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Plasma-Dash Motor

The **Plasma-Dash Motor** (Japanese: プラズマダッシュモーター, *Purazuma Dasshu Mōtā*) is a Mini 4WD motor manufactured by SGM and released by Tamiya on December 17, 1996.

It is currently the most powerful motor Tamiya has ever released.

## General Info

The motor has the gray-color endbell cap and black-coated metal housing with the Tamiya motor sticker on it. Unique to this motor is the redesigned metal housing, which dissipates heat from inside the motor, resulted in prolonged running life of the motor despite its monstrous performance.

It uses carbon brushes, which is user-replaceable (with the Plasma Dash Brush Holder Set AO parts) without having to dismantle the motor.

The spec of the Plasma Dash Motor is higher than any Mini 4WD motors Tamiya ever released, not even the official-tournament-approved Sprint Dash Motor and Power Dash Motor can keep up.

Due to its overwhelming performance, this along with the Ultra Dash Motor and Jet-Dash Motor has since been banned from Tamiya-sanctioned races.

## In other media

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

The Plasma-Dash Motor was added at one of the obtainable parts in the time-limited "Historical Racers Gather 2024" event. Up to two Plasma-Dash Motors can be obtained during the event.

The motor is a Straight+ attribute parts (thus suitable with a Straight+ bodyshell), with speed of 3140 points and 2075 points of power, but with the sub-parameters of 4600 points of power consumption and 1800 points of gear loads.

As with real-life, the use of Plasma-Dash Motor in certain races, including the GP season races, are prohibited.
Tamiya Corporation

**Tamiya Incorporated** (株式会社タミヤ, *Kabushiki gaisha Tamiya*) is a Japanese manufacturer of plastic model kits, radio controlled cars, battery and solar powered educational models, sailboat models, acrylic and enamel model paints and various modeling tools and supplies. The company was founded by Yoshio Tamiya in Shizuoka, Japan, in 1946.

Tamiya started off as a lumber mill, whose wood products division was also producing wooden models of ships and airplanes; they have since stopped the sale of architectural lumber and focused solely on model making. In the late 1950s they started manufacturing plastic models, the first one being *Yamato* in 1959. Besides gaining a reputation amongst hobbyist and wargaming circles for manufacturing accurate models of both military and civilian vehicles, Tamiya is also extremely well-known for inventing the Mini 4WD line of cars, whose easy-to-assemble models ensured its popularity with children in Japan and overseas; a precursor line called the Quick Racer was released by Tamiya in 1968. The Quick Racer was rear-wheel drive only and used a different motor form factor, but it had a similar mechanical layout to modern Mini 4WD cars, thus setting the template for future models.

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Super XX Chassis

The **Super XX Chassis** (Japanese: スーパーXXシャーシ, *Sūpā Daburuekkusu Shāshi*) is a Mini 4WD chassis released by Tamiya in November 2009. It debuted with the release of Max Breaker Black Special.

## General info

The Super XX Chassis is the improved version of the Super X Chassis.

While the front bumper itself remain unchanged, an additional front nose guard can be attached to widen the front bumper as well as provide frontal protection. The center parts and the side-guards were strengthen and in case of the side-guards, additional attachment holes has been added. Instead of the two-hardpoint rear stay, it comes with the newly-designed one-hardpoint rear stay with additional attachment holes.

Much like its predecessor, the Super XX Chassis allows easy access to the motor by removing the under motor cover. The official regulations prohibit the use of pink or carbon helical crown gears with Super XX Chassis.

Overall, the Super XX has greater adaptability and more rigid than the Super X.

## Colors

### Chassis frame

* Black - First equipped with Max Breaker Black Special.
* White - First equipped with Rising-Trigger White Special.
* Clear blue - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Smoke - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Red - First equipped with Dyna-Hawk GX Super XX Special.
* Carbon gray - First equipped with Laser-Gill Super XX Special.
* Light blue - First equipped with Shadow Breaker Z-3 Super XX Special.
* Dark blue - First equipped with Knuckle Breaker Blue Special.
* Fluorescent Green - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Fluorescent Pink - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Marine blue - First equipped with Cross-Tiger VR Sea Blue Version.
* Fluorescent Yellow - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Fluorescent Orange - First released as a Grade-up Parts.

### A parts

* Dark gray - First equipped with Max Breaker Black Special.
* Purple - First equipped with Thunder Shot Open Top.
* White - First equipped with Rising-Trigger White Special.
* Clear blue - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Smoke - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Red - First equipped witth Dyna-Hawk GX Super XX Special.
* Metallic gray - First equipped with Laser-Gill Super XX Special.
* Light blue - First equipped with Shadow Breaker Z-3 Super XX Special.
* Dark blue - First equipped with Knuckle Breaker Blue Special.
* Fluorescent Green - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Fluorescent Pink - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Marine blue - First equipped with Cross-Tiger VR Sea Blue Version.
* Fluorescent Yellow - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
* Fluorescent Orange - First released as a Grade-up Parts.
Toyota Land Cruiser (Team ACP)

* 1989
* 1990

The **Toyota Land Cruiser (Team ACP)** (Japanese: トヨタ ランドクルーザー (チームACP パリダカ仕様), *Toyota Rando Kurūzā (Chīmu E ̄ shi ̄ pi ｰ paridaka shiyō)*) is a Original Mini 4WD that was released on July 29, 1989.

