Tamiya Complete 1996

[Dangeruss]

Did you know Tamiya models were sold complete with mechanical speed controllers, motors and bodies? If you didn't, Tamiya wanted to make sure you did, devoting an entire full-page ad to inform buyers of the pluses to their kits and pitfalls that may await others. Predominantly displayed at the top of the page was the mechanical speed controller that Tamiya had already begun phasing out, leaving an increasing number of kits without a speed controller and paradoxically incomplete. Add to that the TA02W based Nismo GTR pictured at the bottom of the page, right next to the part number not for the GTR, but for the FF-01 based Toyota Toms EXIV JTCC. Suddenly, investigating by the consumer would seem prudent, despite Tamiya's insistence against it in this ad from 1996: