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 learn the first one was made for a girl, not a boy.

It's never a boring day in the diecast collector world. If you are running out of ideas on what to buy, you must dig deeper and look farther back in time.

The latest Hot Wheels Car Culture set of six cars is coming to a toy store near you. But most people will only find five ...

You might not remember your first Hot Wheels car (or perhaps your first Matchbox car; the British brand was bought by Hot Wheels owner Mattel in 1997), but from the moment you were old enough to ...

Especially when you can capture them from the view of the vehicle. Growing up I had plenty of Hot Wheels cars, and some Matchbox ones, and have fond memories of them. Adding a POV camera for the ...

It has been a wild ride ever since. Right before Hot Wheels, he was on the Matchbox and Boys Vehicles team. Little did he know that working on full-size cars would lead to a career designing some ...

The answer is Mattel, makers of the legendary Hot Wheels model cars that many of us grew up ... and a 1931 Ford Model A coupe. ‘I had a Matchbox Ford Model A hot rod when I was a kid ...

It’s in the meticulous detail found on the millions of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars made every year. It’s in the ingenuity of the artists and technicians who collaborate on the properties that ...

Surrounded by million-dollar exotic cars at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto, Bryan Benedict reaches into his pocket and pulls out six of his favourites. Total value, about $10.