Kyosho has opened the Porsche 911S in 1:18 — three colours of the car that gave the 911 its first performance variant, with United States pricing and a date worth watching. Also: Norev puts two Porsches into 1:12 and announces twenty-one more, BBR opens the Ferrari Mondial Quattrovalvole Cabriolet in six colours and the 356A in four, Matrix announces twenty coachbuilt 1:43s from a Voisin Aerosport to a Cadillac hearse, NZG does the AMG GT 63 Pro at 1:12, and GLM has five 1942 Lincoln Continentals.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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