Tamiya Wild One returns as road-legal electric buggy

The famed Tamiya Wild One remote-controlled car is returning arsenic a full-size, road-legal EV for 2024, acknowledgment to The Little Car Company, the British steadfast known for downscaled replicas of classics including the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa.

Dubbed the Tamiya Wild One Max, the electric buggy has been overhauled since its unveiling 2 years ago.

It present features much analyzable double-wishbone suspension astatine the front, wherever it antecedently utilized trailing arms, to amended handling.

It has besides been lengthened and widened by 0.1m (to 3.6m agelong and 1.9m wide) to much comfortably accommodate an big operator and rider successful its 2 Cobra bucket seats.

Range-topping Launch Edition models person high-tech hardware including Brembo disc brakes astatine each corner, Bilstein dampers, Eibach springs, a waterproof 5.0in instrumentality surface and 14in Maxxis off-road tyres. An optional windscreen will also beryllium available.

Although method specifications are yet to beryllium finalised, The Little Car Company claimed the Launch Edition volition beryllium susceptible of reaching astir 60mph and measurement astir 500kg. It volition beryllium powered by 8 removable artillery packs totalling 14.4kWh successful capacity.

It besides quoted competitive off-road credentials, including 270mm of crushed clearance, a 34.1deg attack angle, 28.4deg breakover space and a 50.8deg departure space – flexibility connected a par with the caller Ford Ranger Raptor.

It had antecedently quoted a 30mph apical velocity for the modular model, courtesy of a 5.5bhp motor, arsenic good arsenic a 25-mile range. It besides said the exemplary would beryllium upgradeable with optional modular powerfulness packs.

An optional battalion volition beryllium offered to marque the Wild One Max road-legal successful the UK, homologating it nether the L7e quadricycle regulations that let the Citroën Ami to beryllium driven connected nationalist roads.

The accumulation iteration of the Wild One Max volition beryllium revealed successful afloat aboriginal this year, pursuing the completion of durability and show testing.

Deliveries volition statesman successful aboriginal 2024, opening with the tally of 100 Launch Edition cars. 

Prices are yet to beryllium confirmed, but The Little Car Company’s erstwhile vehicles person been luxury goods: its Aston Martin DB5 Junior starts astatine £39,000 and the Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa J was £78,000 earlier shipping and taxes.