Earlier this week we brought you amazing photos of a Hot Wheel car Mattel valued at $140,000. "WTF?!," is what we heard from a lot of readers who wondered how a $1 toy could possibly be worth more ...

halfway through its Hot Wheels 40th Anniversary Road Trip. Mattel created the Hot Wheels brand back in 1968, and the lives of several Autoblog writers (and readers as well) were changed forever.

created for Hot Wheels’s 40th anniversary in 2008, with a jet turbine engine under its glass hood; the forward-cab Deora II trucklet from 2000, itself an homage to Deora, a similar truck from ...