Four 1960 Cadillacs from KK Scale, six new Spark models in 1:12, and a James Bond tuk-tuk from Mini GT lead this week’s news.
Four new 1960 Cadillac Series 62s in 1:18
KK Scale has the 1960 Cadillac Series 62 four-window hardtop sedan in 1:18, in four colours. It is the flat-roof body with the wraparound rear window and the tailfins already on their way down from the 1959 extreme — 225 inches of car, with the 390 cubic inch V8 and Hydra-Matic transmission. The references are KKDC181641 in white, KKDC181642 in black, KKDC181643 in pink over white, and KKDC181644 in red.
Recently sold in Zone Auctions
Our members have been finding some remarkable bargains in the Zone Auctions! Don’t Miss Out! Many of our auctions start at $1 with no reserve, and a new one ends every day at 8 pm Eastern. Here is a sample of what sold recently:
- 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Hard Top, 1:64, Item # 28190-E — sold for $4.00
- 1987 Freightliner FLA Tow Truck in red and white, 1:43 by IXO, Item # U43TTR002 — sold for $1.00
- Ferrari 499P, Team Ferrari #83, winner of the 2025 Le Mans, 1:18 — sold for $50.00
- 1976 Ford CL 9000 in red and black, 1:43 by IXO, Item # U43TR003 — sold for $1.00
- 1987 Buick Grand National in black, 1:43 by IXO, Item # U43RDC009 — sold for $5.00
- BMW M4 GT3 EVO #31, The Bend Team WRT, 2025 Le Mans, 1:43 by TSM, Item # TSM430942 — sold for $36.00
- Lamborghini SC63 #63, 2025 IMSA Daytona 24 Hours, 1:43 by TSM, Item # TSM430912 — sold for $5.00
- Ford Mustang GTD in Race Red, 1:43 by TSM, Item # TSM430900 — sold for $11.00
- BMW M4 GT3 EVO #11, Schubert Motorsport, Marco Wittmann, 1:43 by TSM, Item # TSM430889 — sold for $1.00
- 1958 Chevrolet Impala street machine with flames — sold for $25.00
- 1932 Ford Deuce Highboy, 1:24 by Danbury Mint — sold for $25.00
- 1963 Chevrolet Corvette in black, 1:24 by Danbury Mint — sold for $65.00
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Spark: six new models in 1:12, and a long list in 1:18
The headline from Spark this week is the 1:12 line, which gains six models at once. The racing car is the Aston Martin Valkyrie 6.5L V12 of Aston Martin THOR, #009 at the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours, driven by Roman De Angelis, Alex Riberas and Marco Sørensen, as 12S058. The other five are Porsche road cars: the 911 (992) GT3 RS with the Weissach package, 2023, as 12S060; the 911 (992) Sport Classic coupé of 2022 as 12S061; the 911 (992) Dakar coupé of 2023 as 12S062; the 718 Cayman GT4 RS with the Weissach package, 2024, as 12S063; and the 718 Spyder RS with the Weissach package, 2023, as 12S065.
Three of those Porsches arrive in 1:18 as well — the Sport Classic as 18S1087, the Dakar as 18S1088 and the 718 Cayman GT4 RS Weissach as 18S1089. Also new in 1:18: Max Verstappen’s Red Bull RB21, winner of the 2025 Las Vegas Grand Prix, supplied with a pit board, as 18S1116; Yuki Tsunoda’s RB21 from the 2025 Australian Grand Prix as 18S1251; the MG Metro 6R4 of Didier Auriol and Bernard Occelli, #12 on the 1986 Tour de Corse, as 18S797; the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO #32 that won the 2025 Suzuka 1000km with Kelvin van der Linde, Raffaele Marciello and Charles Weerts, as 18SJ002; the Origine Motorsport Porsche 911 (992) GT3 R #6 that finished fifth in the same race, as 18SJ003; and the Genesis ORECA GMR-001 press car, #10, as 18SP361.
Two Mercedes-Benz Actros MP4 1851 car transporters round out the batch in 1:43 — a Goodyear Tires truck of 2023 as S8514, and the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One transporter in 2024 season livery as S9512.
Mini GT: the Octopussy tuk-tuk
Mini GT has opened pre-orders on one of the odder vehicles in the James Bond canon: the three-wheeled tuk-tuk from Octopussy, the “company car” Bond’s MI6 contact Vijay drives through the streets of Udaipur during the film’s chase sequence. The 1:64 model is MGT00929, due in the second quarter of 2027, and the packaging carries movie-poster artwork in four versions — English blister as MGT00929-007E, German as MGT00929-007G, Japanese as MGT00929-007J, and the English China edition as MGT00929-007ECH.
Pantheon: three Matra MS620s from the 1966 Le Mans
Pantheon has announced the full Matra Sports entry from the 1966 Le Mans 24 Hours in 1:18 — the MS620 with the 1,915cc BRM V8, in all three team liveries. PANTHEON029 is #41, Johnny Servoz-Gavin and Jean-Pierre Beltoise; PANTHEON030 is #42, Jo Schlesser and Alan Rees; and PANTHEON031 is #43, Jean-Pierre Jaussaud and Henri Pescarolo. It is an unusual subject to get a full three-car treatment in a large scale.
Minichamps: Russell’s Melbourne win in 1:18, and the 2001 McLarens
George Russell’s Mercedes-AMG Petronas W17 from his win at the 2026 Australian Grand Prix is now listed in 1:18 as 117260163. Kimi Antonelli’s W17 from his first pole position, at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix and supplied with the pole position tyre, appears in both 1:18 (117260222) and 1:43 (417260222).