It was based on Team ACP Tamiya's own Toyota Land Cruiser J70 Dakar rally car that was used in the Dakar Rally.

## General info

The Land Cruiser rally car features the 2-door classical SUV design, with a pair of circle-shaped headlamp on the front. The car's bodyshell has the tricolor of white, red and blue, with the cyan strips. Various real-life sponsor's decals (Tamiya included) can be found on around the bodyshell.

It was equipped with the special set of wheels and tires that were designed for it.

## About Team ACP's Toyota Land Cruiser

Team ACP participates into the Group T2.2 (diesel-only) class race in the Dakar Rally with the Toyota Land Cruiser. As cars in Group T2 is the near-stock car class, the BJ74V J70 Land Cruiser was only modified to includes additional lamps.

The BJ74V is a medium-wheelbase, 2-door variant of the J70 series, and is powered by Toyota's 3.5 liter 13B-T straight-4 turbo-diesel engine which is mated to a 5-speed manual gearbox.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of Paris-Dakar.Boxart of '90 Paris-Dakar.
## See also

### Toyota cars

* Toyota Hilux 4x4
* Toyota Hilux Monster Racer Jr.
* Toyota 4Runner
* Toyota Rav4
* Toyota Hilux Surf SSR-G
* Toyota Ipsum L-Selection EX
* Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ
* Toyota Land Cruiser 100 Wagon
* ZENT Tom's Supra
* Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid
* Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT/Yaris WRC
* Toyota GR Supra
* Toyota GR Yaris

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Toyota Land Cruiser '90 Paris-Dakar at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Toyota Land Cruiser '90 Paris-Dakar at Tamiya America
Dash-X5 Shadow Emperor

## In Fictional Media

### **Owner**

Jigokumaru Enma

The **Dash-X5 Shadow Emperor** (Japanese: ダッシュX5 影皇帝シャドーエンペラー, *Dasshu Ekkusu Faibu Shadō Enperā*) is a fictional Mini 4WD car appear in the manga and anime *Dash! Yonkuro*.

Being one of the Proto Dash machines, it was belongs to Jigokumaru Enma, a current member of the Mie Prefecture's Ninja Warriors racing team.

## General info

The Shadow Emperor shares the similar body design with other Proto Dash machines, except with some key differences.

A pair of cycle wings protruded from the side fenders, covering the rear of the front wheels.There's a pair of 3-roll exhaust pipes prop protruded from the sides of the rear.

## In media

### *Dash! Yonkuro*

In the series, it is implies that Jigokumaru was given the Shadow Emperor by Kaidanji Sumeragi during the time he was the team member of a team that Sumeragi founded. A while after the team was disbanded, Jigokumaru moved to Mie Prefecture to being trained as a ninja, under the guidance of a unnamed ninja master and become a member of Ninja Warriors racing team.

His team face off against the Dash Warriors in the second round of the National tournament. In the heated battle against Yonkuro's Super Emperor, Jigokumaru and his team ultimately lose as Yonkuro's Super Emperor reached the finish line first by a margin of the front bumper.

The Shadow Emperor has better stability.

Although Jigokumaru outright stating that he has abandoned the Horizon lineage his car has in the series, it is unknown what modification he made to the Shadow Emperor.

## Gallery

### Artworks

Line-art by Hiroyuki Takei.
ZENT Tom's Supra

The **ZENT Tom's Supra** (Japanese: ZENT トムス スープラ, *Zento Tomusu Sūpura*) is a R/C Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on October 30, 2002. The standalone assembly kit without the R/C system was later released on November 16 in the same year.

It was based on Toyota Team TOM'S's 3-tones Toyota Supra GT race car (dubbed as ZENT Tom's Supra, car number 37) that was used in the 2002 season of the Super GT (The then-All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship).

## General info

The Supra features the long-nose, 2-by-2 coupe sports car body design, with a rear spoiler on the rear. The race car version of the Supra has wider body compare to the road-legal Supra.

Several manufacturer decals can be seen on the bodyshell, including TOM's, ZENT and TRD (Toyota Racing Development, Toyota's own tuning shop brand.). It is mainly in the 3-tone color consist of red, silver and black.

It was equipped with the white, small diameter RC-type wheels with the black RC slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black and gray respectively. It is available in either a standalone assembly kit or a bundle with a R/C system.

## About Toyota Team TOM'S's Toyota Supra GT

The Toyota Supra GT race car, introduced in 1995, was based on the fourth-generation A80 Toyota Supra sports car. The race car was build for the GT500 race class. One of the Toyota Team TOM'S's Supras in the 2002 Super GT season sports the 3-tone color consists of red, silver and black and bears the car number 37.

The Supra GT was powered by a 2.0 Liter Toyota S-series 503E inline-4 turbocharged petrol engine (fitted with a 45.3 mm restrictor due to Super GT regulation) that is capable of produces about 480 horsepower at 6,800 rpm and 471 lb·ft at 4,500 rpm. The engine was mated to a Hewland-sourced 6-speed manual gearbox which then transfers the power to the rear wheels. The car was supports by all-wheel independent, double-wishbone suspensions setup.

