AutoTamiya Wild One Max might just be the perfect £35k EVElectric off-roader is the first street-legal vehicle from The Little Car CompanyWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
AutoTamiya Wild One Max might just be the perfect £35k EVElectric off-roader is the first street-legal vehicle from The Little Car CompanyWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Electric off-roader is the first street-legal vehicle from The Little Car Company
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
“And for my next trick,” you can imagine Ben Hedley, founder and boss of The Little Car Company, saying before pulling the covers off his latest creation. Coming after miniature, third-scale versions of the Bugatti Type-35,Aston Martin DB5and Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, comes this, a full-size version of the Tamiya Wild One.
For those who aren’t children of the 1980s and 90s, the Tamiya Wild One was a hugely popular, 1/10th scale remote control buggy, first released back in 1985.
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
Features include a pair of Cobra bucket seats with four-point harnesses, a 5in dashboard display, Brembo disc brakes and adjustable Bilstein dampers with Eibach springs. The cockpit is wide enough for two adults and the vehicle measures 3.6m long, 1.9m wide, and has 270mm of ground clearance. It weighs about 500kg with all batteries on board.
The buggy is road legal, as it complies with the L7e quadricycle regulations in the UK and EU. That’s the same set of rules that allow small electric vehicles like the Citreon Ami to also be road legal.
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
(Image credit: The Little Car Company)
Revealed this week is a special Launch Edition of the WIld One Max. Limited to 100 examples, it comes with a carbon fibre dashboard with matching key, and a titanium plaque in the cabin to show off its rarity. Customers who buy this version will also receive a Tamiya Wild One model kit, to build while they wait for their full-size car to arrive.
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Speaking of which, the first deliveries of the Wild One Max, which arrives fully assembled instead of in kit form, will be delivered to customers from 2024. The Launch Edition is priced at £35,000 plus VAT and shipping, and can be secured with a 10% deposit.
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