Hot Wheels Honda Civic EF

[— Phatmiata —]

We had mentioned before that 2014 was going to be a banner year for nostalgics in the Hot Wheels lineup, and here’s the latest proof. Hot on the heels of the new Hot Wheels X JNC Datsun 620 comes the first photos of the new-for-2014 EF Honda Civic.

This casting of the fourth-gen Civic (introduced in 1987 so it does indeed qualify as nostalgic) was designed by Ryu Asada, Mattel’s resident Honda head. It appears to be inspired by the Kanjo racers of Osaka, Ryu’s home town. However, Ryu’s love for Hondas stems from his parents, who have owned several generations of Prelude since his childhood.

Ryu is a former Matchbox designer who has recently moved over to the Hot Wheels side of Mattel. In addition to the Civic, he’s also designed the Honda CRX and a Chevy C10 also to be released for 2014.



source: http://japanesenostalgiccar.com/2013...ef/#more-28310

[— Agent☣Orange —]

I wish wish wish they'd come out with a Mitsubishi Starion. I bought one brand new right off the showroom floor at 21 making it the coolest purchase in my life at the time but also the most financially irresponsible.

[— fwdtamiya —]

I like this

[★ revlimiter ★]

Yeah, I'll be buying up a lot of those. And Datsun trucks. And black 2000GTs.

And that damn yellow bump-around. HA!

[★ revlimiter ★]

I wish wish wish they'd come out with a Mitsubishi Starion. I bought one brand new right off the showroom floor at 21 making it the coolest purchase in my life at the time but also the most financially irresponsible.

Aoshima does. Check ebay. I've been tempted many times.

Not sure of the scale though... might be 1/43 or so. Maybe a bit bigger than Hot Wheels sized.

[Rogue]

I had one like that briefly

[— Phatmiata —]

.......... and now they are starting to trickle in on ebay!



Check out the prices the scalpers are getting for them!! WOW

http://www.ebay.com/sch/items/?_nkw=...adis=&LH_CAds=

[BlitzWing]

Nothing more classy then being a scalper of kids toys.

Back a few years ago their was a Transformers line called Altinators (or Binaltech if you had the money for the Japanese edition). Scalpers would hunt out the harder to find later waves and sell them on ebay for 4 to 5 times retail. I think Swerve (A red C5 Corvette) still goes for stupid money even to this day.