The Winning Bird (ウイニングバード) is a Mini 4WD car released by Tamiya. It comes with the choice of larger rollers in additions to the standard, small rollers. It is the second Mini 4WD car from the Dream Attack project by Tamiya.
It is featured in the manga Mini 4 Top as Toppu Kudo's upgraded machine from his Rising Bird.
General Info
Unlike its predecessor, the Winning Bird have more blockly body design and is dominated by silver and blue color, with black and red trims on it. It also lost the rear wings, and in its place are the pair of fins that compenses the lacks of rear wings.
The low-height, flat design was inspired by the Formula 1 car's body design as well as the jet fighter's sharp design.
Unlike Rising Bird, the chassis is now molded in black.
While the boxart depicts the Winning Bird equiped with the standard rollers, the actually assembled mini car can be equiped with the larger rollers as seen in the manga, depends on user's choice.
In 2015, Tamiya releases the 21st Century Edition of the Winning Bird which has different color schemes and different chassis (VS Chassis), and it was the limited prize car.
In the manga
All 6 Shogaku Year serializations of the Mini 4 Top has Toppu replaced the Rising Bird with the Winning Bird (though in Top 6 version he own the car right from the beginning).
Technical Info
Length: 127 mm
Width: 92 mm (With large rollers)
Height: 45 mm
Chassis: Type-3 Chassis, VS Chassis (21st Century Edition)
Gear set(s): 5:1 and 6.4:1 (Original), 4:1 (21st Century Edtion)
Gallery
Boxarts
See Also
Rising Bird - Winning Bird's predecessor, also the first Mini 4WD in the Dream Attack project.