Here’s an Italian lesson for you: Bring your jaw forward a bit, and say “cheen-quay-CHEN-toh”. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Add in a little hand language – a slow, loose-fingered rolling of the right hand in a circular motion, at around shoulder height, should do – and you might pass for a native. Show up to [...]
Humble origins can make for noble ends, and few cars have ever enjoyed the loyalty and fervor bestowed on the Volkswagen Beetle. In return, it provided solid, thrifty transportation for millions of Volks folks worldwide for the better part of a sixty-five year production run. I really like this model of the VW, as done [...]
GreenLight Collectibles will soon add two new 118 to their lineup . Both will be 1988 Pontiac Trans Am GTA Editions; one black and one sterling grey. Both replicas are detailed well with factory paint schemes and correct BBS wheels; opening hoods, doors and trucks and have have serial numbered chassis too.
Auto World is bringing the silver screen to life in 1:18 scale by replicating these iconic Hollywood superstars with incredible authenticity. The Dukes of Hazzard’s General Lee is composed of well over 100 pieces with rotating driveshaft, steerable front wheels, and folding seat backs, but don’t even try to open the doors! Speed Racer’s Mach 5 [...]
American Muscle is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet with these special chrome edition die-cast muscle cars. These classic cruisers are impeccably recreated with serialized chassis and painstaking attention to detail. The Chevy Centennial series includes the following cars: 1966 Chevy Chevelle SS 396, 1967 Chevy Corvette Convertible, 1970 Chevy Chevelle SS 396, 1969 Chevy [...]
Given its rarity, the thought of taking a Ferrari Enzo and morphing it into a track-only machine (especially one that you can’t drive unless Ferrari says you can, despite a two-mil plus tip-in) almost seems criminal… until you actually see one of the 30 hyper-exclusive, close-to-800 horsepower FXX Evoluziones built in addition to the already [...]
Cadillac’s CTS is a solid performer in base, V6 trim; add in the V series’ supercharged 556-horsepower 6.2 liter V8 and hyper-performance bells and whistles, and you have a world-class sedan with “fastest production V8 sedan in the world” cred. This model of the vaunted V comes via Kyosho, and it follows up the sweet [...]
The fortitude of the human spirit is an amazing thing. One of history’s greatest examples of this is the Porsche 356. The two-seat sports car was introduced in 1948. Consider the fact that nearly all of Germany’s industry was completely destroyed by World War II. This meant that Porsche created an amazing little road car from the rubble and ashes [...]
HOT RODDING, BY ITS VERY NATURE, was intended to be a raw form of unbridled performance. It was a no-frills, gut-wrenching affair with speed. As the genre grew from the ’50s to the ’70s, rods got more accommodating to everyday driving. In the ’90s and beyond, these machines were transformed into gadget-laden money pits that offered more comfort than [...]
In 1971, at the peak of the American Muscle Car era, European performance enthusiasts were very much into the science of small-engine technology. European racing was vastly different from the New World order of drag and stock car racing. Formula 1 Rally and road racing were the big interests. In the wild world of road racing, Alfa Romeo was [...]
Like a light in the darkness, Porsche offered a pure-breed line of obtainable sports cars in an otherwise low-performance era. The flagship of the brand was the 911 Carrera. Engineered with a precise suspension that evolved over years of development, handling was as good as a late 1980s street car could offer. The 214hp, fuel-injected flatsix delivered predictable power. [...]
Imagine being able to stroll into the Ferrari headquarters and ask for a customized version of the famous 330 P3. That’s just what the 412P was, a “customer ordered” version of the prototype racing machine. These cars, with Weber carburetion in place of the Lucas fuel-injection system, were pure raging race cars that helped bring the Ferrari name [...]
I have just added the most amazing 1:18 model to my collection: The Pagani Zonda R by AUTOart ! This is a car that in 1:1 surely establishes a high water mark for visual impact, performance, expense and sheer impracticality ! In 1:18 scale it is nothing but a stunning testimony of how really great AUTOart can [...]
The list of sports car Holy Grail includes the Mercedes- Benz 300 SL Gullwing coupe. It may even be at the top of the list. At the top of any megacollector’s list of must-haves should be this all-new CMC 1:18-scale beauty. Hand-constructed of 1,817 separate components, this is truly one of the best diecast cars to be released in the past year. [...]