For the 2002 season, the ZENT Tom's Supra was mostly driven by Takuya Kurosawa and temporaily by Paolo Montin and Hideki Noda.

The 2002 season is the last Super GT season where all of the Toyota Supra race cars were being equipped with the 503E engine as it was replaced by the modified, 4.4 Liter version of the Toyota 3UZ-FE natural-aspirated V8 engine in the following season. For GT500 class, the Toyota Supra GT race car was later superseded by a series of race cars based on car models from Toyota's luxury division Lexus, consists of Lexus SC430 GT500 race car from 2006 to 2013, the Lexus RC F GT500 race car from 2014 to 2016, the Lexus LC 500 GT500 race car from 2017 to 2019 and the Toyota GR Supra GT500 (which based on the 5th-generation Supra) from 2020 onward.

## See also

### Toyota cars

* Toyota Hilux 4x4
* Toyota Land Cruiser (Team ACP)
* Toyota Hilux Monster Racer Jr.
* Toyota 4Runner
* Toyota Rav4
* Toyota Hilux Surf SSR-G
* Toyota Ipsum L-Selection EX
* Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ
* Toyota Land Cruiser 100 Wagon
* Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid
* Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT/Yaris WRC
* Toyota GR Supra
* Toyota GR Yaris

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* ZENT Tom's Supra (Full set) at Tamiya Japan
Wild Chassis

The **Wild Chassis** (Japanese: ワイルドシャーシ, *Wairudo Shāshi*) is a Mini 4WD chassis released by Tamiya in May 1987. It debuted with the release of Monster Beetle Jr. and is exclusive to the Wild Mini 4WD series.

## General info

The Wild Chassis features a monster truck-like chassis frame design.

The motor was mounted into the middle of the chassis frame, located just below the battery casing. It has the very high ground clearance.

The drivetrain is a direct-type four-wheel-drive, with the gearing system consisting of one pinion gear, two primary counter gears, two secondary counter gears and two spur gear wheels (attached to the left wheels). There is a wheelie bar attached on behind the chassis to prevent the Mini 4WD cars from flipping over while doing wheelies.

All Wild Mini 4WD cars were usually equipped with the yellow wheels and lug-treaded, semi-pneumatic monster truck tires. The optional wheel roller parts can be attached to the wheels for on-road racing.

The concept of the direct-type four-wheel-drive drivetrain was later reused for the Mini 4WD PRO series.
Yuki Imada

**Yuki Imada** (Japanese: 今田 ユウキ, *Imada Yuuki*) is a manga artist and illustrator.

## Biography

Imada entered the scene as an illustrator since 2011. Imada mostly drawn fan arts and commissions.

In 2016, his career as a manga artist started when he was hired by Shogakukan for illustrating one of the books in the *Kagaku Gakushu Manga Crisis Series* educational book, with Kazuto Sanjyo writing the story. In the following year, Imada serialized *Tengoku no Ragnarok* on Shogankukan's *Sunday Web Every* site.

In 2021, Imada, teaming up with another manga artist Hiroyuki Takei, started serializes *Mini4King* on Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* magazine, with Imada writing the story and drawing the arts.

## List of works

### On-going

* *Mini4King* (Story and art. with Hiroyuki Takei as original concept. Serialized on Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* from August 12, 2021 to November 15, 2022 and later moved to *Weekly CoroCoro Comic* from December 17, 2022 onward. 3 volumes)

### Completed

* *Robot Crisis* (Art, with story by Kazuto Sanjyo. Published under Shogakukan's *Kagaku Gakushu Manga Crisis Series* label on December 15, 2016. 1 volume)
* *Tengoku no Ragnarok* (Serialized on Shogakukan's *Sunday Web Every* from April 4, 2017 to December 11, 2017. 4 volumes)

## External links

* Yuuki Imada's Twitter (@pungter)
* Yuuki Imada's pixiv
Shao Bai Ron

The **Shao Bai Ron** (Japanese: 小覇龍シャオバイロン, *Shao Bai Ron*) is a Super Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on April 19, 1994.

It was featured in the poster manga *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden* as Hakurou Oohinata's second machine, replacing his destroyed Little White Dragon.

## General info

Based on the Liberty Emperor, the Shao Bai Ron features the open-wheel body design with the additional front bumper that is attached to the body. It also features two large fins that provides downforce to the rear wheels.

Unlike the base machine, it was mainly in deep gold, with violet, yellow and black stripes on it. It also sports the different headlamps.

It was equipped with the white large diameter 3-spoke lightweight wheels paired with the black Avante-type slick tires. The chassis frame, the A parts and the normal-type side guard were molded in gray, magenta and green respectively. It doesn't comes with a standard motor.

## In media

### *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden*

With just one day before the race against Baron Ghost and having his Little White Dragon destroyed accidentally by Ryou's Poseidon-X, Hakurou made the new machine, using Jingi's Liberty Emperor as a base. While the chassis and the drivetrain is the same as Liberty Emperor, the bodyshell's aerodynamic is different.

