The DCR-01 (DCR-01, pronounced as 'Decross Zero One') is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya in April 2017 in oversea regions and on May 27, 2017 in Japan.
It was designed by Takayuki Yamazaki of pdc_designworks.
General info
The DCR-01 features the futuristic, low-height open-wheel body design.
What set it apart from most Mini 4WD cars is that it has the special Cross System bodyshell. It consists of three parts: the front cowl, the rear cowl and the canopy, and any of them can be swapped for other color parts. Alternatively, racer can even assemble the bodyshell without the canopy parts, making it a open top bodyshell.
It was mainly in pearl red, with black and white stripes and carbon patterns.
It was equipped with the newly designed, large diameter 6-spoke low-profile wheels molded in gun metal gray, paired with low-profile slick tires. The chassis frame and subparts were also molded in white.
About the designer and the company
Born in 1972 in Nagano Prefecture, Takayuki Yamazaki (やまざきたかゆき, formely as 山崎隆之 before leaving Honda R&D) is a designer and the founder of the Japanese design company pdc_designworks. He is also a former Honda employee, also working as a designer from 1995 to 2012.
In 2012, after leaving Honda R&D, Yamazaki founded his own design company, which not only focuses on creating designs for cars and bikes, but also fashion, hobby toys and gadgets.
Although the aforementioned DCR-01 is the first Mini 4WD car designed by Yamazaki, this is not the first Tamiya product he had designed; He had previously designed the body of Tamiya's 1/10 scale R/C buggy Dual Ridge (based upon the TT-02B Chassis), which was released on October 1, 2014.[1]
Technical info
Length: 156 mm
Width: 97 mm
Height: N/A
Chassis: MA Chassis
Gear Set(s): 4:1
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Trivia
- It is the first Mini 4WD car to features the modular bodyshell. In this case, the Cross System bodyshell.
- It was chosen to be the cover car for the 2017 season of the Tamiya Japan Cup.