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TSM / Top Speed will produce the #93 Acura ARX-06 GTP of Acura Meyer Shank Racing in its 2025 IMSA Daytona 24 H livery in both 1/18 and 1/43 scale.

TSM Model will also produce 5 different models of Lamborghini, Nissan and Mazda road and race cars in 1/43 scale for release later this year.

TopSpeed will round out their June list of 1/18 scale resin replicas with an updated version of the #9 Pfaff Motorsports Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 that replaces the 2025 Sebring version announced previously, the #32 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO from this year’s IMSA 24 Hours of Daytona, the #888 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO from the 2025 Bathurst 12 Hour, a McLaren 720S LB*Works in Gem Red and an Abarth 595.

Check everything out HERE.

Deadline for both TSM Model and TopSpeed announcements is June 20.

Prices listed do not include any potential tariff.

Reserve your 1/18 scale diecast replica by IXO America HERE!!!!

Tecnomodel will produce 1/18 limited edition resin models of 3 Formula 1 cars from the 1980s and 1990s, including the ‘Tower Wing’ Jordan Honda 198 seen above. Other subjects include the March 881 and Larrousse Lola LC88. Four variations of each will be produced later this year.

Advance order deadline is June 6, 2025. Details HERE.

IXO America has delivered their first batch of 1/18 scale diecast 2025 Indy Cars. 3 Road / Street course versions seen earlier this year and 3 Super Speedway versions (Santino, Larson & Marco) in their Indianapolis 500 liveries are in stock. Great quality with a low $79.95 price point and with non-Chinese production, not subject to massive tariff up charges if the current thaw takes us back to the brink. Additional cars and drivers (including Palou) are expected soon. 

You can pre-order the entire line HERE.

TSM / TopSpeed have issued their first major new product announcements since the tariff war exploded earlier this Spring, making it virtually impossible to set firm pricing on anything produced anywhere outside the US, especially China, where most quality diecast and resin models are produced.

Most of the prices on the 1/12 scale TSM Ducati motorcycles, 1/18 TopSpeed and 1/43 TSM racing and sports cars listed include the 145% tariff on China exports currently in effect. Almost certainly, that number will change several times before these models arrive in the US, where and when the tariffs will be collected so we expect the final pricing of these models to reflect those changes. Most of the extra cost is being absorbed by the manufacturer, distributors and dealers but bottom line is that models will cost more until this game of chicken ends.

If you’re not comfortable ordering under these circumstances, I truly understand. No one in this business is happy about what’s going on.

Paul Zimmermann, Owner, The Motorsport Collector.

Solido’s 1/18 scale 2024 McLaren MCL38 arrived today. Two versions each for Lando Norris (including hi Miami GP winner!) and Oscar Piastri.

Surprising quality and detail for just $64.95.

Click HERE for details.

It’s not just flashing, snarling Porsche cars that racing photographer Rainier W. Schlegelmilch captures in these shots from 1963 to 1988 – though his zoom effect lifts them dramatically off the page. It’s his story over the years, it’s the reality of the track, drivers’ conversations, mechanics’ dirty hands. Feel the vibrations and smell the oil!
 

Massive Hardcover, 14.2 x 11.9 in., 8.90 lb, 356 pages

$125.00 – Order HERE

The recent escalation of the Tariff War between the US and China will affect pricing on most, if not all the model lines we carry. Effective last week, a 54% Tariff will be imposed on all goods produced in China as they arrived at a US Port of Entry. 

We will attempt to absorb as much of the new Tariff as possible but at that level we will be forced to increase retail pricing to avoid taking a net loss on each model. I fully expect that rate to fall as negotiations progress and our pricing will be adjusted as that happens. 

New product listings on our website will be priced based on the Tariff rate the day they are uploaded. 

Hopefully this situation will be brief.

Paul Zimmermann

Owner, The Motorsport Collector. 

The #13 AWA Corvette Z06 GT3.R in 2025 Daytona livery is one of 5 1/18 scale models that TopSpeed will produce later this year. Details HERE.

In addition to the 50+ models discussed in this morning’s post, Spark Model has announced 1/43 scale models of 26 Classic Formula 1 cars, the most important of which (in our opinion) is the #4 Lotus 49 driven to victory in the 1968 South African Grand Prix by Jim Clark. It was Clark’s 25th Formula One Grand Prix victory, breaking the record of 24 held by 5 time World Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. Sadly it was Clark’s final F1 win, as he was killed a few months later in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Germany.

Check out the complete list HERE. Please reserve by Monday, April 7.