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Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP

***Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! WGP*** (Japanese: 爆走兄弟レッツ＆ゴー!! ＷＧＰ, *Bakusō Kyōdai Rettsu Endo Gō!! WGP*) is a manga series created by Tetsuhiro Koshita and published in Shogakukan's *CoroCoro Comic* from September 1996 to November 1997. It is the second series (after *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* and before *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*) in the *Let's & Go!* series.

Unlike the anime adaptation, the original manga is part of the original series and starts from volume 10.

A TV anime adaptation, produced by XEBEC, was aired on TV Tokyo from January 6, 1997 to December 22, 1997.

## Overview

The series is a sequel to the first and continues the story of the Seiba brothers, Go and Retsu, as they take their racing careers to the international level and compete against racers from around the world. They join a team put together by their mentor, Dr. Tsuchiya, to form the TRF Victorys who represent Japan on the world stage. Along the way they learn the value of teamwork and face many different challenges from racers from all over the globe, including those who use battle techniques to destroy other cars in order to win.

## List of Mini 4WD cars

* Cyclone Magnum (Go Seiba's machine)
* Hurricane Sonic (Retsu Seiba's machine)
* Black Saber (Futoshi Kurosawa's machine, anime-only)
* Neo-Tridagger ZMC (Ryo Takaba's machine)
* Spin Cobra (Tokichi Mikuni's machine)
* Proto-Saber Evolution (J's machine)
* Buck Blader (Team NA Astro Rangers' machines)
* Kong Long (Team Guang Xie's machines, anime-only)
* Shining Scorpion (Team Guang Xie's machines)
* Savanna Zebra (Team Savanna Soldiers' machine, anime-only)
* Beak Spider Zebra (Team Savanna Soldiers' machine, anime-only)
* Beak Spider (Kai Okita's machine, anime-only)
* White Night (Team Odins' machines, anime-only)
* Native Sun (Team AR Boomerangs' machines, anime-only)
* Diospada (Team Rosso Strada's machines)
* Jammin' RG (Team Cool Caribeans' machines)
* Omega (Team CCP Silver Fox's machine, anime-only)
* Brocken Gigant Black Special (Gen Kondou's machine)
* Bergmasse (Team Eisen Wolf's machines, anime-only)
* Bergkaiser (Team Eisen Wolf's machines)

## Gallery

### Promotional

Anime series poster.Poster art for all 3 series
## See also

* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*
* *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! Return Racers!*
* *Let's & Go! Tsubasa: The Next Racers*
Desert-Golem

* Original
* GPA

The **Desert-Golem** (Japanese: デザートゴーレム, *Dezāto Gōremu*) is an Aero Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in May 1999. The GPA variant of the car was later released on March 26, 2002.

It was featured in the manga *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX* as Khareem Hamed's machine.

## General info

The Desert-Golem features the heavy-armored, fully cowled body design. It has the front side wheel guards that were attached to its blocky front cowls and the rear cowls has the track tread-like design. It has four headlamps on the front.

All variants were equipped with the small diameter 3-spoke VS-type wheels and X narrow-type slick tires.

### Desert-Golem

The standard Desert-Golem features the buff body color, with the green camouflage-like body decals on it. It sports the blue cockpit on the center and the gray-colored track treads on its rear cowls.

It was equipped with red wheels and black tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in dark green. It doesn't come with a motor.

### GPA

The GPA version follows the similar style as with other GPA cars, which are designed in mind with GP Chips. In additions to having its body color changed from buff to metallic violet, this variant also has holes opened to shave weight. A GT-styled rear spoiler was added onto the rear.

It was equipped with yellow wheels and black tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in white. It doesn't come with a motor.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*

In the manga, the Desert-Golem is a off-road-orientated racing machine.

It has the lift-type active suspension system on the front and the caterpillar-like wheel-switching system on the rear. The Desert-Golem's bodyshell itself is also very tough, as it didn't receive any damage from the attacks by the Kusanagi brothers' cars. It also has unusual high amount of torque which, combined with its toughness, allowing the car to push any heavy objects.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Desert-Golem at Tamiya Japan
* Desert-Golem GPA at Tamiya Japan
Dash-CBW Command Saurus

The **Dash-CBW Command Saurus** (Japanese: ダッシュCBW コマンドザウルス, *Dasshu Shībīdaburu Komando Zaurusu*) is a Wild Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on July 18, 1995.

It was featured in the toy tie-in manga *Shin Dash! Yonkuro* as Genta's machine.

## General info

The Command Saurus, like its predecessor, featuring the armor-like body design that was inspired by the Maneuver Combat Vehicle and the Tyrannosaurus.

Unlike Wild Saurus, it has the symmetrical body design, with front fenders become more pronounced. and has less 'rollcages' on the canopy. It also has the silver bullbar on the front.

It is mainly in blue, with red and yellow stripes on it.

It is equipped with the standard wild-type wheels with monster truck tires.

## In media

### *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*

In *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*, it is one of the Dash Combine machines along with Geo-Emperor, Blazing Sun and Proto-Emperor Coretank. It is the upper part of the Dash Combine.

Much like the other Dash Combine machines, it is unknown that who create the minicar.

## Gallery

### Manga and anime

The Command Saurus, as seen in *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*.

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Dash-CBW Command Saurus at Tamiya Japan
Fin-type Low-Profile Wheels

* Normal
* Carbon
* Silver

The **fin-type low-profile wheels** (Japanese: フィンタイプ ロープロホイール, *Fin Taipu Rōpuro Hoīru*) are the series of Mini 4WD Grade-up Parts released by Tamiya since August 7, 2002. It was first released during the R/C Mini 4WD era.

