Trivia

History

The story behind the brands and the real cars you collect.

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Pop Race

How racing driver Marchy Lee turned real race cars into 1:64 miniatures.

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Kaido House

How a former Hot Wheels designer brought kaido racer culture into 1:64 diecast.

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Mini GT

From TSM's founding in 2006 to its recent "Model of the Year" awards.

Cars

The real history behind the most collected models.

Nissan

Nissan Skyline GT-R

The Skyline started as a Japanese sports car in 1957, but it was the GT-R badge, created in 1969, that turned the name into a legend on track and street.

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Porsche

Porsche 911

Launched in 1963 as the successor to the 356, the 911 is the rare case of a design that has crossed six decades while keeping the same core idea: a flat-six engine mounted in the rear.

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Lamborghini

Lamborghini Huracán

The Gallardo's successor, the Huracán arrived in 2014 named after a legendary Spanish fighting bull, keeping Lamborghini's tradition of naming its cars after famous bulls.

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Nissan

Nissan Silvia

Built between 1965 and 2002, the Silvia is one of the most important names in Japanese drift and tuning culture, even though it was never officially built with that in mind.

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Honda

Honda NSX

Launched in 1990, the NSX was built with a clear mission: prove that a supercar could be fast, sophisticated, and reliable every day, and it had help from a Formula 1 driver to get there.

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Toyota

Toyota Supra

Born in 1978 as the sporty version of the Celica, the Supra earned its own identity in 1986 and, nearly two decades after going out of production, came back hand in hand with BMW.

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Nissan

Datsun 240Z / Nissan Z

Launched in 1969 as the Datsun 240Z, it was the sports car that proved a Japanese car could compete head to head with European sports cars, without costing a fortune.

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BMW

BMW M3

Born in 1986 to homologate BMW for touring car racing, the M3 became the benchmark every compact sports sedan since has been measured against.

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Land Rover

Land Rover Defender

A direct heir to the original 1948 Land Rover Series, the Defender went nearly seventy years with almost no change to its face before being completely reinvented in 2020.

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Lamborghini

Lamborghini Aventador

Successor to the Murciélago, the Aventador arrived in 2011 named after a Spanish fighting bull, keeping Lamborghini's tradition and debuting the brand's first monocoque carbon-fiber chassis.

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