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.
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.
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.
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.
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