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Bringing back an old favorite this week: The Slot It SICA16A Chaparral 2E #65 - that and some great new cars from Scalextric and Pioneer!

At the Reef's weekly Slot Car Mondays, scale is everything. Not just the scale of the cars, which is your standard Matchbox-size HO, but the size of the track itself: more than 100 feet, arranged [...]

This week's new stuff includes a cool orange Koenigsegg CCX from Autoart & this Slot Classic CJ33 Hispano Suiza Type 68, 1934. These two models together provide an illustration of how cars have [...]

New stuff from Carrera featured this week, plus a Javelin update: This week we've continued painting the body and we now have the distinctive American Motors red, white, and blue scheme on the car.

Cranbury, NJ January 2010 - No other automobile manufacturer electrifies its fans like the Italian road-rocket-smiths at Ferrari with fantastically crafted dynamics and fascinating designs.

Some of the racers competing in the First Annual Checkpoint Cup retro races were offered a guided tour of the Los Angeles Slot Car Museum. Host Scott Bader and museum curator Philippe de Lespinay [...]

We would love to see this in 1:1 scale diving through the Corkscrew at Laguna Seca or powering up the hill toward start-finish at Road America. We can just imagine the Ferrari V12 wail amid all [...]

Virtually every 1:32 scale RTR slot car made today comes with press-on plastic wheels. We'll acknowledge it right at the start - they are not, technologically speaking, the greatest slot car [...]

Electric Dreams, one of America's largest Internet slot car dealers, is pleased to announce the first of a new series of mail-in slot car competition events, the Electric Dreams Slot Car Challenge #1.

Scalextric slot cars were initially created in the 1950s by British firm Minimodels. The company had in 1952 introduced a range of clockwork powered race car systems called Scalex, which were [...]

Remember the thrill of racing slot cars? That's how the website copy starts... The Saturn Astra Slot Car game has really very little to do with the car it's trying to promote.

We all know there are lots of not-so-well designed slot cars on the market.  I'm not talking about the common gripes, such as knurled axles and press-on plastic wheels, too-delicate wings and [...]