Autoart creates a stellar 1:18 scale "practical" supercar ... Hard as it is to imagine, the 1500-horsepower Koenigsegg Regera is not meant for the racetrack. No, Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg (bless you!) intends the Regera as a grand touring luxury sports car. PR from Christian von Koenigsegg, the car maker’s founder, says Regera is a... Continue Reading →
1959 Cadillac Rat Fink hearse
Auto World Eldorado goes wild with Kustom Kartoon Kreation ... OK, I get it, Rat Fink is a cultural icon. For some reason folks were drawn to the grotesque caricature of a rat with bulging bloodshot eyes ogling a 1950s hot rod or fondling a gear shift knob as he drooled in the bucket seat... Continue Reading →
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Convertible
Auto World launches its first Barbie Bel Air in 1:18 scale ... Turquoise and pink certainly team up to shout 1950s car fashion, but in this case they also scream Barbie dream car. I’m no Barbie expert (no sisters), but I do know that the bosomy blonde doll has been partial to brightly colored cars... Continue Reading →
1981 Mazda RX-7
Johnny Lightning creates a racy tribute with new Mazda RX-7 ... Mazda has been a favorite car maker of mine since I was fresh out of college and bought a GLC hatchback. Remember the Great Little Car? Well, it wasn’t great, but it was good and low-priced, which fit a newly minted college graduate’s budget.... Continue Reading →
Diecast: 1956 Ford F-100 pickup
Auto World creates a simple, iconinc Ford pickup ... Ford’s pickup hasn’t always been the best-selling vehicle in North America, it just seems that way. But in the 1950s Ford redesigned its F-1 pickup and renamed it the F-100 (now the F-150), all in an effort to overtake Chevrolet. By 1956 the second generation Ford... Continue Reading →
Diecast: Autoart Suzuki Jimny
Jimny (JB64) is a cute, well-detailed Jeep wanna-be ... Suzuki’s Jimny is a fun little runabout, and even cuter as a 1/18 scale diecast model from the hot shot designers at Autoart. There’s no doubt this Jeep-like two-door sport-utility is useful and nimble. It has sold like Pocky sticks in its home market, Japan and... Continue Reading →
Diecast: 1969 Baldwin Motion Chevy Chevelle Phase III
Auto World’s Chevelle a 1/18 scale supercar of the 1960s ... Chevrolet’s 1969 Chevelle may have been the epitome of styling from GM’s lead division, and an icon of the muscle car parade that wound its way through U.S. streets into the early 1970s. But as muscular as Chevelle was, there were a lot of... Continue Reading →
Diecast: Bugatti Chiron Sport
Autoart's 1:18 hypercar looks crazy fast even at rest ... What happens in the auto world when the term “supercar” isn’t descriptive enough? Naturally we seek a new term, and for now that has become hypercar. But is that enough to describe a car with 1,479 horsepower and a 0 to 60 mph time of... Continue Reading →
Diecast: Autoart 1973 Nissan Skyline GT-R
Skyline 2000 GT-R (KPGC110) a rare, racy hatchback ... Just as the oil crisis was putting the kibosh on performance cars in the U.S. in 1973 it also was squishing a newly revised Nissan offering in Japan. The cool Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R, the second generation GT-R, was a performance oriented fastback that for all... Continue Reading →
Diecast: Autoart’s McLaren Senna
Beautiful Senna model designed for speed, car lust ... If beauty be only skin deep, so be it, especially if that object of visual lust is a mid-engine McLaren Senna, be it a throbbing full-size version or a silent 1:18 diecast scale model snug in a showcase. Autoart has an encyclopedic knowledge of beauty and... Continue Reading →