[Closed] saw this at Legacy...Tempting but....

This tells me that the experiment with a static model with no opening features...

... isn't working. Excellent! I don't want to the industry to go in that direction. While I admire the courage of BBR to take such a bold marketing step, it pleases me to see that genre apparently isn't yielding the desired sales results in 1:18 scale. However, since the hatch isn't attached with hinges, I can't quite call this an "operating" feature. However, at least it shows that the buying public demands more than just a 100% static model. This pleases me to no end. Also, this is just gorgeous!

I agree Marlowe and no offense to Legacy, but to pluck down $600.00 for a resin model is getting a bit too much. For that price, you could buy three Auto Arts and possibly four.

My take on the resin side.....

I recently purchased a GT Spirit Porsche in resin to, basically destroy to see how they are made and whats involved with creating working doors on it.

First off the finish is flawless...the bodyline are spot on and as a stand alone curbside piece its displays beautifully.

Hard reality to me is I just do not see the value at (for this car) $100 for a body painted extremely nice. Mind you remember I repaint diecast for customers now and charge a lot more than this for a repaint but these resin models are mass produced.

While the additional details are of very high quality (headlights, taillights, grills, tires and wheels. The interior while nice is more early Ertl then Auto Art... the chassis has sparse detail on it and while heavy its just what I would call, a very nice model with no "finger fun".

It might seem as though I am posting negatives but given the, I believe, 1000 car run of these @ $100 each I think they are making a very nice profit since I just don't see the detail as I did in a Highway 61 or Sunstar and current Autoworld, AutoArt and Acme cars.

In this case I would rather pay $30 more for a more detailed diecast but when resins are in that $200-300 range I have to step away. I really thought the advent of resin models was going to stabilize the pricing since diecast was going up up up but it hasn't to me and I will be curious to see what happens in the future.

More than likely it will be released in other colors.......

after this production run sells out [ if it does] BBR always makes the most use of their product.

i agree what has been said about the lack of features, but in some cases there will be no other option [Ferrari 275GTB, Ferrari 126C2] available in a diecast version.

One more take...........

I don't think that BBR's model is really the portent of things to come.

First of all it is a Ferrari and in the world collector market there is Ferrari and then everyone else. This car is no bargain and one opening hatch doesn't put this car in even the same universe as say an Autoart Alfa Romeo 33-TT-12, which is much cheaper.

What I do think is that more models will go the hybrid route of the Autoart Aston Martin

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In this case you get opening doors and a full interior but no engine to look at.

The real problem for someone like me is that I'm not in an 'either or' position. I'm not buying a 1962 piece of Detroit iron over a Le Mans winning Ferrari. Good bad or indifferent, the models I wanted this year came pretty much exclusively in resin and are esoteric enough that they will likely never come out in any other form.

As time passes there will be fewer and fewer cars that will have such widespread demand that manufacturers will look to do the tooling necessary to make fully functioning diecast cars.

Case in point - the CMC Ferrari 250 GTO - This should be the last car I pick to make my point as it is a Ferrari and indeed CMC is making a number of different colors. But look deeper. CMC wants 450.00 for a car that is really just a re-bodied 250 GT SWB. That means that almost all of the parts 'under the skin' were already designed, manufactured and sitting in the parts bins ready to go. Their 250 GT SWB is a car that I bought in 2005 for about $200.00.

It would be easy to say that CMC is just price gouging because people will pay anything for a Ferrari but I think the truth is that production costs have increased that much in the last ten years.

I think that resin is here to stay in the race car world I live in - with the odd exception here and there. And that in the 'street' car world the price will continue to go up and the variety will continue to go down - that is unless North Korea starts making diecast.

re your last comment - N. Korea seems more interested in making bombs than diecast cars.