The world’s favorite toy cars, Hot Wheels and Matchbox, are celebrating anniversaries this year: Hot Wheels just turned 50 years old, while Matchbox cars are 65. It turns out some of them would ...

One thing my parents did right was to save my collection of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars from when I was a kid. Thanks to them I have about 100 cars from the 1970s and ’80s. I gave them to my ...

But today, I am here to talk to you about 10 Hot Wheels police cars ready to bring the heat. If you were a street racer on a 1/64th scale, some of these might be your worst nightmare. That could ...

Or you can fake-pretend to play with Hot Wheels Police cars if you want the easy way out. I showed you ten such castings last year, but I have five more interesting ones today. These five vehicles ...

I decided to get back into little cars," he told LEX 18. "I started off playing with monster trucks as a kid, and beating other Hot Wheels cars with a hammer to look like I crushed them with my ...

While Matchbox leans toward realism, focusing on everyday vehicles like cement trucks, police cars, and those adorable little Sky Busters (helicopters, if you’re fancy), Hot Wheels is the ...

and plastic or rubber tires that would let Hot Wheels cars glide significantly farther and much, much faster than their Matchbox rivals (which used a nail axle that was too thick to spin quickly ...

Others, like the Silhouette or Beatnik Bandit, were from custom-built cars. Many had a California-customized hot rod look. "Matchbox tended to be pretty authentic-looking," Zahn says. "Hot Wheels ...

Matchbox was bought by Mattel, maker of the rival Hot Wheels line of toy cars, in 1997. Matchbox plans to release seven assortments of 70th anniversary cars throughout 2023, at the same major ...