Hot Wheels and History

Who does not know with Hot Wheels?????

Miniature of various types cars are there in the world.

WHAT IS HOT WHEELS?

Hot Wheels is toy cars for collected. Kind of thousands each year and only produced once. Hot Wheels car collection are huge number, ranging from ordinary cars, classic cars, sports cars, modified cars (custom /low rider), until the prototype car. Some are produced in limited quantity.

Hot Wheels produced by the toy company Mattel Inc. USA is renowned. Hot Wheels, can be found at Toys Hot Wheels City, Kids Station, Toy Zone, and leading toy stores. Around the world there are many hot wheels collectors, most of them small children but not adults. Among the collectors do the transaction in the form of mutual exchange, purchase or auction.

Hot wheels cars prices in stores only 15.000(may be 2 USD), but in the eyes of the collector price can rise to Rp.35.000(5 USD)  even up to Rp. 1 million (86 billion USD). This means that the price can go up to 2X to 100X higher than its original price which only 15,000 only. When a type of existence increasingly rare hot wheels cars in the store.  Then the price would be increased to quite high. Because this type of hot wheels cars produced only once a year, so any type of car hot wheels 1 year old when the price will go up at least 2X as much.

For example : If the current year 2002, the Hot wheels valuable series of at least 30,000 in 2001, due in stores there will be no backward Hot Wheels 2001 series . And in 2003 all hot wheels 2002 series will also be hard to find in stores Anymore.

History of Hot Wheels.

The company manufactures Mattel Hot Wheels in 1967, was originally a model die-cast (metal casting technique) is issued by the types of cars and trucks 1:64 scale and is intended for use on the set of Hot Wheels game . In 1972, the series " Gran Toros " in 1:43 scale made ​​by Mebetoys in Milan , Italy , were introduced . Until now, the vehicle model with a high level of detail for the collection of adult replica vehicles like NASCAR and Formula 1 racing cars have been reaping success. Hot Wheels products still fluttering on lines that already have a small scale including collection vehicles ' hot rod ' is in custom and also the type of ' muscle cars'. Currently, more than 10,000 models of varying types have been produced.

Chairman of the Hot Wheels division is Larry Wood. He had been with the Mattel / Hot Wheels team since 1967.Hot Wheels product line also included various tracks, accessories, and other kinds of vehicles such as "Sizzlers" rechargeable electric cars, " Hot Line " trains, " RR – Rumblers’ bike motors , ' Hot Bird ' airplanes and others.