I like speed. I understand speed. I really do. But at some point, something gets to be so fast that everything about it, including life itself, becomes completely meaningless. It induces existential crisis. This is the Slot Car Racing European Championship, and it is not the slot cars you played with as a kid.
Much has been made about being able to purchase a special Maserati Ghibli through this year's Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog. It's got special trim bits and everything. That's great. Really wonderful. But the only thing I care about in the catalog is this $300,000 slot car track.
When I was slightly too old to still play with slot cars I just about demanded my parents buy me a slot car track that featured two Jeep-like vehicles racing through a scene that was a total Indiana Jones ripoff. I loved it. This is so many times faster my brain can barely comprehend it.
A slot enthusiast is shooting and editing a shot-by-shot remake of the famous Bullitt chase in 1/32nd scale. Here's the amazing trailer.
The White Lake Formula 1 Ring is a slot car track, in a basement, built by someone with a lot of spare time. But check your bias at pit row, because this scale track is better than most real ones.
Everyone says the Miata handles like a slot-car. Now the simile will become reality at the Goodwood Festival of Speed when Mazda brings a life-sized Scalextric set complete with Miata slot cars. How cool is that?! [WCF]
In the mood for some post-holiday shopping? These vintage Czech slot racers may come in handy to suck up your saved dollars.
Join us in a ride down memory lane in the historic 1960s 3.9-liter V12-equipped Ferrari 330 P4.
You know what was missing from most slot-car racing sets? Jumps! Now, based on personal experience with slot cars, we'd say that the chance of a car making a jump and then landing back on the slot approach zero... but so what? It's Boss Hogg versus the Duke Boys!
Because we share a small apartment in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, we've never quite had the space to install our own ultimate slot car track. In fact, we've yet to install any kind of slot car track in the apartment. We've got this guy to thank for providing a solution that meets our space requirements while also…
After seeing the '69 Torino ad the other day, we figured maybe all the ads of that era had music a thousand times lamer than the rock-und-roll those dope-addled freaks of the time were listening to. Oh, sure, we're not expecting the Mothers of Invention or the Stooges, but you'd think some buzz would maybe sneak in to…
Though it doesn't quite have the realism or history of Gran Turismo 4, we've been addicted to the Mario Kart series for as long as we could chuck a red homing shell. We've spent countless hours unlocking tracks and cars on the digital version, which often leads to sore eyes. But what to do when you're taking a break?…
Wherein Captain Slow assembles a scale measured-mile and attempts to have slot-car racers break the late, great Don Vesco's 2001 wheel-driven land speed record of 458 mph. Can they break it? Who knows? Can we get enough James May? Never.
Growing up, we loved electric toys, especially slot cars and model trains. With train sets, the action was always rather zen. You painted scenery, planted fake plastic trees, figured out how to make your rocks more convincing and arranged your engines and railcars for maximum visual effect. Then, sometimes, you got…
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Being men of a certain age who never quite got around to giving up being boys, Los Jalopniks are big fans of slot car racing. So excuse us for being a little geeked that we just found out that in July of this year, Tomy-owned AFX will launch a line of HO-scale slot cars resembling the current crop of Champ Cars. The…
No, not our commenter — the Autobot named Bumblebee. Our fave fan site all about the 'formers hipped us to new pictures of a transformed 70's Camaro version of the yellow-n-black bot. I'm not yet thrilled as it's not the new concept Camaro version from later in the movie and we're actually curious as to where the…
