Modified Tamiya WR02 Willy's Wheeler chassis becomes Honda City Turbo RC drift car
released
new
Tamiya
SNU fit: 30/100
≈ Possibly covered in episode 342: “Tamiya Honda City Turbo”
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Capped at 30: reliably dated 2026-07-27 — old news, not next-episode material. This is a community modification/build project (drift conversion of a Tamiya WR02 chassis), not an official Tamiya product launch, so it falls under the community project category (60-85) rather than the major-brand kit category. The date is high-confidence and recent (within ~10 days per crawler pattern), with launch_signals newness, supporting a mid-range score. It's on-theme for a scale/community-build show but the
Evidence (1)
Community project
tamiyablog.com
Jul 27, 2026
date: json_ld · high
Modified Tamiya WR02 Willy's Wheeler chassis becomes Honda City Turbo RC drift car
A community builder modified a Tamiya WR02 chassis (originally from the Willy's Wheeler kit) to create a custom Honda City Turbo RC drift car, as featured on the Japanese blog DOSLOG.
newness: launch_signals
product_line: WR02 Willy's Wheeler / Honda City Turbo drift build
newness_evidence: linked from a monitored brand's Facebook page on 2026-08-02