Ray Stinger

* Original
* Premium

The **Ray Stinger** (Japanese: レイスティンガー, *Rei Sutingā*) is a Fully Cowled Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya on October 8, 1996.

It was featured in the manga and anime *Bakusou Kyoudai Let's & Go!* as Rei Hijikata's machine.

## General info

The Ray Stinger features the fully-cowled body design, with flat bonnet and each wheel having their own fenders. it has the sharp-tip front fenders, a rear vertical fin and the red headlamps. There's a pair of two air-intakes on the rear fenders and there's also the gold (gray on the Premium variant) pipelines hidden inside the front of them.

There's the dust-like decals on the front fenders and the crack-like decals on the rear fenders.

All but the Premium variant were equipped with the V-machine-type side guard attachment, the small diameter 3-spoke Fully Cowled-type wheels and the high-profile slick tires.

### Ray Stinger and Premium

The standard Ray Stinger and the Premium variant has the metallic silver body color, with the brown highlight (gray on Premium) and black stripes.

The standard model was equipped with the gray side guard attachment and red wheels, and has the chassis frame and A parts molded in gray and green respectively.

The Premium variant. on the other hand, was equipped with the white small diameter low-profile Saber wheels with the black low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and A parts were molded in deep blue and metallic gray respectively. It comes with the EX Side Stay molded in gun metal gray.

A Special kit variant (which bundled with the bodyshell of the Fire Stinger) comes with a chassis frame molded in the glassfiber-mixed ABS plastic.

Only the Special Kit and the Premium variant comes with a standard motor.

### Night Seeker

The Charatoru-exclusive Night Seeker models are consists of four color models: Red, black, violet and white. The body decals works best with the black model.

Depends on the color variants, it either came with the yellow chassis frame, black A parts, yellow side guard and black tires, or red chassis frame, gray A parts, red side guard and white tires. All variants were equipped with the red-plated, small diameter 3-spoke Fully Cowled-type wheels paired with high-profile slick tires.

## In media

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

The Ray Stinger is a battle race machine created by Dr. Ogami and was belongs to Rei Hijikata.

It has the infrared light reaction mechanism in which the car follows the infrared light pointed by Rei's own ring, and even able to do quick turns and U-turns where the normal machines can't. It has a ZMC-made needle hidden inside its front nose that can pierce anything.

In the manga, the Ray Stinger's front fenders are movable and used to destroys any machines by sandwiching them with the fenders. It doesn't make any noise. There's also the mass-produced Ray Stingers, which has darker body color than the original.

In chapter 3 of *Return Racers!*,Rei's Ray Stinger was ultimately destroyed by the Death Angels' Mini 4WD cars along with Gen's Brocken Gigant and Kai's Beak Spider and was modified into the Beak Stinger G by Crusher Jiro himself. After the race with the Seiba brothers, Jiro reverted the cars and gave them back to the Ogami trio.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the Ray Stinger.Boxart of the Premium variant.
## Trivia

* In *Let's & Go!*, the Ray Stinger doesn't have the front bumper like its real-life Mini 4WD counterpart has.

## See also

* Fire Stinger
* Phoenix Stinger
* Chevalier de Rose
* Beak Stinger G

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Ray Stinger at Tamiya Japan
* Ray Stinger Special Kit at Tamiya Japan (Archived)
* Ray Stinger Premium at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Ray Stinger Special Kit at Tamiya America
* Ray Stinger Premium at Tamiya America

### Charatoru

* Ray Stinger Night Seeker at Charatoru (Japanese)