Later on, the mandan steering system was implemented into Shao Bai Ron by Jingi himself following the loss against Baron Ghost for the first time.
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Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP: Hyper Heat

***Mini 4WD Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP: Hyper Heat*** (Japanese: ミニ四駆 爆走兄弟レッツ&ゴー!!WGP HYPER HEAT, *Miniyonku Bakusō Kyōdai Rettsu Endo Gō!! WGP Haipā Hīto*) is a Mini 4WD video game developed by Jaleco and published by ASCII, released for the Playstation console. The story is based around the WGP arc in the *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* series.

## Story

The player is the 6th Member of TRF Victorys whose machine is a customized Beat-Magnum TRF.

## Trivia

* Those who pre-ordered the game receive a Beat-Magnum TRF Body.
Nissan Safari

The **Nissan Safari** (Japanese: ニッサン・サファリ, *Nissan Safari*) is a Original Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on November 16, 1982.

It was based on the third-generation Nissan Patrol (Also known as Safari in Japan) produced from 1980 to 1989 by Nissan, specifically the 2-door pickup variant.

## General info

The Nissan Safari features the 4x4 pickup body design, with the rectangle-shaped, mesh-style air intake with circle-shaped headlamps on the front and the vertical rectangle-shaped tall lamps on the rear. There's a bullbar that is attached to its silver-colored front bumper and a non-removable tray shell on the rear of the car.

It was mainly in black, with the blue highlight and white stripes.

It comes with the silver Origin-2 wheels with the black Origin radial tires.

## About the Nissan Safari/Patrol

Introduced in 1980, the third-generation, 160 series Nissan Patrol is a large four-wheel-drive vehicle produced by Nissan. It supersedes the 60 series Patrol models. In Japan, it was released as Nissan Safari.

It is available in 3-door hardtop/softtop, 5-door wagon/van and 2/4-door pickup body designs and has 2WD and 4WD variants.

Powering the car are either the 2.8 liter Nissan L28/L28E straight-6 petrol engines, a 4.0 liter Nissan P40 straight-6 petrol engine, the 3.3 liter Nissan SD33 straight-6 diesel engine or the 3.3 liter Nissan SD33T turbocharged straight-6 diesel engine. The engine is mated to either the 4/5-speed manual transmission or the optional 3-speed Jatco 3N71 automatic transmission. All 160 models has the two-speed offset transfer case.

It was superseded by the fourth-generation Y60 series Patrol for 1987 model year. The 160 series Patrol was also the last Patrol models to carries the Datsun brand in the US, which would not appear on future Nissan vehicles until 2013 when the brand was re-launched for low-cost vehicles.

## See also

### Nissan cars

* Nissan King Cab Jr.
* Nissan Terrano '93 Paris-Dakar (Team NOK JATCO)
* Calsonic Skyline GTR-2002
* Nissan 350Z
* Nissan Be-1

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Nissan Safari at Tamiya Japan (Japanese) (Archived)
Mini-F Yellow

The **Mini-F Yellow** (Japanese: ミニF イエロー, *Mini-Efu Ierō*) is a Mini-F car released by Tamiya on December 20, 2006.

It was the decal-less version of the Benetton Ford B192 Mini-F car.

## General info

Being the decal-less version of the B192, the Mini-F Yellow only comes with the numbering decals.

It was equipped with the gun metal, medium diameter Mini-F wheels paired with the Mini-F slick tires. It also came with the Gold Plated Terminal Set as standard.
PowerChamp EX

The **PowerChamp EX** (Japanese: パワーチャンプEX, *Pawāchanpu Īekkusu*) is the Alkaline battery produced by FDK Corporation, the subsidiary company of Fujitsu and released by Tamiya in 1992.

It is the second generation PowerChamp batteries specifically made for Mini 4WD races.

It was later supersedes by the PowerChamp Gold batteries on April 1994.

## General info

The labeling of the battery is the same as the original PowerChamp battery, with one major difference; the 'PowerChamp' wording on the battery has been scaled down to make way for the red 'EX' letter that placed in-between it and the Tamiya logo.

The EX improves upon the previous battery by increasing the discharge rate and endurance of the battery.

As it is a Alkaline battery, it is heavier than the Mini 4WD Ni-Cd Battery and is not cost effective due to being a non-rechargeable battery.
PowerChamp GR

The **PowerChamp GR** (Japanese: パワーチャンプGR, *Pawāchanpu Jīāru*) is a alkaline battery produced by FDK Corporation, the subsidiary company of Fujitsu and released by Tamiya on December 11, 2001. It was the 5th-generation PowerChamp battery and was introduced during the Dangun Racer era.

The PowerChamp GR was later superseded by the PowerChamp GX.

## General info

The exterior of the PowerChamp GR features the two-tone black/gold, with the large golden 'GR' label placed next to the 'PowerChamp' label and the Tamiya label. The limited edition of the GR, known as the GR2, instead has the artwork of the Dangun Racer Wing-Vulcan from the manga *Dangun Wolf* by Tetsuhiro Koshita.

As usual for a new PowerChamp battery, it features the increased discharge-rate and endurance compare to the PowerChamp SP. Despite the packaging differences, both the GR and GR2 are essentially the same batteries.