## General info

The low-profile wheels has the fin-type sub-spoke, parallel width wheel design. Each sets comes with the low-profile tires.

The 1st version of the wheels has 3 main spokes that supports the wheels. Said design is somewhat fragile and is easily breaks. Later versions of the wheels instead has 6 main spokes to improves the wheels' rigidity.

Depends on the sets, it either comes with the polypropylene wheels and medium elastomer tires or carbon-mixed nylon wheels and hard-compound elastomer tires, The carbon-mixed nylon wheels alone can be obtained from the carbon reinforced wheel set.

It is compatible with most Mini 4WD Chassis. Compatibility with the bodyshells varies.

Some Mini 4WD cars, such as Blast Arrow and Silwolf, comes with the wheel sets by default.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Hard Low-Height Tire and Carbon Wheel Set (Fin) at Tamiya Japan
* Dark Blue Low-Profile Tire and Silver Wheel Set (Fin) at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)

### Tamiya America

* Low-Height Tire and Wheel Set (Fin) at Tamiya America
* Dark Blue Low-Profile Tire and Silver Wheel Set (Fin) at Tamiya America

### Tamiya Online Shop

* Low-Height Tire and Wheel Set (Fin) at Tamiya Online Shop (Japanese)
Fire Stinger

The **Fire Stinger** (Japanese: ファイヤースティンガー, *Faiyā Sutingā*) is a Fully Cowled Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in April 1998.

It was featured in the anime adaptation of *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX* as Marina Ogami's machine.

## General info

The Fire Stinger is essentially a Ray Stinger with the silver and red flame-styled body decals, with blue highlight and the gold colored two-piece canopy.

Two pair of circle-shaped air intakes, which was presented on the Ray Stinger, has been removed. In addition, the overall body design has received minor redesigns.

It was equipped with the white, small diameter 6-spoke TZ-type wheels paired with the black high profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black. It doesn't come with a motor.

## In media

### *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go! MAX*

The Fire Stinger was Marina Ogami's first machine in the series. The car was based on Ray Stinger, a machine created by her father Dr.Ogami.

Although it didn't have the infrared light reaction mechanism like the Ray Stinger has, the Fire Stinger is still nonetheless a battle race machine. It is capable of firing flames from its front nose hole, side-jets and the upper part front and rear cowls. It can go faster by using the flame-firing mechanism on the rear cowls as the thrusters. The Fire Stinger can even use its flames as a barrier. Its special technique is the 'Flame Bird', in which the Fire Stinger is covered in flames that was in the shape of a phoenix.

Of course, its flame-firing equipments are not unlimited, and is usually use the gas (Stored inside the small tanks that were attached under the bodyshell) as the source, thus Marina has to refills the car's gas tanks on few ocassions. Furthermore, it was known that its flame-firing equipments will causes the whole car to overheats.

The Fire Stinger was later modified into Phoenix Stinger as Marina joins the Borzoi Racers after having reunited with her father.

## See also

* Ray Stinger
* Phoenix Stinger

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Fire Stinger at Tamiya Japan
Mini 4WD Starter Pack FM-A Balanced Spec

The **Mini 4WD Starter Pack FM-A Balanced Spec** (Japanese: ニ四駆スターターパック FM-Aバランスタイプ, *Mini Yonku Sutātā Pakku Efumemu-Ē Baransu Taipu*) is a Mini 4WD car bundle pack that was released by Tamiya on March 17, 2018.

## General info

The bundle includes a Rowdy Bull bodyshell molded in smoke black plastic, black chassis frame and light gray A parts. It was equipped with silver, small diameter fin-type low-profile wheels.

It also includes six 13mm low-friction rollers molded in white, the FRP Wide Front Plate and Wide Rear Plate, the black super hard low-profile tires, two short mass damper block measured at 6x6x14mm, the brake set molded in black, four stabilizer balls molded in black, the 30mm, 25mm and 5mm screws, eight 6.7mm aluminum spacers, six roller stoppers, six 2mm nuts, six washers, six spring washers and finally, an Atomic-Tuned 2 Motor. Setting-wise, it was tuned for the balance-type race circuits.

With the exceptions of the base car, motor and the mass dampers, this set shares most of the parts with the AR Speed Spec and MA Power Spec.

Unlike the other two starter packs, the kit only includes a wrench and a rubber tube.

## See also

### Related

* Mini 4WD Starter Pack AR Speed Spec
* Mini 4WD Starter Pack MA Power Spec
* Neo-VQS Advanced Pack

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Starter Pack FM-A Balanced Spec at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Starter Pack FM-A Balanced Spec at Tamiya America
Mini 4WD Koala Racer

* Std.
* Pastel SP

The **Mini 4WD Koala Racer** (Japanese: ミニ四駆コアラ, *Mini Yonku Koara*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on January 12, 2019.

It was the 10th entry in the animal Mini 4WD sub-series.

## General info

Both the standard model and the Pastel Special has the car number 10 on their bodyshells, as the standard model was the 10th Mini 4WD car in the 'Animal Mini 4WD' sub-series.

Unique to them is the pre-painted, super-deformed koala driver figurine.

### Koala Racer

The standard Koala Racer features the flat, open-wheel Top-Force bodyshell. It has the yellow green body color with the sky-themed, sky blue/white-colored body decals and the tree decals on around the canopy. The koala driver figurine has gray fur.

