Hot Wheels has been on a roll dishing us out Fast and Furious cars over their Premium line. Collectors like me have gone crazy over this hot mess to the point that I needed to pre-order my stuff because I can’t hope to collect them from the pegs.
Are these worth the effort?
The short answer is hell yeah!
So technically, these cars are not in any of the movies. These are older generation models of the cars that were used in the movies. Grand daddies of the iconic cars such as the Skyline, Fairlady Z and RX-7. Cars that, if they did not exist, would not have brought us these modern classic gems. So what do we have here exactly?
We have the following cars in this set: Mazda RX-3, Nissan Skyline C210, Nissan Skyline HT 2000, Nissan Fairlady Z (240Z) and the Nissan Sylvia (CSP311). Some non-diehard JDM fans probably won’t recognize the model numbers C210 and the CSP311 but would still recognize the model name given to these classic cars. These are all really old-school classic JDMs and I am quite happy that Hot Wheels managed to bring these into scaled down miniatures.
What Hot Wheels has done here is to re-imagine five of the iconic movie cars from the franchise as their older selves. The Mazda RX-3 for example has been presented in the livery of Dom’s Mazda RX-7 from the original The Fast and The Furious movie. The C210 Skyline is living its life as Leon’s yellow R33 Skyline also from the original F&F movie. The HT 2000 Skyline has the honor of donning Brian’s iconic R34 Skyline livery from 2 Fast 2 Furious. The Fairlady Z (240Z) has been re-imagined as DK’s tattooed gray 350Z from Tokyo Drift. And finally, the CSP311 Nissan Sylvia also gets its screen image from Tokyo Drift as the Mona Lisa, Han’s S15 Sylvia. I did my best to capture these spirits in photos and hopefully I did them proud. And if I didn’t, well, you’ll just have to get them for yourselves.
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