#HotWheels

If you’re not a car person, and you want gifts for car lovers, you might head over to Amazon’s “Most Wished For” automotive products and find what looks like a random mix of great and terrible gift ideas, without any way of telling which one is which. That’s one of the main reasons we’ve spent the last 12 months evaluating, purchasing, and testing automotive parts and accessories, sometimes for months, figuring out which one are worth your money ( and which ones aren’t).

Whether you’re a kid at heart or shopping for a child, Hot Wheels track sets are the perfect way to have fun away from your actual car. Modern Hot Wheels track sets offer a ton of versatility, allowing you to put together the wildest creations and tracks of your dreams. Whether it’s to race head-to-head or side-by-side, or you just want to capture some spectacular crashes or gravity-defying stunts, Hot Wheels offers it all with a huge variety of track sets.

There’s something strange about navigating the toy aisle of your local big box store as an adult. Quite quickly you realize, with a clarity that was entirely absent as a child, that huge swathes of the playthings designed to be consumed by kids (after haranguing their parents for days and weeks on end) exist in lock-step with media properties that are themselves little more than multi-million dollar advertising platforms.

Are you ready to feel old? Those diecast cars you’ve got kicking around in desk drawers, displayed in a place of honor in your garage, or that you step on after your kids left them out on the carpet are now officially middle-aged.

Chevrolet and Hot Wheels are celebrating 50 years together with a new special edition Camaro just in time for SEMA.

This is quite possibly the most intricate and extravagant Hot Wheels track we’ve ever seen.

The second Forza Horizon 3 expansion will arrive May 9 with a pretty special feature. 

We’re all probably Hot Wheels fans, but we have all been outdone by Bruce Pascal, an American diecast diehard whose toy collection exceeds $1-million.

Ford and Fisher-Price have worked closely together to create the Power Wheels Smart Drive Mustang.

Hot Wheels is making every Star Wars fan’s dream come true.

The newest Tesla is the most affordable model yet.

The Hot Wheels Rip Rod is finally alive!

Die-cast car maker Hot Wheels has taken one of its latest toy cars and blown it up into a life-size version, complete with a Chevy V8. 

This past week, AutoGuide hit the Las Vegas Convention Center show floor for the annual SEMA Show. With plenty of surprises from our favorite automakers, the most interesting one to our readers was the debut of the 2014 Honda Civic Si Coupe. You can also check out our most watched videos this week on the AutoGuide YouTube channel.

Even the Ford Transit Connect received some awesome modifications this year at SEMA, this one created with some inspiration and help from the Hot Wheels team.