Now You Can Build (And Destroy) Your Favorite Hot Wheels Cars

From the company that brought you the Porsche 911 GT3 RS that kept me sane during a snow storm comes a new line of Team Hot Wheels vehicles, mini-figs and play sets created in partnership with Mattel.

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Here's What Happens Behind the Scenes At An Awesome Hot Wheels Stunt…

James Bond did it in an AMC Matador. Rob Dyrdek did it in a Chevy Sonic. Now it's Hot Wheels's turn. Make that Brent Fletcher's. He jumped a sand-rail buggy 92 feet, nautilus style, at the behest of the recently stunt-happy toy-car maker.

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Watch The World Record Hot Wheels Double Loop Stunt

Mustachioed stunt driver Greg Tracy and former One Direction tenor Tanner Foust set a completely made up world record earlier today when they drove their cars through a double loop simultaneously at the X Games in Los Angeles. Tracy won, mostly because he did a Q&A with our readers on Friday. When will you learn, Foust? …

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Ask Stuntman Greg Tracy Anything You Want Before His Double Loop Dare…

You've seen Greg Tracy drive, you just didn't know it. The six-time Pikes Peak champ has been the wheelman in movies like The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Bourne Ultimatum, and The Italian Job just to name a few. He's also going to attempt a world record double loop stunt for Hot Wheels Saturday with Tanner…

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Drunken Grandparents Towed Their Grandkid In This Power Wheels Car

Do grandparents let their grandkids get away with stuff their parents won't let them do? Sure. But most grandparents are still pretty good baby sitters, from a safety standpoint (mine were anyway).

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2013 SRT Viper: Here It Is (In Toy Car Form)

So far the closest we've gotten to the 2013 SRT Viper ahead of its New York Auto Show debut next month is teaser pictures and renderings based on the image leaked by Hot Wheels. Although we still don't have pictures of the actual car, we now know what it looks like 1/64th scale diecast.

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The Hidden Beauty Of The Bottom Of Toy Cars

Like most car-obsessed folks, I have many more toy cars around than a reasonable person with a mortgage should. It's a limited way of satisfying car-ownership urges without turning your yard into an oil-soaked scrapyard. Well, turning it into more of one, I mean.

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Chris Burden’s Metropolis II is Hot Wheels heaven (and hell)

California artist Chris Burden’s city of 1,200 Hot Wheels cars is close to completion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It’s a giant, noisy, throbbing city of custom-built toy cars, and it’s also a sad farewell to the first century of the automobile. In Burden’s city, you see, the cars move on tracks. (via

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