## Gallery

### Packages

PowerChamp GR (unopened)PowerChamp GR2 (unopened)
## External link

#### Tamiya America

* PowerChamp GR2 on Tamiya America official website
Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ

The **Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ** (Japanese: トヨタ ランドクルーザー プラド RZ, *Toyota Randokurūzā Purado Raaruzetto*) is a Original Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on August 21, 1996.

It was based on the 3-door, RZ trim variant of the second-generation Toyota Land Cruiser Prado by Toyota.

## General info

The Prado features the 3-door SUV body design. On the front, there's a pair of circle-shaped headlamps with the rectangular housing, as well as the small silver bullbar. On the rear, there's a pair of vertically rectangular, row-type taillamps and a spare tire prop.

It was equipped with the white, 5-spoke Pajero wheels paired with the black RV radial tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## About the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado

Launched in May 1996, the J90 series Land Cruiser Prado is Toyota's SUV truck. It supersedes the first-generation J70 models. It was available in both 3-door short wheelbase and 5-door long wheelbase body configurations.

Powering the car is a series of Toyota engines; On the petrol engines, there's a 2.7 liter 3RZ-FE natural-aspirated inline-4 engine and a 3.4 liter 5VZ-FE natural-aspirated V6 engine, both with DOHC design. On the diesel engines, there's two L-series engines consists of a 2.8 liter engine 3L and 3.0 5L engine (Both are inline-4 and natural-aspirated), as well as other diesel engines consists of a 3.0 liter 1KZ-TE turbocharged inline-4 engine and a 3.0 liter 1KD-FTV turbocharged inline-4 engine. The engine is mated to either a 4-speed automatic or a 5-speed manual gearbox, which sends the power to all four wheels through its full-time four-wheel-drive drivetrain.

Supporting the SUV's chassis is the front double-wishbone suspensions and the rear solid axle trailing arms suspension, both with coil springs and stabilizer bars attached. Braking power is provided by the ventilated disc brakes on all four wheels.

The J90 models were later superseded by the J120 in 2002.

## See also

### Toyota cars

* Toyota Hilux 4x4
* Toyota Hilux Monster Racer Jr.
* Toyota 4Runner
* Toyota Land Cruiser (Team ACP)
* Toyota Rav4
* Toyota Hilux Surf SSR-G
* Toyota Ipsum L-Selection EX
* Toyota Land Cruiser 100 Wagon
* ZENT Tom's Supra
* Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid
* Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT/Yaris WRC
* Toyota GR Supra
* Toyota GR Yaris

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Toyota Land Cruiser Prado RZ at Tamiya Japan (Japanese) (Archived)
Savanna Zebra

## In Fictional Media

### **First Appearance**

*Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP* (Anime-only)

### **Owner**

The Savanna Soldiers

The **Savanna Zebra** (Japanese: サバンナゼブラ, *Sabanna Zebura*) is a fictional Mini 4WD car that appeared in *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP*.

It is belongs to the Savanna Soidires and was immediately superseded by the Beak Spider Zebra.

## General info

The Savanna Zebra features the fully-cowled body design with the white and black zebra-stripes on it.

### In the anime

The Savanna Zebra is the first main machine of the Savanna Soldiers.

Despite having won the Africa tournament, The Savanna Zebra struggles as its performance doesn't up to pair with other GP machines in the world grand prix. It was eventually replaced by the Beak Spider Zebra as Kai Okita became a coach to the team.

## See also

* Beak Spider
Tridagger XX

* Std.
* ClearSP

The **Tridagger XX** (Japanese: トライダガーXXダブルエックス, *Toraidagā Daburu Ekkusu*) is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya on January 24, 2009.

Despite being designed by Tetsuhiro Koshita for the *Let's & Go!* series, it never appears in any of the media.

## General info

The XX features the refined version of the standard Tridagger body design, now modified to accommodated the MS Chassis.

### Standard model

The Standard Tridagger XX features the black bodyshell, with the red/orange arc-style body decal with blue shadows.

It was equipped with the red, small diameter 3-spoke VS-type wheels paired with the black X narrow-type tires. The N-02, normal center, T-01 units and the A parts ere molded in black, and come with the standard 16mm lightweight plastic rollers molded in light gray.

### Clear Special variant

The Clear Special variant comes with the polycarbonate bodyshell and film-type decals. Due to being made of clear polycarbonate with plastic mounting attached, it can be painted in any color with spray paint (Usually the special paints for polycarbonate). Because cutting is also required, this makes the assembly of the car harder for those not used to this.

It was equipped with white, small diameter low-profile fin-type wheels and the black low-profile tires. The N-02, normal center, T-01 units and the A parts ere molded in red, and come with the standard 16mm lightweight plastic rollers molded in light gray.

## See also

* Tridagger X
* Neo-Tridagger ZMC
* Rising-Trigger
* Tridagger WX

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Tridagger XX at Tamiya Japan
* Tridagger XX Clear Special at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Tridagger XX at Tamiya America
* Tridagger XX Clear Special at Tamiya America
Tiger Zap

The **Tiger Zap** (Japanese: タイガーザップ, *Taigā Zappu*) is a Super Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on October 31, 1997.

