2007 Ultra Hots News and Rumors

The 2006 Ultra Hots Series started with 16 castings and ended with 18 castings. In 2007 we should see as many as 24 different castings…. All castings have rubber tires and an opening feature… The 2007 Series has many changes so lets look at some…. Castings that are gone from last year are The Anglia Panel, The 65 Pontiac GTO, The 65 Mustang convertible, The 58 Corvette, The 56 Chevy Nomad, The 1937 Ford Woody and possibly the 1968 Mustang. The 65 GTO is being replaced with the 67 GTO…. The VW Karmann Ghia has been added to the line and a very interesting name appears on my rumor list……. The Custom Volkswagon Bug. Could this be the Bug with the opening sun roof? Is it possible that a VW Bug will appear with an opening trunk? Remember all cars in this line have an opening feature so the Mainline VW Bug can’t be an option. The 56 Flashsider will be new and improved and rumors persist that the 70 Chevy Chevelle and 68 Mercury Cougar are in the line too. Another rumor is that the 70 Dodge Challenger First Edition from 06 was created with an opening hood version for this line….. we’ll see.

The 2006 Line of Ultra Hots had the 1968 Mustang casting….. The 2007 lineup features a 1967 Mustang and a 1969 Mustang casting…… The 2007 mainline First Editions features a 1969 Mustang dub city style…… I can’t for a minute see this as the Ultra Hots car can you? One rumor that I know to be true …. that nobody knows about yet is that Larry Wood designed a 1957 Buick casting……. this casting has an opening feature … likely the hood…… It will debut as an ultra hots car.

One of the things Tyco R/C has done over the past year is move toward branding all of their cars and trucks as ?Hot Wheels R/C?. In case you are not familiar with the term R/C … In this case it stands for Radio Controled Vehicle. This is an effort by Mattel to bring all the speed, power, performance, and attitude of HW to older boys who want to play with R/C vehicles. On the bottom end we will see 6V cars like the Corvette, Mustang, Honda Civic, and soon the Challenger concept, as well as brand new truck designs coming out in January with models like the Ford F-150, Jeep Hurricane, Toyota FJ, and the Chevy Avalanche. The cars run on standard AA batteries (not included) and retail for around $14.99 and the trucks run on a rechargeable 4.8V battery (included) and retail for around $29.99

[via Airland’s Ironbox News Forum on HotWheelsCollectors.com ]