Dmitriy joined the Hot Wheels team in early 2015. He is a graduate of the Art Center College of Design and has been a freelance designer in Transportation, Entertainment and Industrial design fields. His work can be seen on TV, in the air and the sea, and in some mansions around LA. Before joining the Hot Wheels team, he was a co-founder in an electric car startup. Outside of work he juggles multiple roles: a husband, a father, a furniture designer and a mechanic for his vintage 911. He left Mattel in 2023.
Leave it to “Mad” Mike Whiddett to build another drift car. He has been doing that for years… This time, #Mad Mike sought out to complete his dream project of building the wildest drift car he could think of. In this build, he would also seek to build […]
Hey there, little green guy…. The Hot Wheels Elite 64 #Land Rover Defender 90 Pickup has arrived and I could not be more impressed. Despite still being in the Mattel Creations shop 2 weeks after it went on sale, this brand-new casting serves as a stark reminder that […]
I have a feeling. The feeling is such: the Hot Wheels #Porsche 911 Turbo (930) will rank among the top 10 Hot Wheels to collect over the next decade. As far as Hot Wheels Porsches go, the #Porsche 993 GT2 is the hottest Porsche — of the last […]
I love collecting Hot Wheels original designs like the #Mod Rod. No hype. No inflated prices. No collectors hoarding every single one off the pegs or raiding pallets. Besides the obvious, collecting #Unlicensed Hot Wheels has often exposed me to car genres I probably would have never dabbled […]
You can now ENTER TO WIN this super limited edition Hot Wheels #Porsche 914 Safari now! Limited to only 50 pieces, this will certainly be one of the rarest Hot Wheels to date. This edition follows up a similar release last year when Hot Wheels & Mobil 1 […]
THIS is why I love Hot Wheels: #Unlicensed Hot Wheels designs. I obviously love the licensed stuff too, but man, when you get a period mashup like the #Dimachinni Veloce, its hard not to be a fan of the designers the brand has. In my opinion, unlicensed Hot […]
It is hard to imagine any future releases of the brand-new #Toyota Land Cruiser 80 casting coming out much better than this! Debuting in mix N for 2021, this overlanding beast is easily one the best #2021 New Models. The casting is extremely-detailed and the feels like one […]
Back in the fall of 2019, Hot Wheels collectors were greeted by the #Mod Rod — a modern take on the hot rod, designed by Hot Wheels designer, Dmitriy Shakhmatov. That October at the convention in LA, designer Eric Han had his latest creation — the #Erikenstein Rod […]
The #2021 Hot Wheels “A” cases have officially landed at retail in the United States. Over the weekend, collectors started to ring in the “Hot Wheels New Year” as many posted their finds from Target and Walmart. I was among those collectors as I was shocked to find […]
In the last month or so my collection of the Hot Wheels #Mach Speeder doubled in size. The #Hot Wheels iD release — which was a holdover from 2019 –finally shipped from Amazon in early January. Also in early January, I found the 2020 #Mystery Models Series 1 […]
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