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Welly continues to impress with well-detailed 1:24 scale new castings for the low-end of the price range.  Even if one comes from Rire-Aid store as one of the cars that didn't pass quality control and lost both its exterior mirrors!  No problem, and after a new set of mirrors and a two-tone red interior, this BMW really earns "The Ultimate Driving Machine" standard. Click Here for Photo Gallery The 3-series line started with the racing heritage of the 2002 that made the BMW automaker the sportiest German of the bunch (not counting Porsche which was in a different category at the time).  In 1975 the 3-series line was introduced to replace the 2002 as the new compact car line for BMW.  Now in it's current sixth-generation the 3-series has grown and lost some of its sporting characteristics that car enthusiats love yet it still retains most of that sporty nature, and if that's not enough for you then take a look at the M3 and M4 models.  Speaking ...

The 1970 Ford Escort RS1600 is the newest entry in a group that contains quite a few sporty two-door sedans of the 1960's from Mattel over the past eight years.  The popularity of taking a standard two-door European sedan and turning it to a track-ready car was all the rage back then and it is today, not to mention giving the automaker its performance heritage.  The Escort joins the similarly popular Datsun 510 from Japan that was introduced in 2009, the German BMW 2002ti introduced in 2012, and the older, and quite limited, Matchbox Alfa Romeo Gulietta Sprint GTA introduced in 2007.  Now it's time to see which one of these fast sedans takes the win! Click Here for Photo Gallery Exterior The Escort looks sporty in Grabber Blue with white racing stripes that perfectly mirror the original RS stripes, FORD letters on the hood, front grille with integrated headlights, chrome bumpers, and driving lights that are part of the interior.  The rear has a...

With the new Hot Wheels 1970 Ford Escort RS1600 gaining wide appreciation mostly due to it's appearance in the Fast and Furious 6 movie, this is not the first time the Escort name has been done in diecast:  Over the decades the Escort, though in Euro-spec, has been replicated for almost each generation, including the predecessor the Ford Anglia that it replaced.  The Escort has even seen its share of the times by going to Front-wheel drive in the 1980's, then return to rear-wheel drive in the RS Cosworth in the 1990's.  While there's plenty to show (and one of them, the original Hot Wheels 1980 Ford Escort XR4i, is not shown here), here's a few of the models from different manufacturers over the course of several generations. Click Here for Photo Gallery First, the predecessor was the Anglia line that was a popular compact Ford vehicle for Europe and Austraila for two decades, and this fourth-generation version was the last introduced in 1959.  The...