This article is about miniature car replicas or toys. For remotely controllable miniature cars with functioning motors or engines, see Radio-controlled car. For the types of life-size automobiles from various manufacturers, see Car model.
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Model car
Various Hot Wheels toy vehicles
Type
toy car
Company
various
Country
various
Materials
plastic, metal
A model car, or toy car, is a miniature representation of an automobile. Other miniature motor vehicles, such as trucks, buses, or even ATVs, etc. are often included in this general category. Because many miniature vehicles were originally aimed at children as playthings, there is no precise difference between a model car and a toy car, yet the word 'model' implies either assembly required or the accurate rendering of an actual vehicle at smaller scale. The kit building hobby became popular through the 1950s, while the collecting of miniatures by adults started to gain momentum around 1970. Precision-detailed miniatures made specifically for adults are a significant part of the market since the mid-1980s.[1][2][page needed][3]
The scope of the vehicles involved in the hobby, according to Louis Heilbroner Hertz author of The Complete Book of Building and Collecting Model Automobiles, encompasses "ordinary or stock automobiles, racing cars ([...]), buses, trucks, specialized service vehicles (especially fire engines), military vehicles, including such equipment as self-propelled gun carriers and mobile rocket launchers; construction equipment, including bulldozers and road rollers, tractors and related farm equipment; mobile showmen's engines, customized automobiles, hot rods, dragsters, the recently popular so-called 'funny cars', early self-propelled road carriages, and so on."[4]
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Patent-Motorwagen. Commercial cars became widely available during the 20th century. One of the first cars affordable by the masses was the Ford Model T, begun in 1908...
A pin or blade extends from the bottom of the car into the slot. Though some slot cars are used to model highway traffic on scenic layouts, the great majority...
fifth production model since its inception after the Roadster, Model S, Model X and Model 3. After its 2019 introduction, the Model Y started production...
the second-generation model in the United States and Japan, and was widely regarded as a compliance car. The fourth-generation model released in 2019 is...
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special versions of Morris cars. Debate remains as to when MG car production started, although the first cars, rebodied Morris models that used coachwork from...
economy car manufacturers to be inventive. Many innovations in automobile design were originally developed for economy cars, such as the Ford Model T and...
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