As MotorTrend celebrates its 75th anniversary, we’ve teamed up with Matchbox to celebrate the first-ever car to appear on the cover of our magazine, the 1949 Kurtis Sport Car, with a tiny ...

Their first toy was a road roller ... starting a trend in model cars that would last for generations. Matchbox cars have always been inexpensive toys, with today’s models still selling for ...

Enthusiasts know it as a movie and video-game star, and even as a surprisingly common matchbox car. The GT-R first appeared in Japan as the top-spec performance Skyline back in 1969. It faded away ...

Matchbox cars. We collected them. We played with them. We loved them. Heck, a lot of us still do. And over the weekend, the man responsible for making these simple, inexpensive pleasures a reality ...

Interesting cars included a Matchbox Regular Wheels 55a DUKW Amphibian ... so they are worth keeping. The first one of any particular series might also be worth something in years to come".

You might not remember your first Hot Wheels car (or perhaps your first Matchbox car; the British brand was bought by Hot Wheels owner Mattel in 1997), but from the moment you were old enough to ...