being head of tamiya.!

[nismospeed]

hey all

just been thinking, ive realised that tamiya make alot of touring cars, a few buggy's and the odd big box on huge wheels....

if you where head president of the tamiya company, WHAT! type of car would you invent?...

off road? on road?

fast, slow

realistic, insane?

own idea, or a replica of a car of a fav movie, show...

theres alot of cars id like to see done....duke's of hazard, fast and furios..back to the futer..etc...

get your thinking caps on ppl

dan

[netsmithUK]

I'd definately make a few more pick-ups - there are lots of nice 1:1 ones around now, which would translate to models very nicely.

I just wonder if the licensing deals have all just gone through the roof now, making it harder for Tamiya to make these models?

Chris

[TamiyaBeaterFleet]

If I had control of Tamiya, I would develop the wickedest/Nastyest Rock Crawler Tamiyaclub/Rcmt/clodtalk/jim's/rcmx has ever seen. Granted it would cost a ton.

I would also bring back the smaller trucks/buggys to their greatness.

Totally trash the tl/dagger system of drivetrain and bring back simplicity because simplicity is fun.

It looks like somebodys head exploded trying to think up shells for these ugly buggies. If i was forced to buy a tamiya buggy nowadays, do you know what i would pick? i would pick the SUPER HORNET!

Also as head of tamiya i would re-release :

Bruiser/Mounty

BF/MB/frog

Jugg2 kit as well for the shells

lunch box

kits 1-50

Of course all of my fantasy "executive decisions" would cause tamiya to spiral out of business at an incredibly fast rate. But screw it, my company and i want a *******in Bruiser [8D]

[bholio]

- Rerelease all of the old hard plastic car and truck hard bodies.

- Create a new XC chassis with fine enough wheelbase & width adjustments to accomodate all of the old bodies. They would just need a number of rear body and axle mount points, telescoping driveshafts and a number of replaceable suspension arms for different widths. The XC already accomdates 2 wheelbases, as the CRV is longer. The only difference is the driveshaft, and a real telescoping driveshaft would eliminate that.

Have a number of XC kits (maybe with new, modern bodies), and then sell the vintage bodys as add-ons, packaged with the correct suspension arms, and instructions on how to reset the body and suspension mounts for that body.

- Release a 'dummy' chassis with wheels, tires and body mounts to display the unused XC bodies.

[sparky]

My Guess is that for kits 1-50 and for many any other kits as well - they have already paid for licensing so re-releasing these would only be the cost of the tooling that they would have to create on their end if the original tooling/molds was no longer up to production standards.

Tamiya would make money re-releasing these. By today's standards, they could sell a NIB SS or RR for $500 and this would be a bargain for buyers and surely they could make a profit with their mass production efforts.

Would they should do in my opinion is just bring one of the original buggies back like the SS, RR or F150 - in limited re-release and then based on customer response and profits determine if they should do this for several other 1-50 models as a business decision for profitability.

Again, choosing to re-release one of these would be a drop in the bucket for them and they would make money with today's market prices.

Just my 2 cents.

Sparky []

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

i would like to invent some classic cars like the morris minor and austin devon......... some would say a austin what now[?]

also the big old yanks like the cool 59 caddy, what about the red fury from the movie christine[}]

and definatly a tamiya radio control jonny 5[]

[J3cubfan]

I am with Netsmith, I'd like to see a couple of pickups get thrown in for good measure. I like the Toyota Tundra that someone did a concept of a couple of years back.

On road cars, I'd have to go with anything Audi. I particularly fancy the A6.

As for anytype of buggy. The hotshot with a high stance. I think they sit too low to the ground, about a 1 inch higher would suffice. Any extraordinary, well, since Tamiya is breaking into the military aspect of things, maybe one of these.

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Oh and each body would be a hard plastic one[^]

[Big Al(2)]

If I was head of Tamiya, my number 1 priority would be to make sure that every kit comes with a driver figure!!!

-Big Al

[steed]

I'd comission the following

ford GT40

68/69 Mustang from bullitt

a re-released 959

Porsche carera GT

Aston Martin Vantage V8

I would also include bearings, oil shocks, ball diffs and masking stickers for all the required parts of the shell.

P.S Bin monocoque chassis and change everything to bathtubs

P.P.S Never make another one of those poxy, stoopid impreza's ever again!

Rant over

[Martin71RS(2)]

a scale replica of my 1:1 car []

Martin71RS

[mud4fun]

LOL, I'd be for producing some more pickups, specifically new toyota or mitsubishi L200 (I'm biased there!) as I'm getting a bit bored of the same old ford f150 etc. I'd manufacturer them with proper ladder chassis as in the 3 speeds.

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I would scrap the TL01 chassis and ban impreza's (even though I now own 3 impreza shells for my thundershots [:I] )

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I'd start up a new division for adult toys and start manufacture of the Cherry 2000...[][8D][][] (You'd have to have seen the film to understand that one)

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My TOP OF THE RANGE car would be a 1/8 scale, Land Rover Defender 90, with ladder chassis, scale axles and suspension, the engine would be a tiny fully operational V8 [][]

[Shodog]

I would probably bankrupt the company by producing highly detailed cars and truck that nobody would buy.

Jim

[mjohnston39]

I second (thrid; whatever) the call for well detailed pick-up bodied cars. I guess it was allready mentioned but a Tundra would be nice, or what about the new F150/F350 superduty? Take these bodies and place them on variety of chassis, make on road versions and maybe an XC derative.

