---
title: "New Retro Hot Wheels Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again"
description: "They're even in vintage packaging, for that extra dose of nostalgia."
date: "2016-04-05"
modified: "2019-07-29"
authors:
  - name: "Jonathon Ramsey"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jonathon-ramsey"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/2878/new-retro-hot-wheels-will-make-you-feel-like-a-kid-again"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Hot Wheels"
  - "Toys"
---

# New Retro Hot Wheels Will Make You Feel Like a Kid Again

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Hot Wheels is ready to roll you down that plastic orange road to the glory days of youth, thanks to their 2016 Retro Sets: old-school cars, tracks, and accessories, all wrapped up in vintage-style [packaging](<https://www.getproductiv.com/packaging/>). Originally intended only for Target stores, these throwback toys are already all over eBay—at inflated prices, of course.

The fifteen 1:64-scale cars of the Retro Diecasts collection are the heart of the set, representing the fantastical Hot Wheels vehicles of yore. The [first group of eight](<https://hwcollectorsnews.com/2016-retro-style-series-target-exclusive>) cars is out now, featuring a rose-colored '68 El Camino, a light green '77 Plymouth Arrow, a gray ’84 Hurst Olds, a purple ’87 Toyota­­­­ pickup, and a white Volkswagen SP2, as well as more outlandish old-school rides like the [chrome Battle Spec racer](<https://hwcollectorsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Battle-Spec-k.jpg>), [bubble-topped Power Pipes](<https://hwcollectorsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Power-Pipes-ac.jpg>), and the [gloriously absurd twin-engined Twin Mill](<https://hwcollectorsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Twin-Mill-bh.jpg>). The remaining seven cars—an ’80s Corvette, a 1985 Chevrolet Camaro IROC-Z, a Baja Bug, a Porsche 930, and the imaginary Bone Shaker, GT-03, and Hammered Coupe—arrive in August.

![040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-1.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-1.jpg>)
**Hot Wheels**

Of course you'll need a way to carry all those tiny cars around. The Car-Go Race Hauler ($15) can be loaded with 24 cars, for long-distance trucking to your home’s carpets and hardwood floors. When the ideal location to race has been found, the truck can be reconfigured into a standalone, dual-lane “gravity shooter” race track, or provide additional track for a compatible set.

![040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-2.jpg>)
**Hot Wheels**

The Elimination Race ($20) sets four cars against each other at the start—but only one will reach the finish line a little more than 4 feet down the track. Since it wouldn’t be Hot Wheels without acrobatics, “elimination” here means the losing cars are [catapulted off the track](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESTnpe8W-Wo>) one by one. The set only comes with one vehicle, so you’ll want to pick up some Retro Diecasts to fill out the field.

![040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-3.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-3.jpg>)
**Hot Wheels**

The Sto & Go ($30) is for the Gordon Gekkos of the Hot Wheels world. It's a pricey, portable double-decker playset and collector's cabinet that's sure to [make grown men shriek](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvcPN02y-I>), “OH MY GOD, I USED TO HAVE ONE OF THOSE!”

![040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-4.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-4.jpg>)
**Hot Wheels**

And The Dash & Crash Speedway ($25), which comes with two cars, needs just one short phrase to silence all challengers and assert its dominance: *Twin loop-the-loops, bitches*.

![040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-5.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/040516-vintage-hot-wheels-art-5.jpg>)
**Hot Wheels**

Really, there's no bad choice here. Any one of these sets will turn the present day into the good old ones quicker than E.T. or Bugs Bunny ever could.

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