I went on my weekly grocery shopping "adventure" and discovered something more interesting than milk and cookies: a hot ...

"By 1969, Lesney was building a thousand toy cars per minute," the article says. However, Matchbox was stuck in idle gear with the arrival of Hot Wheels in 1968. While Matchbox focused on ...

"I like to joke and say I'm a used car salesman, but I sell Hot Wheels for a living," said Dalton Cox, who opened the shop just over a year ago after stints working as a firefighter and for NASCAR.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Matchbox was making tiny die-cast cars more than a decade before Hot Wheels rolled onto the scene. It might be even more surprising to ...

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 ...

The Hot Wheels Legend Tour, which cruised into Houston in September, is finishing its 2024 competition Saturday at its Global Grand Finale. Ten custom-made cars remain in the competition, including ...

“The axles on Hot Wheels cars are a lot thinner than on a Matchbox car because that makes them spin quicker, which makes them go faster on the track. “If the wheels still go round nicely then ...

I have become a collector, and what I collect are diecast cars. ALSO SEE ... after having left Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Corgi, et al out of my life since my teenage years, the fierce need to acquire ...

so if you have a Matchbox car instead of a Hot Wheels car you should be fine. The catch is there is currently a 2- to 4-week lead time for ordering, so if you want to get it in time for the ...