Pocket rockets
Autocar UK|September 22, 2021
Kids big and small have been collecting Hot Wheels for decades – and the next must-have model could be tucked away in your garage, says John Evans
John Evans
Pocket rockets

Having photos of your treasured modified classic car, kit car or racing car is fine as far as it goes, but imagine if 1:64-scale die-cast models were made of it that the whole world could collect and marvel at. That’s the idea behind Hot Wheels Legends, a global competition launched by toy company Mattel, which owns Hot Wheels, to find the garage build car that most embodies the brand’s values of performance, authenticity and ‘garage spirit’.

Entrants must submit a video of their car to Hot Wheels before 1 October. The UK winner, who will be announced on 14 October, will go head to head with others from around the globe before the overall winner’s wheels are released in Hot Wheels’ 2022 range.

“From an imposing stance, full of presence, vivid colours and an impression of speed, Hot Wheels captures a creative freedom that inspires the rebel spirit in a car designer,” says former Jaguar design director Ian Callum, who sits on the panel of judges. “Hot Wheels takes me back to a misspent youth when I wondered why real cars couldn’t be this way. Well, now I know they can and are. They inspire an excitement that we all need in our lives.”

So there you are: the hook to this story and just the excuse I need to scrabble around in the loft for the two boxes of Hot Wheels cars my sons collected yonks ago. They got a car most times we went to the supermarket. Today, some 15 years later and despite being jumbled up in their branded carry case, the cars look remarkably bright; exquisite, even.

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