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.
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.
CMC has taken the Bartoletti racing transporter down to 1:64 with 342 individual parts, opening workshop doors and working steering, at $139. Also: Minichamps opens its first quarter of 2027 with Valentino Rossi’s whole GT career.
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.
Sun Star has put its own date on the 1956 Lincoln Premiere: October 2026, two quarters earlier than one distributor listed it. Also: Minichamps takes on the Porsche 911 Spirit 70, and Tarmac Works books thirteen.
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.
GLM and Stamp Models opened a joint pre-sale this morning covering nine references and not one European car among them: the 1989 Lincoln Town Car Signature Series in 1:18, a 1956 Chrysler New Yorker Convertible in 1:43, and the 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado in 1:43, all quoted for 10 November. KK-Scale added a second Lincoln in the same 24 hours, AUTOart announced the Aston Martin Vantage in two colours, and Minichamps moved its Verstappen RB22 hand sample up to 1:18.
The Aston Martin Valhalla lands in three scales at once as TSM rolls it out through Mini GT in 1:64, TSM in 1:43 and TopSpeed in 1:18. Mini GT opens pre-orders on six references today, AUTOart adds the DB11 and quietly doubles its 930 Turbo run to six colours, Sun Star tools the Sanremo-winning Impreza 555 in 1:18, and Ottomobile announces six new items for January 2027.
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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