It was equipped with the yellow, large-diameter 5-spoke lightweight wheels paired with the green arched tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in white and green respectively.

### Pastel Special

The event-exclusive Pastel special features the open-wheel bodyshell of that of the Panda Racer. It has the turquoise body color with deep pink/white body decals. The 'Team Aussie', 'Australia' and the decal resembles the Australia land can be found on the bodyshell. The koala driver figurine has beige fur.

It was equipped with the white, small-diameter fin-type low-profile wheels with the clear, soft-compound low-profile slick tires with the special 'Koala Racer Pastel Special' decal between it and the wheels. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in pink and white respectively.

## Gallery

### Boxart

Boxart of the standard variant.Boxart of the Pastel Special variant.
## See also

### Base car

* Top-Force Evolution Open Top (For the standard model)
* Mini 4WD Panda Racer (For the Pastel Special model)

## External links

#### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Koala Racer at Tamiya America
* Mini 4WD Koala Racer Pastel Special at Tamiya America
Benetton Ford B192

The **Benetton Ford B192** (Japanese: ベネトン フォード B192, *Beneton Fōdo Bī Ichikyuni*) is a Mini-F car released by Tamiya in 1993.

It was based on the Benetton B192 Formula One car that was used in the 1992 Formula One World Championship season.

## General info

While its low-height, open-wheel body design shares many of the common features with other Mini-F cars released so far, it has the raise nose that is different from the likes of Tyrrell 020 and Jordan 191, as it deploys the vertical structure between the front spoiler/hook and the nose. Unfortunately, this is also the weak structure, as one course-out could break the structure. The bodyshell has the non-removable driver figurine.

It was mainly in yellow with green and white accents. Various sponsors, including Mobil, VIVIL and Sanyo, can be found on the bodyshell. The Camel brand logo (which presented on the real-life Benetton B192) was removed.

It was equipped with the gun metal, medium diameter Mini-F wheels paired with the Mini-F slick tires.

## About the Benetton B192

Debuted at the European Grand Prix in the 1992 season, the Benetton B192 is a Formula One car used by the Benetton team. It supersedes the B191.

Its carbon monocoque chassis, supported by the 4-wheel independent double wishbones suspension with pushrod dampers, is very well-made and nimble. Powering the car is the 3.5 liter Ford V8 natural-aspirated engines, the HBA5 and HBA7, and were mated to a Benetton-sourced 6-speed manual gearbox. Unlike other Formula One cars at the time, it did not any driver aids.

It was replaced by the B193 in the following 1993 season.
Mini 4WD Octa-Charger

The **Mini 4WD Octa-Charger** (Japanese: ミニ四駆 8本充電器, *Mini Yonku Hachi-pon Jūden-ki*) is a battery charger manufactured by N.Densan P.G. and released by Tamiya in 1996. It is the version of Tamiya's own QD Octa-Charger.

It was bundled with 8 Mini 4WD Ni-Cd batteries.

## General info

Compare to the QD Octa-Charger, the Mini 4WD Octa-Charger has 30mA more charging current. The charger's body is yellow as oppose to the QC Octa-Charger's white.

It is capable of fully charge 8 Ni-Cd batteries in approximately 4 to 5 hours.

## See also

* QD Octa-Charger
MS Chassis

The **MS Chassis** (Japanese: MSシャーシ, *Emuesu Shāshi*) is a Mini 4WD chassis introduced by Tamiya in November 2005. It was the first double-shaft motor-driven chassis, and it was marketed exclusively under the Mini 4WD PRO car line-up.

## General info

Instead of placing the motor on the front or the rear, the motor was relocated to the middle of the chassis. In order to achieve this, Tamiya and SMC Motor co-developed a line of double-shaft motors for the new chassis, resulting in a 50/50 power transfer ratio. The batteries are now moved further to the sides of the chassis, with the motor itself in between.

The MS Chassis uses a modular design, divided into three main parts: the nose, centre and the tail. This allows for a variety of configurations, with three different nose and tail parts and two centre parts available. There also exists a bumper-less nose and tail module (N-03/T-03).

It has the short, 80 mm wheelbase as with most compact chassis, resulting in better cornering. As all wheels are directly driven by the motor without the need of a propeller shaft, the MS Chassis has better torque than any chassis released so far.

One downside of the MS Chassis is its weight, which can be mitigated by using lightweight center parts. Another disadvantage is that since the chassis' basic layout is by and large fundamentally different from traditional Mini 4WD (i.e. front and rear motor) chassis, only parts that are bespoke to the chassis are compatible. And due to the motor and battery being placed at the middle of the chassis, narrow track large-diameter wheels are no longer compatible.

The basic MS Chassis components would later reused and redeveloped in the MA Chassis.

## Trivia

* The N-04 and T-04 units were the only nose and tail units that require 72 mm drive shafts, which, up until then, was made exclusively for Super X Chassis.
* It is the first Chassis to have the new double-shaft motor.
* Some bodyshells made for earlier chassis require modifications in order to fit them into the MS Chassis.
	+ At the launch of the MS Chassis car, Tamiya's staff accidentally listed Strato Vector (which required a front motor chassis) in the list of compatible bodyshells on the official website. It has been since removed.
* In a patent Tamiya registered for the chassis, it shows that the chassis can be equipped with nose and tail units with different ground clearances and the nose unit can be swapped for the one with steering mechanism. It is unknown why Tamiya had scrapped those ideas for the actual chassis release.

