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Hot Wheels ELITE64 Bugatti Type 59 FEATURETTE
Elite64 Series by Mattel Creations The Mattel Creations website has been offering highlights for collectors for years, focussing on special collector’s items that are usually limited to 30,000 pieces. The so-called Red Line Club with the Red Line models. Many of these have the potential to increase in value. This is partly due to the limited number of models, but also to the exceptional details and functions. Because we’re not talking about $2 Hot Wheels models here, but tangible collector’s items! These more or less include the Elite64 side series, which was launched in 2023. Elite 64 is a Premium-style series featuring true 1/64-scale cars. All castings feature multiple separate…
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Ever wanted to build a V8 engine? – MEDIEVALBRICK / MAD RC FEATURETTE
Extremely trivial basic question: What is a V8-Engine? Long story short: A V8 is an internal combustion engine in which eight cylinders are arranged in two rows around a common crankshaft. The resulting V-shape gave this design its name. As the alternative design, the in-line engine, would result in a very long engine block, car engines with eight cylinders today are never in-line engines, but mostly V-engines Since then, the V8 has bubbled its way through automotive history. A so-called flat-plane crankshaft was used in early models. This is characterised by the fact that there is a 180-degree angle between the crank throws. This results in a regular ignition change…
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An automotive Icon turns +30 || McLaren F1 RED LINE CLUB FEATURETTE
F1 turns +30…. In the early 1980s, former mechanic Ron Dennis took over McLaren – and turned the new McLaren Group not only into a successful racing team, but also into a technology company. Dennis always managed to bring new partners on board – which made him one of the richest men in England. And he also repeatedly found engineers and specialists who became the best in the world in their field at McLaren. One of them was Gordon Murray. The South African had worked at Brabham from 1969 and joined McLaren as Technical Director in 1987. His vision became reality with the McLaren F1. Between 1993 and 1997, around…
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ONE LAST RIDE – KB43 Ken Block Porsche 911 SVRSR HOONIPIGASUS FEATURETTE
The legacy of KB43: The Porsche SVRSR “Hoonipigasus” was actually supposed to win the legendary hill climb on Pikes Peak in 2022 with drift king and showmaster Ken Block at the wheel. However, an engine failure paralysed the 1,400 hp four-wheel drive 911 of the Hoonigan squad in qualifying. The team competed again in the 2023 edition of Pikes Peak – tragically without Ken, who passed away in January 2023. The pin from Faithpin naturally matches the model with many little details In Memory of Ken Block… In his honour, his 16-year-old daughter Lia Block took the wheel of the pink-coloured monster in 2023. However, she took it easy at…
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TPC Apollo IE vs Peako64 DeTomaso P72 FEATURETTE
Gumpert: German tradition in Chinese hands. A bright future ahead? In 2012, the Gumpert company filed for insolvency. The rights to the Apollo brand were sold to a foreign investor. This investor, Ideal Team Ventures from Hong Kong, founded Apollo Automobil GmbH with its headquarters in Denkendorf, Upper Bavaria. It is the direct successor to Gumpert Sportwagenmanufaktur. The legendary sports car brand De Tomaso is also part of Ideal Team Ventures’ portfolio. We once had the chance to talk to Norman Choi, the new founder so to speak, when he presented the DeTomaso P72 in Switzerland in 2021. He is a very interesting personality who is taking DeTomaso and Gumpert…
