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Found this while trawling for interesting articles.... what you'd get if a Cat and a Mini Mustang met together in the Nikko factory, I suspect....

This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

terry.sc wrote:This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

Acedemy had a go at it too!

Good to see you again Terry.

Cheers

Darryn

terry.sc wrote:This became the Mugen Mercury
http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=8889&id=37

You da man as always Terry....

Trust wldnas to have something like that.... he has some of the most... er..... "interesting" buggies in his collection...

Cheers.

Alex

I'm quite sure Graupner sold this under their name in Germany at one point too.
I think it's the first time i see anything under the shell of it, though something blurry tells me it could have figured in RCCA once.

It is indeed a mugen.
Ryuz was a shop in Japan (no longer in business). They produced parts for various cars, a bit like RPS was doing in the States. Japanese Mugen 'works' drivers were running Ryuz parts.
I recall the Ryuz shop made once a FWD 2wd buggy that was posting faster lap times than Hirosaka's RC10 at the Japanese Nats ('91 or '92 I believe).
I think I have pictures of that car somewhere...

R-NO wrote: I recall the Ryuz shop made once a FWD 2wd buggy that was posting faster lap times than Hirosaka's RC10 at the Japanese Nats ('91 or '92 I believe).
I think I have pictures of that car somewhere...

Please post them if you do.

here it is

that car is truely awesome, looks like a French proto from the declas... and it also looks like there's a Stealth in it! Too bad thos FWD cars were banned

Sweeeeet - runs an RCL Incident body!!

Very cool in a freaky kind of way!!

Cheers

Darryn

Ugly as sin. But damn cool.

R-NO wrote:here it is

OH WOW!!! i havent seen that thing in years, i spent hours trying to make my 6 gear in to a copy of it. didnt work of course.lol

I have a set of Ryuz Aluminum driveshafts for the YZ10 so they were still going in the mid nineties. Beautifully made

I have a nice little stash of RYUZ spairs for my Nikko Brat....very cool looking stuff.

Does anybody have more pictures and info on the Ryuz FF and other Japanese and European privateer/small mfg FF cars of the time that were working succesfully in competition?Thanks a million for the beautiful info and memories connected with this site.