## References

1. ↑ Patent EP1852165 B1 (MS Chassis) on Google Patent
McLaren MP4/7 Honda

The **McLaren MP4/7 Honda** (Japanese: マクラーレン MP4/7 ホンダ, *Makurāren E mupi ̄ Yon/Nana Honda*) is a Mini-F car released by Tamiya in 1993.

It was based on the McLaren MP4/7A Formula One car that was used in the 1992 Formula One World Championship season.

## General info

The MP4/7 features the low-height, open-wheel body design that is mostly shared with other Mini-F cars that were based on Formula One cars. The bodyshell has the non-removable driver figurine.

The bodyshell is mainly in white with red accent. Various sponsors, including Shell, Honda, Good Year and Courtaulds, can be found on the bodyshell. The Marlboro brand logo (which was presented on the real-life MP4/7) was removed and substituted by the McLaren logo.

It was equipped with the gun metal, medium diameter Mini-F wheels paired with the Mini-F slick tires.

## About the McLaren MP4/7A

Debuted at the Brazilian Grand Prix in the 1992 season, the McLaren MP4/7A is McLaren International's Formula One car.

It has the carbon fiber monocoque chassis, supported by the 4-wheel independent double wishbones suspensions with pushrod dampers. Powering the car is a 3.5 liter Honda RA122E/B natural-aspirated V12 engine, and was mated to, for the first time for McLaren, a 6-speed automated maunal gearbox. The MP4/7A later gained the traction control system at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Another variant for MP4/7A, dubbed MP4/7B, has the experimental active suspension system. Unfortunately it was deemed not reliable after the testing at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

MP4/7A was also the last McLaren Formula One car to be powered by a Honda engine, as Honda pull out from the Formula One race scene at the end of the 1992 season.

## See also

### Cars powered by Honda engines

* Braun Tyrrell Honda 020
* Footwork FA13 Mugen Honda

### Cars by Honda

* Honda City Turbo
* Raybrig NSX 2002
* Beams Integra
* Honda e
Mini 4WD Lupine Racer GT

The **Mini 4WD Lupine Racer GT** (Japanese: ミニ四駆 オオカミ GT, *Mini Yonku Ōkami Jītī*) is a limited edition Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya on November 11, 2017.

Based on the Silwolf, it was the 4th car in the the Animal Mini 4WD GT sub-lineup of the series of Animal Mini 4WD cars.

## General info

Just like the previously released Mini 4WD Kumamon Version GT, the Lupine Racer GT has the similar symmetrical body decal design, with cyan, black and yellow highlights over its clear purple bodyshell. The 'Racing Mini 4WD' decal and the Tamiya logo decal can be found on the front window and on the front nose respectively. On the rear spoiler and the sides of the bodyshell, the 'Lupine Racer GT' decals are presented. The very same wolf driver figurine from the Mini 4WD Lupine Racer was mounted onto the center top of the motor/gear cover of the chassis.

It was equipped with the yellow small diameter fin-type low-profile wheels paired with the dark blue hard-compound low profile slick tires. The chassis frame and the A parts were molded in violet and yellow respectively. Much like the other Animal Mini 4WD GT cars, it comes with the Torque-Tuned 2 Motor PRO.

## Trivia

* The base car choice of the Lupine Racer GT is very fitting to its wolf-motif design as the base car's name, *Silwolf*, is the combination of the Deutsch word *Silber* ("Silver") and the English word *Wolf*.

## See also

### Related

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer
* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer 2

## External link

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer GT at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer GT at Tamiya America
Eleglitter

The **Eleglitter** (Japanese: エレグリッター, *Eregurittā*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on August 7, 2021. It was designed by car designer Kota Nezu of Znug Design, who previously designed Astralster and Raikiri.

## General info

The Eleglitter featuring the futuristic body design with open cockpit. On the front, there's the horizontal straight, series of angular headlamps that seat just below the front fenders. On the rear, there's a single taillamp. There's air intakes on the sides of the main bodyshell.

The bodyshell can be configured in either the fully cowled form or the open-wheel form with the user-removable front and rear fenders, allowing the installation of large diameter wheels in the open-wheel form. The car also has a removable, unpainted driver figurine.

### Standard model

The standard Eleglitter features the gray bodycolor, with blue stripes on it. The 'Tamiya' decals, the 'Znug Design' decals and the 'Elegritter' decals can be found on the bodyshell, with the car number '9' found on the removable cowls.

It was equipped with the light blue, newly designed dual 6-spoke angular-type wheels with the gray angular aero-discs, paired with the black low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.
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Basic:Bumper

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* **Bumper**
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* Shock absorb parts
* Reinforced chassis
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* Friction reduction
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **Bumper** (Japanese: バンバー, *Banbā*) is the frontal part of the Mini 4WD car's chassis.

## How the bumper works

In the stock car setup, the bumper is strong enough to withstands the impacts as the car collides with the circuit's fences. it also acts as the frontal protection for the car.

Newer chassis like Super XX Chassis, Super-II Chassis, AR Chassis, MA Chassis and FM-A Chassis has their bumper extended.

## Breakage and reinforcing the bumper

As the car was tunes faster, the bumper might not able to withstands the impacts and will eventually breaks apart. This is where the reinforced plates and shock absorb parts comes to play; those parts are to strengthen the bumper, extend it and in some parts, absorbs the impacts. Extending the bumper will also lessen the impacts it receives, which in turns increases the car's acceleration and stability.

Since it was the frontal part of the chassis, the bumper is usually the chassis part that is being puts on more stresses than the rear stay.

## Advance-user setups

Some racers prefers the bumperless setup, where the sides of the bumper were cut off all together and replaces them with reinforced plates. This setup allows to shaves off the weights of the chassis, but it can be only done on cars with Super X Chassis and newer.

The VZ Chassis is currently the only chassis, outside of the modular MS Chassis, to have user-removable front bumper by default.
Dash-03 Super Shooting Star

The **Dash-03 Super Shooting Star**  (Japanese: ダッシュ０３号 S.S.S.スーパーシューティングスター, *Dasshu Zerosan-gō Sūpā Shūtingu Sutā*) is a Racing Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on May 31, 1994.

It was featured in the toy tie-in manga *Shin Dash! Yonkuro* as Shinkuro Minami's machine.

## General info

The Super Shooting Star featuring the more curved body design, while using the Shooting Star as its base.

The rear spoiler and the large air-duct were removed, and in its place are the pair of wings. The side air-ducts were redesigned to the more sharper design. instead of the black canopy, it has the deep green canopy and it resembles the canopy design that the earlier Super Mini 4WD cars has.

It was equipped the yellow medium diameter 5-spoke G-Emperor-type wheels with the black high-profile tires. Both the chassis frame and A parts were molded in dark green.

## In media

### *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*

In *Shin Dash! Yonkuro*, Shinkuro, along with Rinko and Punkuro, receives their new machine from Kaidanji Sumeragi, much to Yonkuro and Tankuro's dismay as Mr. Sumeragi didn't made the new cars for them.

At one point of the manga, it got run over by GHK's combine machine, damage Shinkuro's car in the process.

## See also

* Dash-3 Shooting Star
* Shooting Proud Star

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Dash-03 Super Shooting Star at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Dash-03 Super Shooting Star at Tamiya America
Basic:Reinforced chassis

* Gearing
* Wheels and tires
* Chassis
* Bumper
* Rear stay
* Side guard
* Roller
* Bodyshell

* Shock absorb parts
* **Reinforced chassis**
* Stabilizing parts
* Mass damper

* Degreasing
* Break-in
* Friction reduction
* Battery dropping
* Custom stay
* Advanced mass damper setup

* Qualifying race
* Time-attack
* Elimination race
* Endurance race
* Street Mini 4WD

The **reinforced chassis** (Japanese: 強化シャーシ, *Kyōka Shāshi*) refers to the series of chassis that were made in the much stronger materials.

## How the reinforced chassis works

In Mini 4WD racing, a Mini 4WD car's chassis has rotating components (Gears, drive shafts etc.) that are part of the drivetrain that is driven a Mini 4WD car.

However, on circuits with a lots of up-down parts, the chassis will flexes too much, creating frictions within the car's drivetrain and thus causes power losses. This is more apparent with the chassis with weaker chassis structure, such as VS Chassis and Super-II Chassis.

The reinforced chassis are made in the materials that are stronger than the chassis's default material(s), which in turns more rigidity than the normal chassis and will less likely flexes. Because of their rigidity, the reinforced chassis are suitable for chassis's weight reduction by removing part of the chassis while remains rigid.

## The materials

The reinforced chassis are usually made in 3 different materials: carbon-mixed polyamide nylon, glass fiber-mixed ABS and polycarbonate-mixed ABS.

The glass fiber-mixed ABS chassis, as its name implies, was made with ABS plastic mixed with glass fibers. Although the toughness of the chassis is improved, many racers finds out that its yield strength is weak, leading to the front bumper of the car being breaks. Overtime, the glass fiber inside the chassis on the chassis part that holds the moving shafts would be exposed and would causes noticeable power losses.

The polycarbonate-mixed ABS chassis are usually have higher overall chassis strength than the glass fiber-mixed ABS chassis and doesn't suffers the problems as the latter. The friction of this material is lower, meaning it also had minimized the power losses of the car.

The carbon-mixed polyamide Nylon chassis has the highest overall strength. Due to the nylon and carbon being low friction materials, the chassis has low power losses than that of polycarbonate-mixed ABS chassis.

## Where to get the reinforced chassis

They were usually sold as limited Grade-up Parts and are available in various colors.

However, some regular release Mini 4WD car kits, came with the reinforced chassis by default. It included in some limited edition Mini 4WD kits: Tamiya item #94618 - #94625 (Magnum+ special kits etc.) for the glass fiber reinforced Super 1 and Super TZ chassis. Premium Mini 4WD car kits with Super 2 chassis, such as the Magnum Saber Premium, Sonic Saber Premium, Tridagger X Premium, Spin Cobra Premium, Victory Magnum Premium and Vanguard Sonic Premium, comes with polycarbonate reinforced abs plastic. CX-09 MaxBreaker TRF and Neo-Tridagger ZMC Carbon special comes with carbon-mixed polyamide nylon on a Super X and Super 2 chassis respectively.
Front Sliding Damper Roller

* Original
* Wide Roller Stay Set

The **Front Sliding Damper Roller** (Japanese: フロントスライドダンパーローラー, *Furonto Suraido Danpā Rōrā*) is a Mini 4WD front bumper parts released by Tamiya in October 29, 1995. Tamiya would later release the **Sliding Wide Roller Stay Set** (Japanese: スライド・ワイドローラーステーセット, *Suraido Waido Rōrā Sutē Setto*) in September 2008 that are wider than the original.

