Matchbox or hot wheels?
 

Which did you like as a kid? I had a hot pink / glitter sedan that was made by hot wheels, and I think that's why I turned out so trashy and drive a douchey civic

Edit: it may have been this hot pink / glitter VW golf, which explains a lot

Had both, but hot wheels were the best to play with. They went way faster and you could build insane tracks for them.

Ertl - grew up in a rural community

Hot Wheels. Had hundreds and loved lining them up in rows all over the den.

i happen to collect matchbox and hot wheels...mainly vintage cars though and i usually won't buy the same model twice no matter if it has a new paint job. Matchbox is best in quality and accuracy but unfortunately they're not as readily available. I mean, look at the section for matchbox and the section for hot wheels in say a toys r us and you'll see what i mean. I also think matchbox doesn't release as many models yearly. So for this reason, most of my collection is made up of hot wheels still. But ideally, it would all be matchbox.

As a kid? i didnt give a fuck what brand it was...

its a nice thing to collect btw since new models are always under like 2 dollars. So it's good for poor people. Unless you buy the fancier types they make...

damn...turns out i have only 15 Matchbox out of 110 cars. Matchbox tends to make cool models HW doesn't do though. Like cool vintage european cars. Judge for yourself, these are all cars i have a matchbox version of that HW doesn't make (well they do firebirds but not sure formula, the vast majority of my HW are muscle cars in fact)

1961 Jaguar E type


1953 Volvo p1800s


1968 Citroen DS


1970 Pontiac Firebird formula



1971 porsche 914


1972 lotus europa

Yeah those are cool but they could use some glitter.

I had a neat game that came on a floppy disc with one of my Hot Wheels once.

whats douchey about driving one of the most popular, reliable, affordable, economical, feul efficient, longest lasting compact cars on the market?

idk why we dont just outlaw all other cars

because corollas

I feel like I'd instinctively fire a rocket-propelled grenade at one of those Smart car things, if I happened to be carrying one.

They're probably good for the environment, I realize, but you could say the same for mass murder.

really though, how did ISIS end up with so many toyotas.

because toyota makes more cars worldwide than anyone else and i also expect they're more prevalent in asia than american models because you can literally drive them there, no shipping. honestly that's probably dumb since it's probably easier to ship them from japan to kuwait or dubai or abu dhabi or something

it's hard to think of a basic, economy european car manufacturer. there's the french ones i guess but nobody outside of france (or quebec, apparently) wants to buy one.

although i will say there was that hilarious occurance that some poor texas bastard's plumbing company was on the side of an ISIS truck that ended up on the front page of the NYT

You must spr

I didn't have many toy cars as a kid but I distinctly remember having a few that I think we're my dads from the 70s that has these reversible side panels on them with impact damage, and you could kind of flick them over with a bit of force,must have been a spring in there or something, so if you had two toy cars you could drive one into the side of the other one and it would looks like the side panel of the car had taken damage it was really cool.

Skoda
Fiat

The Toast household was strictly a Hot Wheels one.

European manufacturers are more or less the standard in Argentina and Uruguay, where I can only assume that it'd be a similar situation for the region as a whole. You see a lot in the way of Renault, Fiat, Peugeot, Alfa Romeo, Citroën, and Volkswagen. Mostly hatchbacks, coupés, and smaller sedans.

Chevrolet and Ford are also popular, that said, while Asian brands aside from Toyota were far less common.

Yes, you've traveling to a certain, very small area in South America. We get it

It's something that TEB said that I've taken to heart. Mine is a gen 8 coupe in a bright red so I'm sure it is included in "douchey" category. But it feels great to, as of late, pay fewer than $20 at my weekly fill up.

here's pic of my van

what have i said now?


Also Argentina isn't that small....

He's not from Argentina and I doubt has spent considerable time in most of it. He goes to visit his oboard girlfriend and thinks he's an expert on South American culture now.

I'd rather push a Chevy than drive a Ford.

I've got loads more

keep in mind more than half of argentina is sparsely populated pampas or patagonia