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 doing the March 707 Can-Am in 1:18, five versions of a car that has almost never been modelled, including Kelleners’ Nürburgring winner and Amon’s Laguna Seca car. Also: Maxima opens seven 1:18 resins led by a shark-nose Ferrari 330 GT 2+2, Sun Star adds two more 1960 Plymouth Furys, TSM and Top Speed put the Daytona-winning Porsche 963 into 1:12 and 1:18, and Esval builds a 1956 Chevrolet emergency fleet in 1:43.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top Marques takes on the Ferrari 412 P in four liveries, Bugatti’s Destrier gets its first scale replicas, TopSpeed’s 2026 IMSA GT3 wave lands — and the tariff picture for imported models got worse, not better.
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