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Thanks again to our friends at HobbyMedia.It we get to see the first in-the-wild pictures of Kyosho‘s new Inferno Neo Race Spec from the 2010 Tokyo Hobby Show.  There’s not much info available just yet except that it’s going to be a RTR with a 2.4 GHz radio and the Kyosho KE25 engine.  No word [...]

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Our friends from HobbyMedia.it are currently covering the Japan Hobby Show, and have sent a few pics our way of the new Kyosho V-One R4 Nitro vehicle. It looks pretty darn sweet! How often do you see a new RC vehicle and say ‘whoa.. look at that!’ These pics are from the 1/8th scale on-road [...]

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It’s always cool to see our favorite hobby get a bit of notice in other more mainstream pastimes like movies, tv, and full scale racing.  Today brings a bit of attention to one of the biggest and oldest names in R/C, Kyosho.  Gran Turismo 5 for the PlayStation 3 is coming this November, and it [...]

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I missed this one because I’ve been overly excited about E3 (Sony had a couple nice surprises at their keynote today, if you missed it head to GameTrailers for the replay).  Sorry about that.  Anywho, Kyosho has a new 1/18 scale 4wd Buggy in the Mini Inferno.  The Mini Inferno is a scaled down version [...]

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Well, today must be a day that ends in Y because Kyosho has announced another Mini-Z.  Their new MA-010 AWD SP Limited kit is another limited edition (only 2000 will be made before the molds are thrown into a violently erupting volcano and lost forever!) Mini-Z.  This one is in kit form and requires the [...]

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Kyosho‘s solid axled, stylish, monster truck, the Mad Force Kruiser, is getting a makeover.  The Mad Force Kruiser VE readyset is ready to go with a ton of brushless power.  It features Team Orion‘s Vortex brushless system with a 2000 Kv motor.  Other features include hardened steel diffs, a shaft and chain drive train, full [...]

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Kyosho has a high-end addition to the Mini-Z line.  The new MR-03N JSCC Edition is a limited run chassis with all kinds of option parts included as standard.  A few of the options include a full ball bearing set, ball differential set, rear oil filled shock set, and carbon fiber friction shock set.  The chassis [...]

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Kyosho is taking their Ultima SC RTR and turning it into a full blown race kit called the Ultima SC-R. Not a lot of info is available right now, but they do say that it’s going to be loaded with high performance parts from the other Ultima race kits like velvet coated shocks, a ball [...]

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More news from the Shizuoka Hobby Show.  Kyosho is showing off a new version of the well known Inferno MP9.  The T.K.I. 2 is going to be Kyosho’s new flagship 1/8 scale buggy, destined to be sitting atop podiums around the world.  There isn’t much other info about this new buggy yet, but it will [...]

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Courtesy of our friends at Hobby Media.It we have some hands-on pictures of Kyosho‘s recently announced nitro powered Formula-1 car, the KF01-GP, from the Shizuoka Hobby Show.  It’s a fine looking automobile, even if it doesn’t conform to the new full-scale F1 specs.

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New from Kyosho is the KF01 GP Formula 1 nitro vehicle! It’s got a 3mm aluminum chassis, and come in kit form, though I believe it will include a Siro motor. So all you need is electronics and a starter. I haven’t seen anyone racing Formula 1 at the local on-road truck, but it would [...]

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Here’s Kyosho‘s next entry in their popular and championship winning Inferno line. The Inferno NEO is a complete RTR package, all you need is a glow igniter, batteries for the radio gear, and nitro. It comes loaded with a GX21BK big block engine, the same wheels as on the MP9 competition Inferno, a new super [...]

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Geezuss I’m getting tired of lame “teaser” press releases. A fine example of this was the tease put out by our broken English speaking friends at Kyosho America a couple weeks ago. The promise was “Something BIG” was coming from them. What did it turn out to be? Well the “BIG” news was that Kyosho [...]

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