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Sleepers! Stealthy Speed is always a Collector Favorite [VIDEO]

Is there anything cooler than an automotive sleeper? A car that looks like a mild-mannered family car but rips like a race-bred rocket! Sleepers make some of the best collectible cars, because packing secret performance potential makes for a certain mystique which fuels nostalgia as the years pass. We tend to think of sleepers in […]

Introducing the DCX Car Movie Club!

What’s this, you say? Diecast collectors are car guys — and gals! — at heart, and car guys love car movies. And there are a lot of great ones out there, so we are going to start a regular feature where we toss one out there for you guys to watch — or RE-watch — […]

Diecast F1 Car Collection

As you read this, the 68th Formula 1 Championship Season has just come to a close. Mercedes has secured its fourth consecutive Constructors’ Championship with the help of Lewis Hamilton, who also won his fourth Drivers’ title, tying him for third place all-time. The 32-year-old Hamilton is at the top of his game, so only […]

Auto World 1970 Buick GS 455 Stage 1 [ONLINE EXCLUSIVE]

The Executive Muscle Car Gran Sport Buicks always had something of a dual personality, but with the introduction of the 1970 model that took on a Clark Kent/Superman aspect. It was in that year that GM brass—tired of seeing its sportiest models outgunned by Ford and Chrysler products—finally lifted its corporate ban on engines larger […]

Anson Saab 900 Turbo Cabriolet

Diecast Saab Story by Ron Ruelle Prior to its demise as a car company a few years ago, Saab filled a strange position in the U.S. car market. The Swedish company’s styling and engineering were quirky and heavily influenced by the parent company Saab-Scania’s aerospace roots, but it was not so strange as to scare […]

Five New Cars that Need to Be Diecast — NOW!

In case you hadn’t noticed, we are in the heart of car show season, and while much of the country is mired in frosty winter temperatures, the vehicles premiering at the big shows are red hot! The North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January brought us the explosive return of the Bullitt Mustang, […]

VIDEO: Watch a Tesla Roadster go 16,500mph and Launch into Space with Hot Wheels Hitching a Ride!

Space X, the intergalactic sister company to Tesla Motors, just successfully tested “Falcon Heavy” — the largest rocket since the Saturn V took NASA astronauts to the moon 45 years ago. And because CEO Elon Musk has a sense of humor as well as a sense of style, he loaded one of his ground-based rocketship […]

Diecast Beauty: What Makes a Car Beautiful in Any Scale?

The folks over at Jalopnik just posed this question as pertains to full-size cars, but we think the principle holds true in scale as well. So we echo the question: What makes a car beautiful? As the saying goes, its is in the eye of the beholder to a large degree, so of course it […]

Diecast Head to Head: Kyosho Shelby Cobra 427 S/C vs Auto World 1967 Chevy Corvette L88

We’ve been playing a little game around the DCX office we’re calling ‘Head-to-Head” featuring pairs of thematically linked diecast models.This installment features a pair of little sports cars with big thumpin’ big-block V8s: the Kyosho Shelby Cobra 427 S/C vs the Auto World ’67 Corvette L88. The rules are simple: There AREN’T any rules! We […]

Breaking News: F1 Fan-Favorite Fernando Alonso to Race Le Mans with Toyota Team

Fresh off his endurance prototype sports car drive with Toyota and United Autosport, 2-time F1 Champ and perennial fan-favorite Fernando Alonso announced that he will again join the Toyota team at Le Mans this year, as well as the majority of the World Endurance Championship. This is great news for Alonso fans, and for fans […]