It was featured in the manga Dash Boy! Ten as Seki Taiga's machine. It was also featured in the manga *Mini 4 Kids* as Kit Kudou's first machine.

## General info

The Tiger Zap features the wedge-shaped, open-wheel body design. On the front, the front axis cover of the chassis and the part of the batteries were exposed, provide better heat dissipation. On the rear of the side fenders, there's two pairs of the exhaust-port props.

All variant were equipped with the large diameter 3-spoke TZ Super-type wheels paired with the Avante-type slick tires. It doesn't come with a standard motor.

### Tiger Zap

The original Tiger Zap features the metal gray body color with yellow and black stripe-styled body decals on it. It sports the blue cockpit.

It was equipped with the gun metal wheels and black tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

A special variant of the regular TIger Zap, released on April 20, 2013, comes with the gold plated large diameter 3-spoke MS I wheels in addition to the standard ones.

Both variants doesn't come with a standard motor.

### Limited Edition

The yellow-colored Limited Edition variant features the yellow body color, with black stripe-styled body decals.

It was equipped with the yellow wheels and black tires. It also includes a pair of FDK-made alkaline batteries.

## In media

### *Dash Boy! Ten*

The Tiger Zap was made after Taiga loses his Shadow Boomerang in a race against Rei Ganma and his Ray Hawk-Gamma.

It is unknown how unique this Mini 4WD car is as the manga was put into hiatus following Tokuda's health issue.

### *Mini 4 Kids*

In both storylines, Kit owns a customized Tiger Zap. The performances is comparable to Kakeru's Ray Hawk-Gamma, except that Kit did not shave weight from the bodyshell as Kakeru does.

It was later replaced by the Cross-Tiger VR in the story.

## Trivia

* The bodyshell of the Tiger Zap is one of the TZ-compatible bodyshells that are not compatible with the AR Chassis due to its design.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Tiger Zap at Tamiya Japan
* Tiger Zap (with Gold Plated Wheels) at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Tiger Zap (with Gold Plated Wheels) at Tamiya America
Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP: Eternal Wings

***Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!: Eternal Wings*** (Japanese: 爆走兄弟レッツ&ゴー!! エターナルウィングス, *Bakusō Kyōdai Rettsu Endo Gō!! Etānaru U~ingusu*) is a Mini 4WD racing video game developed by Jaleco, released for the Playstation console. The story is based around the *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX* anime and features racers from the previous 2 series.

## Story

Borzoi opens up a new tournament and invites all the default participating characters while plotting his own ambitions.

Player can choose between the exisiting characters and their cars from the *Let's & Go* series, or the two original characters that can be named.
Mini 4wd Wiki

This wiki is for the series of Mini 4WD minicars that are created by Tamiya since 1982. This includes manga and anime series that featuring Mini 4WD cars. You can helping us by start contributes this wiki.
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Keep on running!

 **May 13, 2022*** In Shizuoka Hobby Show 2022, Tamiya showcased a few Mini 4WD kits and Grade-Up Parts. They are:
	+ Two new Mini 4WD cars, the Super Avante Jr. (TD4) and Lord Knight.
	+ Japan Cup 2022 special variant of the Hyper-Dash 3 Motor and Hyper-Dash Motor PRO, HG Carbon Front Stay for Fully Cowled Mini 4WD (1.5mm), HG Carbon Rear Multi Roller Setting Stay (1.5mm) and HG Carbon Rear Brake Stay (1.5mm), and the new Super Hard Low-Profile Tire & Wheel Set (Spiral) J-Cup 2022
	+ The Super Hard Small Dia. Narrow Tires (24mm) & Reinforced 3-Spoke Wheels.

**June 24, 2022**
* The circuit of this year's Japan Cup, the DX Rolling Circuit 2022, had been unveiled!
* As usual, the Japan Cup special edition items will be made available.

**April 15, 2023**
* *Mini4King* have finally completed its serialization! The 4th and final volume will be released on May 28, 2023!
PowerChamp RS

The **PowerChamp RS** (Japanese: パワーチャンプRS, *Pawāchanpu Āruesu*) is the Alkaline battery produced by FDK Corporation, the subsidiary company of Fujitsu and released by Tamiya in 2016.

It is the 10th generation PowerChamp batteries specifically made for Mini 4WD races. It has ceased its production as it was superseded by the PowerChamp RX on November 28, 2020.

## General info

On the outside, the PowerChamp RS battery's body has the red highlight in place of the blue highlight that the PowerChamp GT has. It has a gold-plated 'PowerChamp' label with a large black 'RS' label below. It has the silver terminal buttons.

Compare to the GT, the PowerChamp RS has 11 percents more stamina and 5 percents more discharge rate. In theory, Its performance is, by any means, slightly above that of Fujitsu's own Premium G battery.

As it is a Alkaline battery, it is heavier than NeoChamp battery and is not cost effective due to being a non-rechargeable battery.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* PowerChamp RS at Tamiya Japan
Yonkuro Hinomaru

* OG Manga
* Shin
* Hyper

**Yonkuro Hinomaru** (Japanese: 日ノ丸 四駆郎, *Hinomaru Yonkurō*) is the protagonist of the *Dash! Yonkuro* series.

## Biography

Yonkuro is a young Mini 4WD-enthusiast 5th grader whose risktaking racestyle that aims to an overall efficiency in every route. His recklessness will bring always his Mini 4WD beyond its limits, and to the point he always have to replace it with a newer model due to the damages received and in order to compete with even more formidable opponents.