The Front Sliding Damper Roller, as well as Sliding Wide Roller Stay Set, are compatible with all chassis except the Type-1 Chassis, AR Chassis and MA Chassis and can be attaches to the front or the rear.

## General Info

Similar to Sliding Damper Roller set, the main purpose of the this parts is to provide smooth cornering in circuits with many S-style corners, as well as absorbing shocks while hitting the fences of the circuit.

It has a very well-known problem that it will causes speed loss on cornering while being installed only onto the front bumper with the soft spring setting. As such, it has to be accompanies with either the Sliding Damper Roller set, the Rear Sliding Damper and Brake Set, or install another similar set on the rear (if the minicar has the non-removable rear stay) to counters this. The sliding damper installed onto the front bumper can causes the recoil effect on the wave sections and the lane-change sections of the circuit with the hard spring setting.

The Sliding Wide Roller Stay Set is wider than the original set and is molded in glass-fiber ABS plastic, provides high strength, though it comes at a cost: the glass-fibers can be exposed overtime due to extensive wears, thus reduces the function of the Wide Roller Stay.

Only the original sets comes with two springs; With the soft spring, the sliding damper's plate will slides upon collides with the fences. With the hard spring however, it won't slides unless the car is push onto the fences very hard and will immediately recoils back to its originally state as soon as the car exited the corner curve, causing the aforementioned recoil effect.

The set also comes with the ball diff grease, but the sliding damper's responsive rate can be adjust using the Sliding Damper Grease Set or the HG Sliding Damper Grease Set.

## See also

* Sliding Damper Roller
* Rear Sliding Damper and Brake Set
* Wide Sliding Damper

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Front Sliding Damper Roller at Tamiya Japan
* Carbon Reinforced Wide Roller Stay (Damped) Mini 4WD GP 2013 at Tamiya Japan (Archived)

### Tamiya America

* Sliding Wide Roller Stay Set at Tamiya America
Hakurou Oohinata

**Hakurou Oohinata** (Japanese: 大日向 白郎, *Oohinata Hakurou*) is a character in the poster manga *The Wind Racer! Otokogi Gaiden*.

## Biography

Hakurou is a racer who won so many amateur races against many opponents. There are times where he rejects the challenge from other racers if he had other business.

Hakurou's modificaiton to his first car, the Little White Dragon, was complicated underneath its body. He also a tendency of keeping his car's modifications a secret.

## Synopsis

During Jingi and Ryou's visit to the shop, Hakurou was seen racing against other racers and won.

Hakurou was then challenged by Jingi, but refused because of, unbeknown to both Jingi and Ryou, having unfinished business with Baron Ghost few days prior. Hakurou's action leaves Ryou furious and led her to accidentally placed her Poseidon-X in the wrong direction of the track, resulting in the head-to-head collision with his Little White Dragon and shatter the latter to pieces.

With the promised race will be take place in the next day, Hakurou, with the help of Jingi who lend his Liberty Emperor to be use as a base, managed to created his second car, the Shao Bai Ron.

Despite having superior car, Hakurou lose against Baron Ghost and his Big Bang Ghost in the first race. Hakurou later managed to win the rematch with the help of Jingi who installed the Mantan steering system into the Shao Bai Ron.

## Mini 4WD cars

* Little White Dragon
* Shao Bai Ron
Future Racer V-Twin

***Future Racer V-Twin*** (Japanese: 未来レーサーブイツイン, *Mirai Rēsā Buitsuin*) is a manga series created by Kouichi Mitaka, serialized on Shogakukan's *Shogaku Years* magazines (Specifically, *Shogaku Year 1* and *Shogaku Year 2*) from April 1999 to March 2000.

As of 2024, there is no compiled volume release of the manga.

## Story

Taking place in the year 20XX where Mini 4WD cars can be controlled by programing and voice commands, Bui Tendou have bad luck and had just accidentally crashed his Progress-Hawk V in a race. By pure accident, Bui meet a strange Mini 4WD named V-tron, and unlike other Mini 4WD cars, it has a mind of its own. Unbeknown to him, V-tron is part of the VT Project.

Together with V-tron, Bui aims to be the best racer in the Mini 4WD race scene.

## Characters

* Bui Tendou
* Leon Kazama
* Professor Kutoba
* The Ryuga brothers
* Iwao Ijuin
* Edge
* Nikita

## Mini 4WD cars

* Progress-Hawk V (Bui's machine)
* V-tron (Bui's machine)
* Black Hawk (Leon's machine)
* VT-5
* Variatron (Bui's machine, upgraded from Vtron)
* Synchro-Master Z9 (Leon's machine, upgraded from Black Hawk)
* Ultimate Pretty Adonis III (Iwao's machine)
* Zex Caliber (Edge's machine)
* Cherry Bomb (Nikita's machine)
Hexagonite

* Original
* Black SP

The **Hexagonite** (Japanese: ヘキサゴナイト, *Hekisagonaito*) is a Mini 4WD PRO car that was released on December 22, 2018.

Prior to its general release, it was made available as a event-exclusive at Tamiya's Chrismas Festa 2018 tournament (Located at Twin Messe Shizuoka) and Mini 4WD Championship tournament (Located at Tamiya Japan HQ) that were held on December 8 to 9 and December 9 respectively.

One of the winner designs in the 2018 Mini 4WD Design Contest, it was designed by Tatsunori Ito.

