Tamiya re released most of the cars,that was one of the reasons I stopped collecting.
I used to spend hours trying to find parts for a certain cars to make a complete car or even as in the case of the Hotshot 2 which I scratch built buying brand new bits of the net,only to find 6 months down the line Tamiya was going to re release it.
Hotshot , grasshopper, lunchbox, boomerang , avante ,sand rover , to name but a few that have been re released, I also found it a bit of a con at the priced they charged for them , after all all they needed to do was inject a bit of plastic in an existing