Reviews

A thread was started in the forum about the new design of the FTE wheels for 2011. Some like it, some don’t…I don’t. My opinion of them got even worse when I hand them in my hand.

Redline Derby focuses a lot on the do-it-yourself racing projects…making your own track, modding your own cars, finish lines, starting gates…if you need it for racing, I believe you can make it. I like making stuff, to me it’s just part of the hobby. But I know that we all don’t have the time or [...]

Here at Redline Derby Racing we encourage racing mainline Hot Wheels cars, the $1 cars found on the pegs. But from time to time, Hot Wheels releases special series of cars that claim to be faster and perform better on the track than mainline cars. Last time we looked at the Target Race Aces, this [...]

Unfortunately, I didn’t discover BluTrack until after I had already spent time, effort, and money collecting classic Hot Wheels orange track. Had I come across BluTrack prior, it might have changed some things…and I would of had a few more projects to work on too. Fortunately, the gracious people over at BluTrack sent me a [...]

When I tell people I collect Hot Wheels they always ask if I collect Matchbox too. While I consider myself a Hot Wheels guy, just like any other collector, there are Matchbox cars in my collection. Somewhere in history the battle was between Matchbox and Hot Wheels. It’s hard to say who won the true [...]

As I’m always looking for Hot Wheels that could be great racers, when I saw the Race Aces line at Target I couldn’t pass up the test. “Made for speed,” the blister package threatens. Complete with nickel-plated axles and a fancy chrome body it sure does look flashy, but does it perform?