The more interesting entry for historic collectors is a trio of 2001 McLaren Mercedes MP4/16s in 1:18: Mika Häkkinen’s car as 530011803, David Coulthard’s as 530011804, and — the one people will chase — Coulthard’s car with Häkkinen riding on the sidepod after the Spanish Grand Prix, as 530011814.
Elsewhere in the same announcement: the Porsche 911 RS (993) of 1994 in green, 1:18, as 155061124; the Porsche 911 (992.2) GT3 of 2025 in blue, 1:43, as 410064221; and the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 of Valentino Rossi and Maxime Martin from Brands Hatch 2023, 1:43, as 410232446.
IXO: the Donington Rovers
IXO is doing the full Bastos Texaco Racing podium from the 1985 Donington 500km in 1:18 — three Rover Vitesses. 18RMC257A.22 is the winning #1 of Tom Walkinshaw and Win Percy; 18RMC257B.22 is the second-place #6 of Jean-Louis Schlesser and Armin Hahne; and 18RMC257C.22 is the third-place #7 of Jeff Allam and Pierre Dieudonné. All three are listed for the first quarter of 2027. In 1:64, IXO adds a 1963 Peterbilt 281 two-axle tractor unit as U64TR012, available from 16 November.
Pop Race: seven in 1:64
Pop Race has seven new 1:64 models coming in the first quarter of 2027. The Porsche 911 (930) RWB in Martini Racing colours, #8, is PR640530. Two Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVOs from the 2026 China GT season at MuMu, both run by Uno Racing, are PR640562 (#71, Bian Fengjun and Chen Yechong) and PR640563 (#98, Adderly Fong and Song Yiran). The rest are Pandem and Rocket Bunny widebody builds: two Nissan Skyline GT-R R34s wearing LBWK Pandem kits, PR640583 and PR640618; a 1991 Honda Civic EG6 Pandem as PR640633; and a 1975 Datsun 620 pick-up in Pandem Rocket Bunny form as PR640635.
Autocult: a police Mercedes with no roof
Autocult has two versions of the Mercedes-Benz 170D OTP of 1951 coming in 1:43 at the beginning of December. OTP stands for Offener Tourenwagen Polizei — open touring car for the police — and it was exactly that: a convertible 170D, series 136, built for police forces in the late 1940s and early 1950s with a hypoid rear axle, a fixed bench front seat in place of individual seats, and wider rims than the civilian car. Most were painted fir green, the colour then favoured by the police and the newly formed federal border guard, but the cars delivered to Berlin were grey-blue. Autocult is doing both: 12023-1 is the standard “Polizei” car and 12023-2 the “Polizei-Berlin”. Around 530 were built between 1951 and 1953.
KK-Scale: four Oldsmobile Super 88s
KK-Scale is adding the 1956 Oldsmobile Super 88 sedan to its 1:18 range in four variants, listed as KKDC181571, KKDC181572, KKDC181573 and KKDC181574, all for the fourth quarter of this year. Colours have not yet been attached to the individual references.
Solido: an Essen-only M3
Solido will have a show exclusive at the Essen Motor Show, which runs from 27 November to 6 December at Messe Essen: a 1:18 BMW M3 Coupé in Pandem widebody form, sold only at the stand in Hall 3, A31. The brand has not said how many will be made.
Minichamps: the 2026 McLarens, and Cadillac’s first Formula One car
Minichamps has five more 2026-season Formula One cars in 1:18. Lando Norris’s McLaren MCL39 shakedown cars are listed twice, once for the 2026 shakedown as 537264204 and once for 2025 as 537254204. The race cars are the MCL40s from the 2026 Japanese Grand Prix — Lando Norris as 537262004 and Oscar Piastri as 537262081. The one that will get the most attention is 117269911: Sergio Pérez’s Cadillac from the pre-season test at Bahrain, the marque’s first season in Formula One.
IXO: the 2027 IndyCar season in 1:18
IXO has opened the 2027 NTT IndyCar Series in 1:18 with six cars. Team Penske supplies three — Josef Newgarden’s #2 as IND18067, Scott McLaughlin’s #3 as IND18068 and David Malukas’s #12 as IND18070. AJ Foyt Racing has two, Josh Pierson’s #4 as IND18079 and Dennis Hauger’s #14 as IND18078, and Alexander Rossi’s #20 Ed Carpenter Racing car is IND18071. IndyCar in 1:18 is thin on the ground, so a six-car opening salvo is worth noting.
BBR: four Ferrari F12 TDFs
BBR is doing the Ferrari F12 TDF in four finishes in 1:18: ruby red with white and gold stripes as P18121HP, sky blue with white as P18121U, Chamaeleon green as P18121V, and red with a beige interior as P18121X.
GT Spirit: an E-Type in 1:12
GT Spirit is taking the 1961 Jaguar E-Type coupé to 1:12, in blue-grey metallic, as GT978. The brand’s 1:12 line is small and this is the first E-Type in it.
Quick hits
Almost Real has opened pre-orders on a 1:64 model in the Evangelion Unit-01 livery as run at Fuji Speedway in the 2026 GT World Challenge Asia, an Almost Real exclusive. The same brand has revealed the third of its Macau Grand Prix ARbox liveries, a Tempo-blue Porsche 911 GT3 R run with Absolute Racing, which will be on the grid in Macau from 19 to 22 November. Norev has shown a pink Citroën 2CV of 1986 in “Paris mon amour” trim in 1:18, though no reference number has been published for it yet.
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