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I'm looking to get something different and remembered a couple of companies made offroad cars that were front wheel drive. The only offroad car with front wheel drive that I can remember is the Kyosho Maxxum. What other front wheel drive offroad cars were made? Also how did they run (I assume not well)?

Some of the magazine articles and posts here were one-off scratch-builts. Nichimo made the Spirit FF, one of the few FWD kits that I ever saw. Good luck!

you're going to have to search hard but there are actually some pictures of multiple FWD buggies on this site.
One of the better threads is here: http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5595

MRC is a french company that had a commercially released buggy also.
In Japan a couple guys used the optima mid gearbox for their FWD creations. I unknowingly copied that idea for a FWD tourer prototpye many years later

Here's a pic of the Kyosho Maxxum..you don't see them very often..I have a mint hardly used one..

http://www93.sakura.ne.jp/~time-tunnel/08-4-27-1.html

13th pic down is an interesting little dude.

I was given the radio to drive that one round the track a couple times. You had to really accelerate on the bumps to make it jump well: fun but a little hard when you have a turn close behind it.
The Paranoia spur made an end to the fun when it cut a nice groove into the pinion.
The car was made of bits and pieces from different cars and lots of dremeling. The gearbox was from an optima mid.

The track owners also had a home-made FWD I have pictures of. Not sure if I've posted them

Take the rear dog bones out of the Hot Shot .

YA Know i have big of enough problem with finishing all the projects i have started now....Then U go and post some of these pics I remember reading all those articles{not french or asian} of course but if it was In SPANGLISH well let me tell ya after a CORONA IM speaking in Toungue... I remember reading and seeing that Yellow rig years ago....COOL to SEE again...THIS GETS 4M planing for another BUILD------DAMN U GUYS-----CAN you run in any class now in states...

Brandon G wrote:http://www93.sakura.ne.jp/~time-tunnel/08-4-27-1.html

13th pic down is an interesting little dude.

, did Mr Masami make that?

Brandon G wrote:http://www93.sakura.ne.jp/~time-tunnel/08-4-27-1.html

13th pic down is an interesting little dude.

I've seen that before also...Ryuz I want to say was the name.

google gave me this:

http://www.ymr.no/bilder/historie/BUGGY/RyuzFF/1.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q207/piktophoto/RuyzFF.jpg

Ryuz was a little different

They look similar, but the car in pic 13 was built much much later. The owner built it shortly before the event.
That Ryuz car ran in the vintage class at Yatabe not long after I left. The detailed pictures are on time-tunnel and on this forum (page 3 of the link I posted further above)

I wonder if the FWD rigs wrk better with those long traling arms or more of a traditional arm set up in back.

There's a FWD car in BST....Kyosho Maxxum....

JK Racing wrote:

Brandon G wrote:http://www93.sakura.ne.jp/~time-tunnel/08-4-27-1.html

13th pic down is an interesting little dude.

I've seen that before also...Ryuz I want to say was the name.

google gave me this:

http://www.ymr.no/bilder/historie/BUGGY/RyuzFF/1.jpg
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q207/piktophoto/RuyzFF.jpg

Ryuz was a little different

everytime i see that buggy i want to break out the dremel, some fiberglass and derlin stock and start something of my own. i love those buggies. real works of art.

Vette i feel exactly the same way. when i get some projects finished i want to start one those r the coolist of the exotics of our hobby