Yokomo lists a Drift Package 2WD kit with the BN Sports FC RX-7 body in the box

Yokomo has been building RC cars since 1973, and its 2003–2004 Drift Package is widely credited with starting RC drift as a hobby. The company's RWD line later ran through the YD-2 family and is now sold in the Rookie Drift, Super Drift and Master Drift tiers.

The detail worth holding onto is drivetrain. The original Drift Package, released in 2004 as kit DP-180SX, was an AWD car. A Drift Package carrying a 2WD label is therefore not a reissue of that chassis in any mechanical sense — it is a familiar name over a different drivetrain, and the scene's whole setup vocabulary changes with it. Counter-steer ratios, front drive and the gearing arguments that went with them belong to the AWD car; a rear-wheel-drive chassis has none of that to tune.

There is a precedent for the body-in-the-box format, too. Our manuals library holds a June 2004 instruction manual for a DP-FC3S body-kit version of the Drift Package — the same FC generation of RX-7, bundled the same way, more than twenty years ago.

If you want to see how Yokomo documented the Drift Package, the Drift Package manuals page collects what the maker published: the Type-B instruction manual in Japanese and English, that DP-FC3S body-kit manual, two gear ratio charts labeled FCD ×1.3–1.5 and FCD ×1.8–2.0, and two single-page setup sheets — Yatabe Arena on asphalt by Hiroshi Suzuki, and Yatabe Arena on carpet by Yujiro Mishima.

The caveat is the whole point of listing them. Those documents are filed against the 2004 AWD Drift Package. Nothing in the new listing says the 2WD kit shares parts, geometry or gearing with that car, and the gear ratio charts in particular are written around a drivetrain a rear-wheel-drive chassis does not have. Read them as history and as an example of how surface-specific Yokomo's own setup sheets were — one sheet for asphalt, a separate one for carpet, because those are whole configurations and not a single adjustment — rather than as a setup you can port across.

When the 2WD kit's own manual appears, that is the document that governs build steps, spacers and recommended settings. We have not read it.

A body-included kit removes one choice and quietly makes several others. A polycarbonate shell is painted from the inside, trimmed at the arches and mounted on body posts, and the arch line it comes with sets the window you have for ride height and wheel offset. Offset here is the wheel's mounting-face position in millimeters — the +3, +6, +9 range the scene buys in — and it is how you move the tire out to sit correctly under a wider arch, or pull it in so the body does not rub.

The listing does not state the body's width, its arch treatment, or what offset Yokomo expects you to run under it. For a buyer choosing a first RWD kit, that is the single most useful thing to confirm before ordering wheels, because the shell you were given is the constraint everything else is fitted around.

The other unconfirmed items are the usual kit ones: motor, ESC, servo, gyro, receiver, transmitter and a 2S LiPo are not implied by the word kit, and the page as supplied does not list a required set.

On the facts available, this is a kit for a builder who wants a known shell decided for them and is content to add their own electronics — not a ready-to-run, and not a drop-in replacement for anyone already set up on a YD-2 era car or one of the current RD, SD and MD tiers. Whether it is worth buying over a chassis-only kit plus a shell of your choosing is a price question, and the material in front of us does not carry a price.