Hot Wheels
The best of the latest diecast news from the world of Hot Wheels
Stick’s Redline Garage: The Mod Quad
The Mod Quad has to be one of the most unusual designed concept cars of the Hot Wheels Redline era. The casting was designed by Howard Rees was issued in 1970 and 1971. At first glance one wonders what this casting resembles. It’s look certainly takes cues from the Rod & Custom dream car show [...]
Hot Wheels Kmart Days Video Tour
Special thanks to Mark Kasimoff (aka RaceGrooves) for shooting this great video highlighting the Hot Wheels/Kmart Collector Day experience and for taking viewers through a nice up-close look at the cars that he purchased. Collectors need to start making more videos like this!
Stick’s Redline Garage: Repco F1
One of the first castings to debut in the Grand Prix series of Redlines was the Brabham Repco F1. It was based on the 1966 World Championship winning racer designed by John Cooper, built by Geoff Brabham and driven by Jack Brabham. The original car used an all aluminum Oldsmobile V8 powerplant and was tuned [...]
In the Stores: Hot Wheels (Aug/Sept 2010)
Here’s a look at some of the latest Hot Wheels products that will be appearing in stores and online.* Found anything that isn’t on the list? Please submit it via the contact page and we’ll update the list to your credit! Basic releases: Here are the next case code cars you should be seeing in [...]
Full Size Hot Wheels Color Shifter to appear at First Ever Canadian Diecast Convention!
Attendees of the first-ever Canadian Diecast Convention will now have one more exciting event to attend as the 1:1 scale Hot Wheels Ford Mustang Color Shifter will be making at stop in Niagara Ontario on Saturday, September 11th. The Mustang is covered in the very same thermochromatic paint that is used on 1:64 scale Hot [...]
Danica Patrick and the Twin Mill featured in new Hot Wheels commercial
Fresh off the debut of Danica Patrick’s "Designed by Hot Wheels" #7 Chevrolet race car last week comes the release of this great Hot Wheels commercial created in support of the upcoming "Keys to Speed" national retail promotion. Hopefully this will be the first of several new commercials coming our way into the fall! Check [...]
Stick’s Redline Garage: The Tri Baby
In 2009, Larry Wood officially announced his retirement after 40 years with Mattel and what better way to pay tribute to a designer that has brought us so many cool casting then to feature the Tri Baby. The Tri Baby was the first “concept car” Larry produced for Mattel. This casting was released in 1970 [...]
