{"id":5542,"date":"2024-06-29T05:21:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T05:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5542"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:31:45","slug":"tamiya-big-wing-runs-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=5542","title":{"rendered":"Tamiya Bigwig runs great!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-29-at-12.38.29.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">If you were a kid with even a passing interest in RC cars in the late 80s, you knew the name. It wasn\u2019t just a model; it was a statement. Perched on hobby shop shelves, its massive, exposed tires and radical, futuristic body looked less like a car and more like a moon buggy designed by a mad scientist. This was the\u00a0<strong>Tamiya Bigwig<\/strong>, and its significance in the RC world is not just nostalgic\u2014it\u2019s foundational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Released in 1987, the Bigwig wasn&#8217;t Tamiya&#8217;s first 4WD buggy. That crown belongs to the legendary Hotshot. But the Bigwig was something different. It was Tamiya\u2019s audacious answer to a simple question:\u00a0*What if we took the rough-terrain capability of 4WD and made it look and feel utterly insane?*<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid Tamiya BigWig\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQ-hxTUKeDc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rcpress vid Tamiya Bigwig\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4dJ1xtrZTJE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tamiya Bigwig on grassland\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lgl06iYTiyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RCPRESS vid Tamiya Big Wig\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJUNlLeQ5E0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were a kid with even a passing interest in RC cars in the late 80s, you knew the name. It wasn\u2019t just a model; it was a statement. Perched on hobby shop shelves, its massive, exposed tires and radical, futuristic body looked less like a car and more like a moon buggy designed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5542"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8276,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5542\/revisions\/8276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}