And if you ever find any way over $15, seller is asking too much. Street cars, depending on how popular it may be, you can expect them to be as low as $10, and as high as the Racing cars.
Really? I thought they'd be way more expensive. Please remind me to look for some in a year or so.
I don't see what there is to buy or not buy. The fact that the F&F series has been a success has a ton to do with it, no one said it didn't. There are a million aspects to what we are seeing from Hot Wheels, good and bad. The success of Matchbox in the late 00's was a huge factor to a lot of models getting greenlighted by Hot Wheels this decade. There was a lot of competition between the folks in charge of each brand, even while in the same building, until the powers that be killed it with the brand change at Matchbox. My discussion of those points does not discount the success of the F&F line being the main factor in the Escort's creation, but I chose to highlight another factor as well, for interest's sake. It is a lot more interesting than "the F&F series was a success, so they made an Escort." In all honesty, the VW Caddy is a better example of what I am talking about.
The VW Caddy or any other car that is not a TV/entretainment-related car. Don't get me wrong, I get what you are saying and agree to a certain degree on it, and enjoy that HWs has given us castings of oddball cars and stuff, but talking about it while discussing a car with "The Fast and Furious" on the blistercard almost makes me laugh.
I'll thow out a trully good example of what you are saying, and it's the most equivalent car to a RS Escort this side of another RS Escort that I can think of: the BMW 2002. The casting was well made and depicted a modified version of the car like the Escort, people dug it, and it was a great example of global car culture permeating into the HW mainline. We had 4 versions of it so far and you could find them hanging in the pegs at all time because, even if desirable, the car did not have the black market aura that the Escort will. THAT is a great example of what you're saying and I would have completely agreed on it if you had said such a ting while discussing the 2002. The Escort?
@Nessy just said it:
It just seems to me they're capitalising on the F&F appeal. And i feel that is the sole reason *we're getting the Escort RS1600*. If it weren't for that film series, i doubt very much that we'd be getting it.
*I use the phrase "we're getting the Escort RS1600" very loosely, as i'm sure for many of us, it'll be unobtainable, due to.. well you know..*
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Wow. I googled it a bit & as far as I can tell, it's vintage engrish. Initially, I was leaning toward "Chimica", and while it is pronounced that way in Japanese, I now believe that it is a mispronunciation of "Timica" in Japan. On the front of the card, along the bottom, it reads: Timmy's Minicar Series. I'm guessing that little Buckingham Palace Guard-boy is Timmy, though I could be completely wrong.
Duuuuuuude did you deliver! That's awesome. Thanks.
Er, how about the rear of the card? Car names?
Oh ffs can we just appreciate the car for what it is?
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@Nessy again:
*I use the phrase "we're getting the Escort RS1600" very loosely, as i'm sure for many of us, it'll be unobtainable, due to.. well you know..*
We're appreciating -anticipating is a better term- the car for what it is: a scalper's dream and a great way of making money for HW. Also, appreciate it? You will never find one, and you will have to pay extra for it. Same for any other series in which the car appears in F&F livery. You know when will we be able to apprecite it? When it appears in other colors, which is when people will stop caring about it because not F&F anymore, and when we will be able to find it hanging on the pegs, because I don't know you, but I'm not gonna pay the $10-15 it's going to cost me one of them mainline things. If you do, fine, appreciate it.
That must be some Cadillac then. The opening hood and it's minty condition is convincing.
Jack told me he would go down to $18 for the Paddy Wagon and $16 for the Custom Beetle, so $23 is what he may go down to for the Custom El Dorado. I may try to see if I can convince my dad to pay part for it so I don't go over $20, hopefully his desire to get it that I inherited from him will kick in and he will want it too.
It's a rare car and it's in great shape too. I'd hurry, I can't imagine it lasting too long in there for such a price in that condition. I'd grab it without hesitation, and I'm a cheapstake.
You..... I'm sorry to say, but you remind me of a drug dealer. 
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