Why provide this information? Replacement parts and brushless upgrades, that's why!
Taiyo R/C and Tyco RC cars use a variety of small electric motors, primarily those manufactured by Mabuchi, a Japanese company world renowned for a century as one of the highest quality electric motor companies ever to exist. You will find the motor type shown on most R/C car pages, but some remain unknown. Comment if you can help!
Small and Medium R/C cars
The Mabuchi 130 motor was used by the Taiyo Radican series, and Tyco Canned Heat series radio controlled cars, such as:
Taiyo Back to the Future Delorean
Tyco Canned Heat '57 Chevy Coca Cola
View All R/C Cars with the Mabuchi 130 Motor
The Mabuchi 260 Motor / RE-260 was used by over 20 radio controlled cars, including:
Plus all equivalent Taiyo cars, and many more.
View All R/C cars with the Mabuchi 260 motor
The Mabuchi 280 and variants were used by 60+ of the most popular Taiyo and Tyco RC cars such as:
Tyco Scorcher 6.0V Jet Turbo (Dual Motor)
Plus all equivalent Taiyo cars, and many more.
View all R/C cars with the Mabuchi 280
Large R/C Cars
This big boy Mabuchi RK-370 was used in most of the larger 9.6V Turbo models, such as:
Tyco Eliminator / Taiyo Super Bandit
Taiyo Porsche 962 Twin Turbo (Dual Motor)
Tyco Porsche 962 Twin Turbo (Dual Motor)
Taiyo / Tyco Lamborghini Countach Twin Turbo
Tyco Heads Up! Wild Thing Turbo Hopper
And many more.
View all R/C cars with the Mabuchi 370 Motor
The biggest motor that Taiyo or Tyco ever deployed that we're aware of. This is a true Hobby Grade motor, as used by many Tamiya 1/10 models.
To our knowledge, only used by Taiyo/Tyco in the following:
Taiyo Super Fast Traxx
View all R/C cars with the Mabuchi 380 Motor