Team Associated releases "Yokomo" YZ10 Classic

[Foxhound]

I'm kind of confused by this...I don't mind the car, but isn't Yokomo still around?

https://60years.associatedelectrics.com/yz-10-classic-kit/

 

[xjtorc]

Yokomo is still very much around. Yokomo's Website

AE and Yokomo collab'd on this buggy design back in the 80s.

 

[Foxhound]

Yokomo is still very much around. Yokomo's Website

AE and Yokomo collab'd on this buggy design back in the 80s.

That's cool, I had never known that they had collabed on it back in the day, but I did remember their team drivers racing each others cars in 2wd/4wd.

I saw that Yokomo's website is up, but being in Japanese I had no idea if they're still selling cars or just kept the site up. I guess I could have checked a US retailer...

A-Main has them

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

am i trippin ballz or is Yokomo still a player in on road racing? could also swear they have a semi popular drift car.

 

[RetroThutmose]

the best part about this is... ALL METRIC HARDWARE!!!!!!

 

[Foxhound]

am i trippin ballz or is Yokomo still a player in on road racing? could also swear they have a semi popular drift car.

I've been out of the loop of RC for about 25 years now, I know a lot of companies have come and gone and seeing Associated selling old Yokomo buggies I thought they might not have made it.

Nothing against them, I know for sure they ruled 1/10 4wd buggy for a long time and it sounds like they've done some other good things in the industry more recently.

 

[xjtorc]

am i trippin ballz or is Yokomo still a player in on road racing? could also swear they have a semi popular drift car.

Yep. They're still very much a player. Being a Japanese company, we just don't see them much here.

My first drift car was a Yokomo back in the early 2000s. It was AWD (they all were back then) and it had a one-way bearing on the center driveshaft that allowed you to "e-brake" stopping the rear wheels when you hit the brake but allowing the fronts to keep spinning. That thing was FUN.