All styles of car modification have their fans and critics, but few styles are as divisive as the slammed or stanced car. With their wheels tilted out at an angle and their bodies only barely above ...

Kids are still playing with Hot Wheels, those gleaming toy Camaros, Cougars and Corvettes you got for Christmas or your birthday, years and years ago. But those kids, who are sending new and even ...

When Mattel introduced Hot Wheels back in 1968, the 1:64 die-cast cars were almost an instant hit. Using television to advertise the bright little cars with moving wheels to a wide audience likely ...

In 1968, the US toy company Mattel was looking to create a die-cast car range that would outperform the competition. Elliot Handler, together with his wife and company co-founder Ruth Handler, ...

The quintessential old-school Hot Wheels wheels, shiny discs with six little lines carved into the chrome, are from a line of the toys called “Ultra Hots.” I’m sure some of you fondly remember racking ...