## General info

The Hexagonite featuring the fully-cowled body design that is inspired by the SUV. The shape of hexagon is the main motif of the car, as most part of the bodyshell has sharp edge that resembles that of the hexagon. There's also a large spoiler on the rear.

### Standard variant

The bodyshell of the standard variant was mainly in light green and black, with the black rooftop on the center and two vertical white stripes running through the body.

It was equipped with the silver, small diameter low-profile 5-spoke Saber-type wheels paired with the black super-hard low-profile tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in light gray and light green respectively.

### Black Special

The Black Special features the smoke bodyshell with altered body decals.

It was equipped with the orange, small diameter low-profile 5-spoke Saber-type wheels paired with the black super-hard low-profile tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in orange and black respectively.

## Gallery

### Artworks

#### Concept arts

Concept 1 by Tatsunori Ito.Concept 2 by Tatsunori Ito.
## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Hexagonite at Tamiya Japan
* Hexagonite Black Special at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Hexagonite at Tamiya America
* Hexagonite Black Special at Tamiya America
Mini 4WD Lupine Racer 2

The **Mini 4WD Lupine Racer 2** (Japanese: ミニ四駆 オオカミ２, *Mini Yonku Ōkami Tsū*) is an upcoming Racing Mini 4WD car be released by Tamiya in 2023.

Based on the Thunder Shot Open Top, it was the 13th Mini 4WD car in the 'Animal Mini 4WD' sub-series following Mini 4WD Penguin Racer.

## General info

The Lupine Racer 2 has the dark blue bodyshell, with the orange and grey decals.

It comes with an all-new, white-colored arctic wolf driver figurine.

It was equipped with the fluorescent orange large diameter 5-spoke TZ-type wheels paired with the dark blue Avante-type slick tires. The polycarbonate-mixed ABS frame and the POM A-parts were molded in red and black respectively.

# Technical info =

## See also

### Related

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer
* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer GT

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer 2 at Tamiya Japan (Japanese)

### Tamiya America

* Mini 4WD Lupine Racer 2 at Tamiya America
Cross-Tiger VR

The **Cross-Tiger VR** (Japanese: クロスタイガーVR, *Kurosu Taigā Buiaru*) is a Mighty Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya in August 1998.

It was featured in the manga *Mini 4 Kids* as Kit Kudou's second machine.

## General info

The Cross-Tiger features the low-height, open-wheel body design, with the sharp front cowls, the half-covered rear fenders and a flat V-shaped rear spoiler. The large-size cockpit can be located on the front, sandwiched between the front cowls. There's a pair of air intakes behind the cockpit, which dissipates heat from the motor.

It also comes with a pair of bowl rollers, but depends on the model variants, they were molded in either the PS or ABS plastics.

### Standard model

The standard Cross-Tiger features the the gun metal body color, with the red, tiger stripes body decal with black trims on it. There's a pair of faux, oval-shaped headlamps on the front cowls.

It was equipped with the red, large diameter Mighty-type wheels paired with the black arched tires. The chassis frame and A parts molded were in Black. It doesn't come with a motor.

### Limited Edition

The Limited edition features the yellow body color, with the black tiger stripes body decal. The oval-shaped headlamps on the front cowls was replaced by a pair of tiger's eye.

It was equipped with the yellow, large diameter Mighty-type wheels paired with the black arched tires. The chassis frame and A parts molded were in Black. It also includes a pair of FDK-made alkaline batteries.

### Sea Blue Special variant

The Bunka-exclusive Sea Blue Special has the chassis replaced with a Super XX Chassis. It features the blue body color, with the two-tone gray/white tiger sprites body decal on it.

It was equipped with the blue, large diameter low-profile wheels paired with the sky blue low-profile tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in blue.

## In media

### *Mini 4 Kids*

The Cross-Tiger VR's creation is different between two versions of the same storyline:

* In version 1, the Cross-Tiger was created by Mr.Kubota and was later given to Kit Kudou who had his Tiger Zap destroyed in the previous chapter. As told by Mr.Kubota, the Cross-Tiger was incomplete, as it has some issues that needed to be iron out. Kit first use the Cross-Tiger while chasing a corporative terrorist who has the disc that contains Cross-Tiger's development data. During the incident, Mr.Kubota got a hint of what setting the Cross-Tiger should have and completed the car later on.
* In version 2, Kit had asked Mr.Kubota to develop a new machine for him in order to keeping up with Kakeru and his Dyna-Hawk GX. While it was completed, Kit doesn't like something about the new car, which later turned out to be having inferior cornering stability. Said flaws was later fixed with the GT parts, a pair of bowl rollers that were attached to the front bumper.

## See also

### Kit Kudou's machines

* Tiger Zap
* Strato Vector
Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and XMZ

The **Daihatsu Kopen (Future Included) RMZ / XMZ** (Japanese: ダイハツ コペン RMZ／XMZ, *Daihatsu Kopen Aruemuzetto / Ekkusuemuzetto*) is a limited edition Racing Mini 4WD car set produced by Tamiya and distributed by Daihatsu in December 2013.

The set was based on the Concept K cars of the same name by Daihatsu.

Both the RMZ and XMZ would later release individually a year later as the regular Mini 4WD car kits.

## General info

The set includes one chassis and two different bodyshells: one for the RMZ and one for the XMZ.

The Kopens featuring the two-seater convertible body designs that were based on the first-generation Copen. They has the triangular headlamps, the curve vertical sub-headlamp and the horizontal rear lamps. They has the large nose tip air intakes on the front. On the XMZ bodyshell, there's the additional gray parts, making it more sporty than the RMZ's.

