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.
Kyosho has cut new tooling for four Initial D cars in 1:64 with working LEDs. Also: ACME’s Hemi Under Glass Cuda at 240 pieces, AUTOart’s Toyota 2000GT in four colours, and Spark takes on the Dakar Raptors.
BBR and Bburago both booked replicas of Ferrari’s Schumacher tribute livery before the SF-26 turned a wheel at Monza. Also: LookSmart commits to twenty-two Ferraris, and one of them is listed as the wrong car.
The revived GMP line has its second car and its first hard edition figure: 402 pieces of the 1969 Camaro Street Fighter RHINO at $164.95, with orders closing 10 September. Sun Star adds a fourth 1:18 Lincoln in four days and this one is an Elvis Presley car, WERK83 books a Steve McQueen Sebring Porsche for 18 September, and MR Collection announces an Aventador SVJ limited to five pieces.
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