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With all the reports from the toy fair, what new products have you chomping at the bit?

Harry,

Let's just say my slot car budget for 2013 has taken a large hit.

Dave "The Pusher Man" Kennedy showed that Carrera has listened to it's customers and brought out 3 (?) new Cheetah liveries. A yellow one, a lime green one and a polished aluminum one. I'm sure at least one of those will wind up in my stable.

Being one that never rests, Dave also showed me a blue with white racing stripe Cobra coming down the pike. I'm sorry but that is just too much to resist.

Going for the third strike, the BMW M3 Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft looks awesome. I know on my 1/43rd "Martin's-Ville" circuit, these cars are a ball to race. So why not try them on Palm Bay at our club?

But I must say the "Coup de Grace" that Dave showed later in the program was this:



After going through that, I have Maurizio and his minions putting out photos of come new iron to come down the pike. I know there will be at least one of the new McLaren M8s in my collection. Also the Matra that was sprung on us without prior leakage is an awesome move in the right direction in my opinion.

Porsches - you never have enough of them! The IMSA variant - as raced at Daytona is probably going to be bound for the pit box. Coca-Cola is a great looking livery. Another Group C car that will find a home is the Denso Toyota 88C. If you look close at the rear end of the car, you will notice it is a true 'short tail'. I noticed this when building one of their white kits. I can really make one of those Toyota 88Cs really rock on our club tracks. Lots of good things about this particular model. Yep, you can't have enough Toyota 88C models.

It sure is a fine thing to see manufactures that are watching sales to determine what it's customers want.

Let me see
What comes straight to mind is:
Carrera black BMW DTM
Slot.it McLaren M8D and Matra look good
MSC Minis Dakar
The Scaleauto HSV and 1/24 BMW look good as well

Carrera Carrera Carrera!! Porsche 904 and BMW DTM, well, all the DTM's.

I went to the local(30 miles) indoor oval RC pan car races last night to check it out. Glad I did, wanted to get that bug out of my ear. My old Hyperdrive stuff is probably stil raceable in a breakout class or a spec electronics class though.

Now, I can concentrate on the garage refurb and then back to the routed D132 track build.

Being a 1/24th scale fan, ALL of the 1/24th cars, especially the 512. Must agree with Florida_Slotter, the 2013 budget is gonna take a hit. But well worth every penny!

The Slot.it releases in Can Am look great. I'm also looking forward to the Porsche 935's from Racer to add to my Carrera 935 fleet. The herd of 917's from BRM look good too. Hope they get that chassis problem worked out soon however.

Joe F.

Carrera will get most of my slot money this year

Cobra needed so the cheetah will have a buddy

more mopar nascar, was thinking of doing a Larry repaint?

Carrera Porsche 904, I always have been tempted by the Monogram one, but not tempted enough with the price and Ididn't want to deal with tuning the Sebring chassis.

Slot it Lola's and Audi r18. Also the nsr audi r18

The Carrera BMW DTM for me please. That car is awesome!

The more I am hearing about the the DTM's, the more they interest me. With the chassis being the same, I can see a great match up with them.

I didn't see many 1/32s pushing my buttons for the year except those Carrera classics. They also have me pretty excited about the 1/24s they are bringing this year.

Carrera will be getting most of my slot dollars this year, but I have to admit I have my eye on that Racer BRE Datsun 240Z. 8-)

Unofficial announcement of Banque Baring Surdza relivery for SCX Mog Aero 8. I know, I'm sad.

Would dearly love some of the TopSlot cars. Their detail is just stunning. But they don't fit in my budget. Similarly with the Racer Dattos.