CNNMoney.com
Companies Economy International Corrections Pre-market Trading After-hours Trading Winners/Losers/Actives Bonds Currencies Commodities World Markets Money Magazine Real Estate Mutual Funds Taxes Ask the Expert Money 101 Autos Loan Center Best Places to Live Ask the Expert Millionaires in the Making Ultimate Guide to Retirement Retirement Calculators Best Funds Ask the Mole Best Places to Retire Personal Tech Big Tech Blog Techland Blog Sectors and Stocks Fortune 500 Techs Tech Talk 100 Best Places to Launch Ultimate Resource Guide Small Biz Makeovers FSB 100 Ask & Answer Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Main Create Portfolio Edit Portfolio Create Alerts Edit Alerts

Real car designers go Hot Wheels

Mattel invited car designers who usually work on big cars to try their hand at the tiny one-buck-each variety. See the results here, then in toy stores soon.

Mitsubishi Double Shotz
Hot Wheels Design Challenge
Mitsubishi Double Shotz
Designer: Gary Ragle

As a young designer, Ragle also interned at Hot Wheels so he had some experience working at this scale.

One trick, said Ragle, is to remember that the "plan view," or the way car looks from above, is of utmost importance in a car that will be pushed around on the floor.

From overhead, you would be able to see that the Double Shotz has two engines, one in the front and one in back. The Mitsubishi faithful wll recognize them as models of the same engines used in the Mitsubishi Eclipse and the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution.


Hot Wheels

Chevrolet

Dodge

Ford

Honda

Lotus

Mitsubishi
Robocar 2057: 8 visions of the future Car designers show off their ideas for the ultimate robot-controlled cars of the future in the Los Angeles Auto Show's 'Design Challenge' contest. (more)
GM tests fuel cell cars in real world The Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell will generate PR and feedback, but is this really the future of personal transportation? (more)
Outrageously cool custom cars These high-powered sculptures are hand-built from the ground up by small-volume manufacturers for drivers who crave extreme performance, unique design and detailed workmanship. (more)
© 2008 Cable News Network. A Time Warner Company. All Rights Reserved. Terms under which this service is provided to you. Privacy Policy
Copyright © 2008 BigCharts.com Inc. All rights reserved. Please see our Terms of Use.
MarketWatch, the MarketWatch logo, and BigCharts are registered trademarks of MarketWatch, Inc.
Intraday data provided by Interactive Data Real-Time Services and subject to the Terms of Use.
Intraday data is at least 20-minutes delayed. All times are ET.
Historical, current end-of-day data, and splits data provided by Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data.
Fundamental data provided by Morningstar, Inc..
SEC Filings data provided by Edgar Online Inc..
Earnings data provided by FactSet CallStreet, LLC.