AUTOart has announced twenty new references in 1:18 — fifteen Lamborghinis and five versions of the 911 Carrera 2.7 RS. BBR has the Ferrari 288 GTO in ten colours, announced this morning, and a Maserati GT2 Stradale limited to twenty. Spark has opened the 2026 Formula One season with fifteen references, and Mini GT is doing Mario Andretti’s Lotus 78 in 1:64. Reference numbers, prices and dates are given where the manufacturers published them, and flagged where they did not.
AUTOart: twenty in 1:18
All composite diecast. The Lamborghinis first — fifteen of them, across four cars:
- 79190 — Aventador SVJ Roadster, Viola 30
- Sián FKP37: 79191 Verde Gea, 79192 Blu Uranus, 79193 Arancio Atlas, 79194 Grigio Nimbus, 79195 Bianco Fu
- Sián Roadster: 79235 Blu Uranus, 79236 Grigio Lynx, 79237 Verde Ermes, 79238 Verde Gea, 79239 Nero Aldebaran
- SC18 Alston: 79246 Viola Pasifae with gold accents, 79247 Rosso Bia with silver, 79248 Verde Selvans with red, 79249 Blu Uranus with gold
And the Porsche, in five:
- 78030 — 911 Carrera 2.7 RS, Grand Prix White with red
- 78031 — Grand Prix White with green
- 78032 — Gulf Blue with black
- 78033 — Light Yellow with black
- 78034 — Viper Green with black
The SC18 Alston is the strange one. Squadra Corse built exactly one, for one customer, in 2018 — a track car based on the Aventador with bodywork that looks like it was designed by someone who had been told the wing could be any size he liked. AUTOart is doing it in four colour and accent combinations, which is three more than the real world managed. Nobody will mind.
The 2.7 RS colours are the more considered set. Grand Prix White with red and with green are the two everybody pictures when the car is mentioned, and having both in the same announcement saves the usual argument. Gulf Blue and Viper Green are the ones that will by popular.
BBR: the 288 GTO, ten ways
Announced this morning, all 1:18 and all with a plexiglass case:
- P18288A — Rosso Corsa
- P18288B — Giallo Modena
- P18288C — Nero DS
- P18288C1 — Nero DS with stripes
- P18288E — Argento Nürburgring
- P18288F — Verde Medio
- P18288G — Bianco Avus
- P18288G1 — Bianco Avus with an Italian stripe
- P18288H — Azzurro Dino
- P18288H1 — Azzurro Dino with black
272 were built between 1984 and 1987, and the 288 GTO is the car that started the line that ends at the F40 — Ferrari’s first turbocharged V8 road car, 2.8 litres, 400 horsepower, built to homologate for Group B circuit racing and then stranded when the category was cancelled before it could enter. Fioravanti’s body put NACA ducts in the doors and three vents in the rear arches as a nod to the 250 GTO.
Ten colours of a car that was only ever really sold in red is the sort of thing BBR can do because the tooling is already paid for, and Verde Medio and Azzurro Dino are the two worth arguing about.
BBR: a Maserati GT2 Stradale at twenty pieces
P18255F — the Maserati GT2 Stradale in Rosso Potente, 1:18, limited to twenty pieces.
The GT2 Stradale is the road-legal version of Maserati’s GT2 racer, itself derived from the MC20 — lighter than the MC20, more downforce, and built in small numbers for people who wanted the race car’s aerodynamics with a number plate. Twenty models of it is the kind of edition size that decides itself: anybody who wants one already knows they want one.
Spark: the 2026 season, fifteen references
All quoted for the second quarter of 2027. In 1:18:
- 18S1277 — Kimi Antonelli, Mercedes W17 E Performance number 12, winner of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, with figure and pit board
- 18S1278 — Pierre Gasly, Alpine A526 number 10, pole position at Monza, with pit board
- 18S1279 — Lando Norris, McLaren MCL40 number 1, winner of the Dutch Grand Prix, with figure and pit board
And twelve in 1:43, covering three races. From Madrid: S9314 Antonelli’s winning Mercedes, S9315 Verstappen second in the Red Bull, S9316 Norris third, and S9317 and S9318 for Albon and Sainz at Williams. From Zandvoort: S9327 Norris’s winner with figure and pit board, S9325 Tsunoda’s Racing Bulls car, S9326 Lawson’s Red Bull and S9328 Alonso’s Aston Martin. From Monza: S9329 Antonelli’s winner, S9330 Gasly’s pole car and S9331 Piastri’s McLaren.
Gasly on pole at Monza in an Alpine is the one to look at. It is the first time this season that anything outside the top three teams has started from the front, and Spark is doing it in both scales with the pit board rather than burying it in the also-rans. Antonelli winning the same race, having already won in Madrid, is the other half of a season that has turned out very differently from how it started.
1:18
IXO: Porsche’s endurance year
- LEGT963-LM016 — Porsche 963 number 5, Porsche Penske Motorsport, Le Mans 2025, Andlauer / Christensen / Jaminet
- LEGT963-LM017 — Porsche 963 number 4, same team, Nasr / Tandy / Wehrlein
- LEGT18-33NUR25 — 911 (992) GT3 R, Falken Motorsports number 33, Nürburgring 24 Hours 2025
- LEGT18-96SP25 — 911 (992) GT3 R, Rutronik Racing number 96, second at the Spa 24 Hours 2025
- LEGTMUS-LM25088 — Ford Mustang GT3 number 88, Proton Competition, Le Mans 2025
The Falken car ran in 1:43 earlier this month; this is the same entry moving up a scale. The Rutronik 96 is the better model of the two — second overall at Spa in a customer 992 is a result that does not happen often.
IXO also has Bastian Buus’s Land Motorsport 992 GT3 R from the 2026 DTM in two scales, LEGT43-26DTM29 in 1:43 and LEGT64-26DTM29 in 1:64.
1:64
Mini GT: Andretti’s Lotus 78
Seven new subjects on pre-order, quoted for the first and second quarters of 2027, each in left- and right-hand-drive and blister variants:
- MGT01393 — Lotus 78 number 5, Mario Andretti, winner of the 1977 United States Grand Prix West
- MGT01395 — Bugatti EB110 GT, Azzurro Metallizzato, Mondial de l’Automobile 1992
- MGT01394 — Lamborghini Temerario, Viola Pasifae
- MGT01391 — Toyota Vellfire 40 KUHL, metallic pink
- MGT01392 — Scania 770S B8x4NA hooklift flatbed, orange
- MGT01396 and MGT01413 — Aston Martin AMR24, Alonso number 14 and Stroll number 18, Las Vegas Grand Prix 2024
The Lotus 78 is the surprise. Mini GT does modern road cars, JDM and current Formula One; a 1977 ground-effect car in black and gold, from the race at Long Beach where Andretti beat Lauda by less than a second, is a long way outside that. It is also the model people in the comments are already committing to before a price exists.
The EB110 in the Paris show colour is the other one worth noting, and the Scania hooklift is Mini GT quietly building out a working-truck range that nobody asked for and everybody buys.
Quick hits
- Sun Star has updated the packaging artwork on a forthcoming release and opened pre-orders; no reference number was given with the post.
- No consumer prices are published. Every figure in the sources was a trade or dealer price, so none is quoted.
- Nothing new this week yet from GLM, Stamp, KK-Scale, Kyosho, Tecnomodel, GT Spirit, ACME or GP Replicas.
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