At long last, no thanks to the weird distribution issues Matchbox has been going through in this country in the last 6-8 months, the long-awaited Toyota 4Runner casting has ended up on shelves. On the plus side, the color and factory-style stripes look great, the wheels are proportional to the car (none of this monster-mudder […]
photo courtesy 1stopdiecast.com Hot Wheels’ Garage series, now in its third year, has finally figured out this whole premium-diecast thing: $3 price point, metal body and chassis, soft tires, and attractive cars done to a high level of detail. (In other words, they discovered Johnny Lightning’s old niche, a decade on.) Now that they’ve got […]
Funny how these things go. The first-generation Subaru Impreza WRX, the rally-homologation sensation that we suspect will be a shoo-in collector favorite in a couple of decades’ time, was barely modeled in small-scale in its own lifetime; only an obscure Hungarian outfit, Metchy, deigned to commit it to tooling. (All of the CM’s rally variants […]