## Synopsis

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## Other appearance

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Since the game's launch, Yonkuro, along with his Emperor cars, can be fought in various World Maps. Note that his appearance and the car he use varies depending on which stage the player race against him.

With the June 25, 2022 update (which saw the Rise-Emperor body being added into the game), Yonkuro in his *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* appearance can be fought in a time-limited God Speed Vol.3 event.

## Mini 4WD cars

* Boomerang Jr./Jet Boomerang
* Dash-1 Emperor
* Dash-01 Super Emperor
* Dash-001 Great Emperor
* Liberty Emperor
* Dash-CB1 Geo-Emperor
* Formula Horizon
* Rise-Emperor

## Trivia

* Yonkuro's name is a pun on the Japanese word "四駆 (Yonku)" meaning "four-wheel drive".
Type-2 Chassis

The **Type-2 Chassis** (Japanese: タイプ２シャーシ, *Taipu Tsū Shāshi*) is the second Type Chassis released by Tamiya in December 1988 with the release of Avante Jr.

## General info

The chassis is different than the Type-1 Chassis as it was designed purely for on-road track racing. Large wheels, low-profile slick tires as well as guide rollers are all standard features for this chassis.

It also introduced the use of driveshaft bearing attachments, which is the standard for all future chassis. The default plastic/brass bearings can be replaced with either the metal bearings or the ball bearings.

The motor mount and gear box has been redesigned to reduce difficulty of maintain the motor and gears. Battery clip is now standard with this chassis. There's also the holes around the chassis to dissipate heat from the motor and batteries.

The chassis was redesigned so it will have minimal power losses, which was one of the problems that plagued the Type-1 Chassis. In addition, the chassis has lower center-of-gravity as the inner parts are placed lower.

While it may be good for racing, it has few problems: The first is that most bodies designed for Type-1 Chassis are not compatible with the new chassis due to having longer wheelbase and the way how the motor is placed. Secondly, it is not compatible with some tune-up parts at the time of its release. Finally, its front bumper, much like every Type series chassis, could break easily

Performance-wise, it performs better than the Type-1, despite this it have poor acceleration performance due to its long wheelbase (which is shared with Type-4 Chassis, Super TZ Chassis and Super TZ-X Chassis)

The design of Type-2 would later updated into Type-4 Chassis.

## Colors

### Chassis frame

* Gray - Common color for most machines. First equipped with Avante Jr.
* Black - First equipped with Avante Jr. Black Special.
* Clear - Common color for special version of Type-2 Chassis cars. First equipped with Avante Jr. Special Version.

### A parts

* Gray - Common color for most machines. First equipped with Avante Jr.
* Black - First equipped with Avante Jr. Black Special.
* Clear - Common color for special version of Type-2 Chassis cars. First equipped with Avante Jr. Special Version.

## Gallery

Chassis construction view (Grasshopper II Jr.)
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Ultra Dash Motor

The **Ultra Dash Motor** (Japanese: ウルトラダッシュモーター, *Urutora Dasshu Mōtā*) is a Mini 4WD motor manufactures by Mabuchi Motor and released by Tamiya in 1995.

The original release of the Ultra Dash Motor, bearing the Tamiya product number of 15140, was long discontinued, only to be re-released on August 7, 2002 during the R/C Mini 4WD era with the product number of 15307 and is still currently in production.

## General info

The Ultra Dash Motor has the black endbell cap and silver-plated metal housing with the Tamiya label on it.

The performance of the Ultra Dash Motor is somewhat similar to that of Jet-Dash Motor despite having the different OEM. It has 2g-cm less than the Jet-Dash Motor.

Along with Jet-Dash Motor and Plasma-Dash Motor, it was banned from Tamiya official race tournaments due to its overwhelming performance.

## In other media

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

The Ultra Dash Motor was added in the game since January 18, 2023. It first appeared in the time-limited "Shinsoku Fes Vol.36" gacha.

The motor is a Uphill attribute parts (thus suitable with either a Uphill or Uphill+ bodyshell), with 3080 points of speed and 1900 points of power, but with the sub-parameters of 3800 points of power consumption and 1400 points of gear load.

As with real-life, the use of Ultra Dash Motor in certain races, including the GP season races, are prohibited.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Ultra Dash Motor at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)

### Tamiya Online Shop

* Ultra Dash Motor (re-release) at Tamiya Online Shop (Japanese)
Moero! Avante Kyoudai

***Mini 4WD R/C Legend: Burn! Avante Brothers*** (Japanese: ミニ四駆RC伝説 燃えろ!アバンテ兄弟, *MiniYonku RC Densetsu Moero! Avante Kyoudai*) is a manga series created by Tetsuhiro Koshita and published on Shogakukan's *Besatsu CoroCoro Comic* magazine from December 1987 to March 1992 for a total of 2 volumes.

