The first two Diecast Zone auctions have closed, and whoever was watching did well — a mint Danbury Mint split-window Corvette at $65 and a Danbury Mint Deuce highboy at $25, with three of the opening five still running and a good deal more now on the board. Also: Top Marques takes the Ferrari 330 P3 into 1:12, BBR puts three Antonelli wins into limited luxury packs, Schuco opens thirty-six in 1:64 and 1:87, and IXO has the new Lancia Gamma.
BBR has opened the Pagani Utopia in 1:18 — seven finishes of the Zonda and Huayra’s successor, each with a display case. Also: Minichamps puts most of the 2026 Formula One season into three scales with Antonelli’s three wins at its centre, GP Replicas does Jean Alesi’s Montreal-winning Ferrari 412 T2 in 1:12, Spark has Fangio’s Cuban Grand Prix Maserati, Otto Mobile takes the Beetle to 1:12, and ACME has a 1957 Bel Air that never was.
Spark has opened five Lotus 49Bs in 1:43, running from Jo Siffert’s win at Brands Hatch in 1968 to Jochen Rindt at Watkins Glen in 1969 — part of an eighteen-reference batch that also takes in four Porsche 550 Spiders from Sebring and two Bentley Speed Sixes from Le Mans. Also: BBR opens the Ferrari 849 Testarossa in 1:18 in ten versions, Almost Real takes the Camel Trophy Defenders into 1:64, ACME has first photos of its Fire Chicken Firebird, and Minichamps’ week 42 list comes with prices.
Top Marques has opened twelve references in 1:12 — all three Fords that filled the podium at Le Mans in 1966, including the Ken Miles car, the Mk IV that won in 1967, and three Sauber-Mercedes C9s from 1989. Also: Spark puts two Spa 24 Hours winners into 1:8, BBR opens the Ferrari F8 Spider in eleven colours, Solido announces fifteen including a Mustang Boss 429, and ACME’s Dukes-liveried Challengers have landed.
KK-Scale is doing the boattail Buick Riviera in 1:18 — the 1973 car, in at least three colours, due in November. Also: MCG opens eighteen references in 1:18 that run from an AMC Pacer to an NYPD Caprice, AUTOart lands five Porsche 930 Turbos on 14 October with a sixth colour behind them, BBR starts a Schumacher-era Ferrari series with the F2003 from Suzuka, and Norev has a new 300 SL Gullwing.
Tecnomodel is moving into 1:12 for the first time, with six versions of the 1996 Ferrari F40 LM at twenty-seven pieces each. Also: Minichamps has Lando Norris’s championship-clinching Abu Dhabi car with figure and pitboards, Ottomobile announces seven for March including a Renault 14 and a Fiesta XR2, IXO opens ten in 1:43 led by Blomqvist’s Swedish Rally Quattro, and BBR has both Ferraris from Silverstone.
Amalgam has launched the Ferrari Amalfi Spider at 1:8 — 199 pieces in Rosso Tramonto, with a Giallo Montecarlo version of just nine to follow. Also: AUTOart’s Diablo SE30 in five colours, Minichamps’ 1:18 of Norris’s Hungarian GP winner, first photos of ACME’s King Kong GTX, Mini GT’s Goldfinger Mustang, and twenty-five new Spark references.
First, an update on the site: more than 1.2 million posts from the original forums are back, the Car List now holds 45,145 models with a plain-English search, and the lost member reviews have been recovered. Then today’s news — Spark will build the Suzuka 1000km winning Porsche in 1:64, 1:43, 1:18 and 1:8, BBR announces the Maserati MCXtrema in four liveries, ACME has two Atoll Blue GTOs, and Norev is doing a full-opening Volvo 850 T-5R wagon.
KK-Scale has a 1965 Buick Riviera coming in four colours, and one of them is named after Road House — the fourth film car the company has tooled in three weeks. Also: Tecnomodel announces nine in 1:18 including a Lamborghini 400 GT Monza in five colours, Spark opens twenty-seven new 1:43 references, AUTOart adds four Chargers and a Guards Red 930, and MR Collection builds a Revuelto exactly once.
ACME is importing a 1:43 Mitsubishi Evo IX with opening doors, hood and trunk and a detailed engine, at $109.95. Also: BBR invents the Sculpture Concept and limits it to 144, KK-Scale has the Back to the Future II Hilux, and WERK83 adds four more 1961 sharknose Ferraris.
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