or two plastic model-kits with hopes to bring your four-wheeled fantasies into three-dimensional reality, even ...

If you were a child with an interest in radio-controlled cars back in the 1980s, then the name Tamiya Wild One probably rings some bells, as it was one of the many off-road-capable R/C toy kit cars ...

Alan became a 'professional' road tester in 2015, rising through the ranks to become head of automotive testing. He's written for a few different titles over the years, but has been with CAR magazine ...

Childish glee is still apparent in grown-ups, it just comes out in a lower register, as it turns out. Because this is the kind of car that reminds us all that being childish isn’t a bad thing at all.

Building and racing radio controlled cars is a strong and vivid childhood memory for me. Now my kids are getting a little older I've been keen to get them as enthused about these super-fast model kit ...

Well, this is unexpected. The radio controlled Tamiya Wild One is proving trickier to master than the full-size TWOM. Having spent most of the day at improbable angles in the Max, I’m now encrusted in ...

In Photo: The factory that every Tamiya enthusiasts wants to see. Story & Photos by Patrick P. Tulfo ADMIT it, during your pre-puberty years you once relished the thought of being trapped inside a ...

SHIZUOKA (Japan): Chairman of the Japanese plastic model kit maker Tamiya Inc., Shunsaku Tamiya, known for its radio-controlled cars and Mini 4WD models, has died, the company has announced. He was 90 ...