## Overview

The story focus on the Ohzora Brothers who love the Avante. With Shoichi's R/C Avante and Fuuta's Avante Jr., they are the invicible tag whose burning passion earns them victories through tournaments and strongest rivals such as the "Black Bandits".

## List of chapters

### Volume 1

1. Prologue
2. 突撃アバンテ大逆転
3. アバンテ兄弟vsバンキッシュ兄弟
4. 激走タミヤトロフィー
5. 対決！ブラックアバンテ

### Volume 2

1. 四駆vs二駆、究極の大勝負！
2. 爆走！氷上・雪上レース
3. 初登場！アバンテ２００１
4. スターズブラザーズの挑戦
5. 風太vs前ちゃん、熱い激闘！
6. 対決！ブラックイグレス
Parts Case

The **parts cases** (Japanese: パーツケース, *Pātsu Kēsu*) are a series of Mini 4WD storage cases manufactured by Meiho and released by Tamiya since 1989.

It was based on Meiho's Mini Rectangle Case.

## General info

The parts case is measured at 120 mm width, 92 mm length and 25mm tall.

The internal of the case was seperated into six sections, each with 20 mm deep. Each of those sections can be used to stores parts for Mini 4WD cars, with one of them long enough for storing the driveshafts and propeller shafts and three of them being big enough for storing the double-shaft motors.

The cover was molded in polypropylene plastic, while the under tray was molded in polystyrene plastic.

Oddly, only the DR Parts Case has its under tray molded in clear smoke rather than semi-clear that the other parts cases has.

The case can be stored in any of the carrying boxes, including Racer's Box, Super Racer's Box, Portable Pit and Carrying Pit.

## References

1. ↑ Mini Rectangle Case at Meiho (Japanese)

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Parts Case (Blue) at Tamiya Japan
Zaurus Tokuda

**Zaurus Tokuda** (Japanese: 徳田 ザウルス, *Tokuda Zaurusu*, December 1, 1958 – March 23, 2006), born **Hajime Tokuda** (Japanese: 徳田 肇, *Tokuda Hajime*), is a manga artist and a 3DCG illustrator.

## Biography

Tokuda was known for his manga works focuses on Mini 4WD cars, notably *Dash! Yonkuro*, which famous enough to spawn a TV anime adaptation. Tokuda was also voiced the fictional version of himself in the TV anime adaptation of *Dash! Yonkuro*.

He died from the heart failure on March 23, 2006, at the age of 47.

## Notable Works

* *Dash! Yonkuro*(1987 – 1992, 14 volumes)
	+ *Shin Dash! Yonkuro* (toy tie-in manga, cancelled)
* *The Wind Racer! Otokogi*(1993, 1 volume)
	+ *​The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden* (toy tie-in manga, cancelled)
* *Dash Boy! Ten*(1994, 2 volumes)
* *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* (2015-ongoing, manga by Hiroyuki Takei) (credited as original creator)\*

\*Serializes under the permission from the late Tokuda's wife Jizabe Tokuda.
Winning Bird

The **Winning Bird** (Japanese: ウイニングバード, *Uiningu Bādo*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on April 3, 1990. It is the second Mini 4WD car from the Dream Attack project started by Tamiya and Shogakukan.

It was featured in the manga *Mini 4 Top* as Top Kudo's upgraded machine from his Rising Bird.

## General info

Unlike its predecessor, the Winning Bird has a more blocky body design. It also lost the rear wings, harboring a pair of fins in its place which compensates for the lack of a spoiler.

The low-height, flat design was inspired by Formula 1 car body designs as well as a jet fighter's sharp design.

While the boxart depicts the Winning Bird equipped with the standard rollers, the actual assembled mini car can be equipped with the larger rollers as seen in the manga, depending on user's preference.

### Standard variant

The standard variant has its bodyshell dominated by silver with blue highlights and black and red trims.

It was equipped with the white, medium diameter 4-spoke Hotshot-type wheels paired with the red spike tires. Unlike the Rising Bird, the Winning Bird's chassis frame and A parts were now molded in black.

### 21st Century Edition

In 2015, Tamiya released the 21st Century Edition of the Winning Bird which comes with several different color schemes and an updated chassis (VS Chassis). It was also a limited prize model.

Change has been made to the bodyshell mold, allowing it to be attach onto later chassis. (the exception of this is the front-motor chassis, the midship-motor chassis and the AR Chassis)

It was equipped with the silver-plated, large diameter 6-spoke Manta Ray-type wheel paired with Avante-type spiked tires with the color choices of red and black (Depends on the model).

## In media

### *Mini 4 Top*

5 of the 6 Shogaku Year serializations of the *Mini 4 Top* has Top replacing the Rising Bird with the Winning Bird though in the *Top 6* version, he owns the Winning Bird right from the beginning).

In some versions of the story, the Winning Bird has the lightweight, polycarbonate body version known as the Winning Bird Formula.

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Rola Hoshino, one of original characters in the game, owns a Winning Bird, equipped with the Super-1 Chassis, gray-colored FM-type wheels and sponge tires.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of Winning Bird.Boxart of Winning Bird 21st Century Edition.
## See also

* Rising Bird
* Winning Bird Formula

## External links

### Charatoru

* Winning Bird 21st Century at Charatoru (Japanese)