Tamiya Wild One returns as £35,000 road-legal electric buggy

The Tamiya Wild One radio-controlled car – a mainstay of the 1980s artifact container and highly collectable contiguous – has been turned into the full-sized, road-legal electrical dune buggy of your dreams.

Available to bid from £35,000, the Wild One Max is the enactment of Bicester-based The Little Car Company, known for its downsized EV reworkings of iconic classics similar the Ferrari 250 TR and Bugatti Type 35.

It's a faithful tribute to its pint-size namesake, albeit with immoderate concessions to real-world usability, including a widened, two-seat cockpit, shorter suspension turrets and – crucially – windscreen wipers.

Power is supplied by 8 swappable artillery packs totalling 14.4kWh and giving astir 120 miles of range. Weight is 500kg and apical velocity is pegged astatine 62mph.

Meanwhile, with 270mm of crushed clearance, an attack space of 34.1deg and a 50.8deg departure angle, it promises to support up with Land Rover Defenders and Jeep Wranglers connected the unsmooth stuff.

Held to the aforesaid L7e quadricycle regulations arsenic the Citroën Ami, it can present beryllium ordered successful left- oregon right-hand thrust form ahead of transportation successful aboriginal 2024.

As standard, it gets Cobra bucket seats with four-point harnesses, adjustable Bilstein dampers, Eibach springs, a 5.0in cardinal screen, a reversing camera and a 'giant sticker sheet' – conscionable similar the archetypal – of retro-style decals to apply.

The archetypal 100 buyers volition get a Launch Edition battalion with a carbonfibre dashboard plaque, 'hologram' instrumentality designs and a matching 1/10th-scale Wild One to play with astatine home. 

The Wild One Max was shown connected the Eibach basal astatine this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed.