Hot Wheels cars have been around since 1968 and feature a wide-array of licensed and unlicensed vehicles.
The Confederate/Rebel Flag was the center of a controversy in the United States last week. At Diecast Motorsports, the only interest we have in this controversy is its impact on the diecast world. We have seen cars that have not sold in years, pick up and start selling like hot […]
Hot Wheels has been keeping up with car culture since 1968. Car culture in the automotive world has its trends and its niches but it is not nearly as trendy as the focus of today’s youth–whom these cars are, and should be, designed for. So what happens when […]
One of the most iconic movie cars ever is the Ecto-1 from the 1984 movie, Ghostbusters. Millions of Ecto-1 toy vehicles were produced over the years, but none of them were made by the iconic brand in itself, Hot Wheels. In 2010, that changed as Mattel was granted the […]
This release of the Hot Wheels ’12 Ford Fiesta was in the 2011 New Models Series and is based off of the Ford Fiesta featured in the Gymkhana 3 video found HERE on YouTube. As you can see in the video, Ken Block, professional rally driver and co-founder of DC […]
While shooting the Gulf Racing ’09 Corvette ZR1 from yesterday’s article, I remembered this version of the Corvette I had stashed away in one of my many “Jammers” cases. Its satin paint and detailed motor gave it a nice clean, sophisticated, high-end look. That coupled with the fact […]
Gulf Racing is represented once again in the Hot Wheels line as this ’09 Corvette ZR1 from the HW Performance Series wears the color scheme perfectly. This version of the ’09 Corvette ZR1 has just hit stores and collectors have already begun snatching these up. Can we blame […]
Hot Wheels designer, Jun Imai is extremely talented and his love for Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) cars is no secret. His own ’71 Datsun Bluebird 510 Wagon was made into a Hot Wheels vehicle in 2013. So it may come as a little bit of a surprise that his […]
The year was 1998. I was a teenager that was fully immersed in all things Hot Wheels. My local Hot Wheels club in Milwaukee had downhill racing so my cousin and I rounded up our best cars and competed at every show. There was one problem. Someone brought this […]
The “Nationals Convention” is typically in the spring and is in the eastern United States, while the “Collectors Convention” is in the fall in Southern California. Both conventions have been put on by the Hot Wheels Newsletter–15 years for the Nationals & 29 years for the Collectors. The 15th […]
Hot Wheels Pro Racing is a now defunct Hot Wheels line. Primarily an avenue for NASCAR, the Pro Racing line featured stock cars with authentic NASCAR paint schemes. In 2001, the authentic NASCAR paint schemes were applied to existing Hot Wheels castings such as The Demon (shown below), […]
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