Cheaper and cheaper as time goes on. My Tonka dump truck was made from steel and it would hurt me more than I could hurt it.
They can just claim it’s an electric car lol
useless red circle
Shrinkflation
they just came out of a pool!
not as much profit in making durable toys
yup. since my kid was born, we’ve collected them. about 500 last count, all inside, never played with in sand. matchbox ones are cooler though, more real world cars in my opinion.
Lego would like a word with you.
That 2012 one looks like I’ve focused it as a UI component. I need to get out and touch some grass.
Hot wheels from the 70s and 80s were deadly weapons … you stepped on one it was like stepping on a roller skate, you broke one it turned into knife and if you threw one, you could cause a concussion. Even just opening up one of those damned things when you were kid usually meant you severely cut yourself (I know from experience).
Right? They were awesome.
I have one or two hot wheels shaped wounds somewhere on my skull from when my brothers tossed these things at me in a fight … and I returned the favor as well.
This seems accurate to what modern car underbodies look like, a smooth underbody is very important for aerodynamics and therefore fuel efficiency. For race cars it is often even more important not only for fuel efficiency but for downforce.
Also rust protection. Northern cars just having the floor fall out is less of a thing.
All of those plastic covers are a detriment in the north east. All of the salt and sand gets inside of them then you can’t clean it out.
why northern? I thought the Southeast was more prone to rusting as the Mexico Gulf is right there?
Probably salt on roads. Sea air kinda rots everything, salty roads just the bottom.
Salt only lowers melting point around 4°C, below is split. The occasional fire for heating the engine on the other hand…
I don’t pretend to be an expert on salt (though I have certainly listened to the testimony of experts on salt), but I do know there are different compounds that all fall under the general heading of “salt,” despite some of them not being salt at all. And that heading is probably one coined by a layman like myself.
As far as whether the other compounds are responsible for corrosion the way tradition salt would be, I have no idea!
that makes sense, my southern brain didn’t even process that road salts could cause corrosion haha
In the north there’s even people who will specifically head south to buy a car that’s never spent a winter driving on salted roads. Road salt corrodes so badly it’s nasty
Wow that’s extreme, TIL
“Wait, why is the middle car circled?”
Guys, I think I may be stupid
Not stupid, just too many years on the internet. I thought the same thing at first glance.
You’re probably conditioned to expect useless red circles everywhere.
Alexa, set an eye exam appointment for Worx.
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought that at first
Amazing to see Hot Wheels change from gas to hybrid to EV over the years.
Not just that what if these are electric cars and don’t need all that stuff in the bottom. Hmmm
For anyone looking for a fun way to play with your toy cars, I highly recommend the free tabletop game GASLANDS. Glue some guns to them and blow them up with your friends!
Apparently, in order keep the “die cast” label, either the base or the top are die cast.
Some cars are plastic on top and metal on the bottom, and others are metal on top and plastic on the bottom.
As I recall, the wheels are also no longer 4 separate axel pins. They’re just two long pins. One in the front, one in the back.
Lol hotwheels have a locked diff
With free spinning hubs though!
Weak sauce.
The dates are stamped in so I would trust it
Oh, I just meant it’s weak sauce that they stopped adding these details.
Some hypercars actually have a flat undercarriage to maximize aerodynamics. Also not all HotWheels are depicting real cars, so they might not have realistic underbody. This could be one of those 2 cases.
It says Corvette C7 Z06 on the top one, so it can easily be compared to the underbody of the real one, which doesn’t really look like that.
Oh yeah, I didn’t zoom in to check. Just assumed it was unreadable. Z6 does in fact has stuff on the belly, according to Google image search.
