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.
AUTOart has announced twenty new 1:18 references in a week — fifteen Lamborghinis, including four colours of a car Squadra Corse built exactly once, and five versions of the 911 Carrera 2.7 RS. Also: BBR opens the Ferrari 288 GTO in ten colours and a Maserati GT2 Stradale limited to twenty, Spark brings the 2026 Formula One season to scale with Gasly’s Monza pole among fifteen references, and Mini GT is doing Mario Andretti’s Lotus 78 in 1:64.
MR Collection has opened pre-orders on the Ferrari Luce in 1:18 — Maranello’s first electric car, in seven colours with two 49-piece specials. Also: Top Marques lists twenty new 1:18 references including the Toyota TS010 and McRae’s Focus RS, four of them as weathered “dirty” versions; BBR announces the 296 GT Modificata four days after Ferrari revealed it; and Tecnomodel does the 1999 Ferrari F399.
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.
GP Replicas Brings Back Senna’s McLarens and Schumacher’s F2002 — Diecast News Roundup, September 15
GP Replicas has listed twenty-four historic Formula One references for the first quarter of 2027 — Senna’s 1992 and 1993 McLarens, Schumacher’s F2002 in 1:12, Alboreto’s 156/85 and the Benetton B194. Tecnomodel has twenty of its own, twelve of them the 1965 Ford GT40 Roadster in six liveries across two scales. Also: BBR adds seven colours to the 812 GTS, KK-Scale has a 1957 Buick station wagon, and Mini GT opens six new pre-orders.
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.
Two makers replicated Ferrari’s Schumacher tribute before it turned a wheel. It crashed out on lap two and finished sixth. Monza was won by Kimi Antonelli from nineteenth, and only one manufacturer has an Antonelli in the catalogue.
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