Mike

[petercabrio]

What about some 60s / 70s american muscle cars

Shelby cobra gt500

Hemi Baracuda

Shelby Cobra

of course re release Monster beetle with some additions

and some concept cars ie jaguar XK 180 (as seen on top gear last year, open topped thing)

peter

[nismospeed]

well this kicked off hey!

id really lick to see a few lowrider..you know those pimp cars..ones that are really low and long..i think they look cool, like the out of the origanal gone in 60 seconds...

dan

[AstroVannin]

Definantly nice thoughts, but.. Anyone remember what happened to Nissan a while back. They had a different chassis for every car, in fact in the case of the 240sx they had 3 seperate assembly lines running to produce one car with 3 different suspention setups. At the end of the day Nissan was in the red, big time. I think the same would be true of Tamiya. Dont get me wrong some more nice hard bodies would be nice for sure, and I would be the first in line for an XC TRD Toyota Tacoma. But I think that anyones plan for being the "Head of Tamiya" should include continuing to mass produce generic chassis with a ton of different bodies to fund the re-issues and mega expensive niche market models. Mind you a lexan bodied '85 Honda civic m chassis would be nice[]

[nismospeed]

yes agree there as well.....but it would be nice though to see a rerealese of alot of the older models..even with a new design chassis..but still keep the realistic look to them...

but still, we can only keep our finger crossed and hope they listen to us..lol

dan

[Shodog]

Realistically speaking I can't imagine that you could run the company much differently than how it currently is. I am sure there are some R/C car nuts worse than us that work for Tamiya. They probably have all kinds of great ideas for new products. The problem is they are hampered by the reality of any business environment.

Tamiya is in it to make money. licensing agreements cost a lot of money. Development and Manufacturing to high standards also costs a lot. You have to look at whether a proposed car would even sell in high enough numbers to justify the costs and make a good profit margin to produce it. You have to look at the market to see what trends are popular. Larger than life monster trucks and touring sedans rule the market. That is what Tamiya is making.

I don't think that many of their scale r/c's sell in enough numbers to make it worth their wile. Evidence of this is their Pajero XB. It is RTR with scale proportion but yet they discontinued it.

jim

[mjohnston39]

quote:I don't think that many of their scale r/c's sell in enough numbers to make it worth their wile. Evidence of this is their Pajero XB. It is RTR with scale proportion but yet they discontinued it.

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Depends what you mean by scale, I would suggest that most of Tamiya r/c's are infact "scale", look at their new Xanavi GT-R, a very detailed replica of a real car.

Mike

[mymonsterbeetleisbroken]

quote:Larger than life monster trucks and touring sedans rule the market. That is what Tamiya is making.

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am i right in saying the only big monster truck tamiya is making at the mo is the txt-1[?] with that nasty body[]

(the terra crusher is a buggy so thats not included[])

bring back the juggy 2! thats what i say, the only mod i would do if i was boss would be better suspension, or maybe a TXT-2 is needed[]

[Tamiya1/10]

I would do what the market dictates and keep my shareholders happy. The chance of doing a re-release for any of the 3 spds or the metal cars like SS, RR will be zero to nil as the cost of bring than bacin relation to the potential sales won't add up. How many people in this world can fork out US$300 to US$500 for a re-release 3 spd hence Tamiya stop producting them. We all regret not buying the metal cars is because most of us can't effort them when we were young and had hair. The pumpkin, beetle and hornet are still in production is because they are cheap and new comers can effort them. Is all about the bottom line. Who knows maybe the over engineer RC is the next big trend than Tamiya and Kyosho will release realistic RC from the 3 spds for Tamiya to the Pajero, 4 runneres for Kyosho. The tycial Club members are just too small of a market to justify any of the old re-release we are a very small niche market and we are left with paying big bucks for old quality stuff. I noticed the collectors are heading toward Avante.

[Scorchio]

quote:Originally posted by steed

I'd comission the following

ford GT40

68/69 Mustang from bullitt

a re-released 959

Porsche carera GT

Aston Martin Vantage V8

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[^][^] Appart from gt40 & mustang very close to my list! But great Ideas! I'd buy em.

I know its no longer finantially viable but a couple of metal chassis cars would be nice. I'd also like a 'PROPER' Ford f150 on a 3 speed type chassis, I never did like the wing roof on the blazer.

Last but by no means least a range of hard body TVRs MMMMMMMM[][] Oh yeah and I'd put my super rover in my showroom into production.

God help Tamiya if I get control[}][}][}]

[fury_dice(2)]

This is a great thread, with a good balance between the 'market forces' advocates and the 're-release the first 50' brigade.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but don't Tamiya have the wherewithall to satisfy both ?? I'm thinking of the engineering/manufacturing that goes into the 'big trucks'; we've got metal frame chassis's, three-speed(?) boxes and highly detailed hard bodies. Yes they're pricey, but they do sell (otherwise uncle Tamiya wouldn't make them). I reckon the same production lines could be adapted to make a great range of scale off-roaders - we could even have a pick-up equivalent of the sound, light and vibration units [8D]

[mud4fun]

of course to meet market demand I'd probably have to fit a blue subaru impresz shell to the V8 land rover chassis [][][]

[El Mexican]

I believe some of you are not giving the proper merit to the TC as a viable source for Tamiya to obtain information.

Big companies will pay thousands of dollars in market research, focus and discussión groups, surveys and questionares to justifiably start to produce and then sell a product.

With the TC, our friends of Tamiya obtain a ton of information from a group of people that are willing to buy their products.

How many people participate in these forums on a permanent basis? 100? 150? If your Tamiya, you cant ignore that.