TEST DRIVE
TAMIYA
AVANTE
WORDS KEVIN HETMANSKI
PHOTOS HOPE MCCALL
HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE SAID “REMEMBER WHEN”? WE ALWAYS RELIVE OUR PAST
and think of good times, especially RC nuts like us. We often think about the cool RC cars that
we had or wanted when we were kids. For me, one such RC vehicle was the Tamiya Avante. This
buggy was technologically advanced for its time and was designed to win races for Tamiya. For
some, the only reason to have this buggy in their RC lineup was because it looked so cool. Even
to this day, we never saw a suspension system like this on any buggy, and it looks like it’s from
another planet. Over the past few years, Tamiya has been re-releasing some of their more popular vehicles, and many of us have been waiting for this one. It comes with a few changes over
the original buggy, and all of them were designed to improve performance and durability. For the
RC veterans out there, this will be a great flashback to your childhood, and the newbies will be
amazed by this awesome buggy.
BEING
NUTS
IS
NEAT
