The 2024 edition of the Polestar Design Contest has arrived, and this year, the Chinese-owned Swedish brand will work with Hot Wheels. Contestants are invited to submit designs that are “propelled by ...

I was one of the lucky dogs who got to tour Mattel’s Hot Wheels design center. Here’s how it went. Back in 1968, Mattel’s Elliot Handler started Hot Wheels to compete against Matchbox cars. Over the ...

Many of us have wanted to design Hot Wheels cars of our own when we were young, and some actually did so with the help of a Dremel, some paint, and glue that would later be found stuck to a dozen ...

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The winner of Polestar’s 2024 Design Contest in collaboration with Hot Wheels has been revealed, with the excellent ‘Polestar TRX’ you see above taking the top gong. Created by Shashank Shekhar – a ...

If you like cars, you've probably thought about becoming a car designer at least once in your life. Odds are you never went through with it, since it would require going back to college, pulling more ...

What’s the first thing a Hot Wheels collector does after placing a large order for tiny scale model cars? The answer is simple: he starts looking for the next items to buy. I told myself I’d go on a ...

After working together on various die-cast projects for nearly two decades, Aston Martin and Hot Wheels have collaborated to create a fantasy concept based on the Aston Martin DB4GT. The Aston Martin ...

Hot Wheels fanatics had a great year in 2025, with a plethora of amazing products to add to their collections. The company is building momentum, even nearly 60 years after its first tiny die-cast cars ...

Just as Mattel is one of the world's largest toy makers, Toyota is one of the biggest automotive manufacturers. The difference in number of units produced per year is significant at around 519 million ...