The RMZ is mainly in blue, while the XMZ is mainly in metallic green.

The set has the silver, small-diameter 5-spoke Saber-type wheels paired with the black low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in black.

## About the Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and XMZ

The Daihatsu Kopen RMZ and the XMZ concept cars were unveiled during the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show. The concept cars has the special chassis frame, known as the D-frame, which allows owners to customize their cars by swapping the plastic outer shells (except for the doors).

The mass-production models, the Copen Robe and Copen XPlay, went into production in 2014, with the Robe in June and the XPlay in November.

## See also

* Daihatsu Kopen RMZ
* Daihatsu Kopen XMZ
Mini 4WD GB Let's & Go!

**Mini 4WD GB Let's & Go!** (Japanese: ミニ四駆GB Let's&Go!!, *{{{2}}}*) is a Mini 4WD video game developed by Creatures Inc.and published by ASCII, released for the Game Boy handhelds. The story is based around the second half of the first arc in Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!, facing against Ogami's Battle racers.
Competition Gear Set

The **Competition Gear Set** (Japanese: コンペティションギヤーセット, *Konpetishon Giyā Setto*) is a Grade-up parts released by Tamiya in 1989. It was a gear set made specifically for the Type-3 Chassis.

## General info

The set contains a pale brown G11 spur gear, a mustard yellow G12 counter gear, a 12t pinion gear, a hooked counter gear shaft and a grease tube.

The gear ratio of this gear set is 4:1 and has to be paired with 12t pinion gear. This is the lowest gear ratio for the Type-3 Chassis.

## Trivia

* While it was designed for Type-3 Chassis, it can be used on Type-1 Chassis. However said chassis with such gear set is prohibted in official race competitions.

## References

1. ↑ Mini 4WD Grade-Up Parts Matching List (Gear sets) (Japanese)
Aero Avante (1/1 scale car)

The **1/1 Scale Aero Avante** (Japanese: 1/1 ミニ四駆 エアロアバンテ, *1/1 Mini Yonku Earo Abante*) is a concept car made by Tamiya. It is a up-scaled and real car version of the Mini 4WD car of the same name.

Created from the Giant Mini 4WD Project, it was unveiled by Tamiya in Mega Web (a Toyota showroom located in Aomi, Koto of Tokyo in Japan) during the 2015 Japan Cup. The car was later repainted in the Yokohama Advan coloring and shown at Yokohama's booth at the 2023 Tokyo Auto Salon for a limited time.

## General info

The life-size car have most, if not all, unique designs and features of the the Mini 4WD car, from the body design, wheels, the front and rear bumper to the rollers. The body and the bumpers were made in FRP and Carbon-Fiber materials, while the rollers were made in aluminum. The bumpers can be detached from the car, which is useful for transporting the car in a trailer as the bumpers are too wide.

Its steel space-frame chassis is hand-made, and is supported by the 4-wheel independent, coil-over suspensions. It was powered by the modified Volkswagen Typ 126 1.6L air-cooled 4-stroke flat-4 overhead valve engine that was mated to the 4-speed manual gearbox, which transfers the power to the rear wheels. The placement of the engine and gearbox are mostly the same as the Mini 4WD car, albeit the engine and the gearbox were being mounted longitudinally which is a common engine placement orientation for most rear-mid engine cars.

Unlike the life-size Gun Bluster XTO, it was designed to only have a single Formula-1-styled seat for the driver.

## Technical info

**Length / Width / Height:** 4.65 m / 2.80 m / 1.44 m

**Weight:** n/a

**Engine / Transmission / Drivetrain:** Modified Volkswagen Typ 126 1600cc 4-Stroke Flat-4 Overhead Valve / 4-Speed Manual / Rear-Wheel-Drive

**Suspension / Wheel / Tire:** Coilover Suspensions (4-wheel Independent) / KMC XD801 CRANK 22" chrome / 295/30ZR22

**Top Speed:** 180 km/h

## External links

* Giant Mini 4WD Project special site (Archived)
* Tamiya News Jr. Vol. 184 (PDF) (Japanese)
Mini 4WD Fighter V

***Mini 4WD Fighter V*** (Japanese: ミニ四ファイターV, *Miniyon Faitā Bui*) is a manga series created by Takao Aoki and published on Shogakukan's *Monthly CoroCoro Comic* and *Besatsu CoroCoro Comic* magazine from March 15, 1995 to November 14, 1998 for a total of 8 volumes of 64 chapters.

## Overview

Mini 4WD Fighter, the iconic superhero of the Mini 4WD hobby! He loves the hobby just as much as the kids and shows his enthusiasm though his commentary through tournaments while cheering the racers in fair play.
Jingi Otokogi

**Jingi Otokogi** (Japanese: 俠 仁義, *Otokogi Jingi*) is the protagonist of the manga *The Wind Racer! Otokogi*.

## Biography

Jingi is a individual who wonders around the world, and refers himself as a migrant. He usually rides a modified bicycle (with high-rised handlebar) as a mean of transportation, and he can also use it as a mean to attacks with his "bicycle fists" technique.

Despite having traveled around the world, he only first came to know about Mini 4WD during the Tom Ghody incident. Jingi soon found out from the Wind Mage that he himself is the Wind Racer, one of the elemental racers and the one that leads the other elemental racers.

## Synopsis

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## Mini 4WD cars

* Thunder Shot Jr. (Borrowed)
* Liberty Emperor