Update – 5/10/08: The Hot Wheels Collectors Club has announced that the Cars Motor Speedway of the South will go on sale Tuesday, May 20th. Ordering typically starts at 9 AM PT. The first 24 hours are usually open to Red Line Club members only.
You may have heard that the Cars Exclusive Speedway of the South set expected this year is coming soon. We don’t know the official details yet, but it is expected to be available probably late Spring/early Summer via hotwheelscollectors.com. You will need to have a membership to purchase it, but the membership costs only $24.99 per year. However, the set itself is likely to cost between $150 and $200.
The full set is expected to include all 36 racers from the Piston Cup series in the Cars movie. All 36 racers can be identified below. 12 out of the 36 have already been released in some form.
12 Piston Cup racers currently available
- Lightning McQueen
- Chick Hicks
- The King
- Leak Less
- Nitroade
- RPM
- Octane Gain
- Vinyl Toupee
- No Stall
- Dale Jr.
- Tow Cap
- Gasprin
So that leaves 24, so far, that are exclusive to this set. There are a couple of options. You can wait for the other 24 to be released separately at retail, or you can plunk down the $25 to have a chance to get this set. It has also been mentioned that some of the Cars, don’t know which ones, will be exclusive to this set and not available anywhere else (we’re looking at you Apple Car.) So if you are sure you want them all and unless you want to take your chances on eBay, you will want to go ahead and pick this set up.
Once the details for the Speedway of the South set are available, we will post them here so stay tuned. Here is the full list of all 36 Piston Cup racers along with pictures of many of the Cars taken from last year’s San Diego Comic Con.
- Tow Cap (#4)
- Dale Jr. (#8)
- Nitroade (#28)
- Mood Springs (#33)
- Trunk Fresh (#34)
- Shifty Drug (#35)
- Tank Coat (#36)
- View-Zeen (#39)
- Strip “The King” Weathers (#43)
- Easy Idle (#51)
- Leak Less (#52)
- Faux Wheel Drive (#54)
- Fiber Fuel (#56)
- Octane Gain (#58)
- Vitoline (#61)
- Transberry Juice (#63)
- RPM (#64)
- N20 (#68)
- Gasprin (#70)
- Rev-N-Go (#73)
- Sidewall Shine (#74)
- Vinyl Toupee (#76)
- Retread (#79)
- Creme Filled Gask-its (#80)
- Shiny Wax (#82)
- Apple (#84)
- Re-Volting (#84)
- Chick Hicks (#86)
- Bumper Save (#90)
- Sputter Stop (#92)
- Spare Mint (#93)
- Lightning McQueen (#95)
- Tach-O-Mint (#101)
- Lil’ Torque Pistons (#117)
- Clutch Aid (#121)
- No Stall (#123)
Update – 5/15/08: Two a Day somehow has early unboxing photos up on their site of the Motor Speedway of the South boxset. And yes, Dale Jr. is a variant.
I wonder if they are aviable in Canada yet. Heck, didn’t even know they were out and has anyone seen any broken sets yet?
Are all of these cars going to eventually be released as singles? This 36 piece set is on eBay for over a grand now! It’s ridiculous!
where i can buy some one of this cars!!!!!
13 Piston Cup racers currently available
1. Lightning McQueen
2. Chick Hicks
3. The King
4.Leak Less
5. Nitroade
6. RPM
7. Octane Gain
8. Vinyl Toupee
9. No Stall
10. Dale Jr. (This Dale Jr. is different from the one in the big set.)
11. Tow Cap
12. Gasprin
13. Trunk Fresh
Anything else?
THE DAMN WEBSITE IS MISSING SOME RACE CARS!!!
little tip for anybody looking for new cars check your local walmarts at night about an hour before they close when they bring out there inventory my local walmart has had the same peg warmers for about 2 months but twice i was able to look thru some of the boxes on the floor and both times i have found new Relesases that were not out on the pegs
Your only option is probably to find someone in the US to buy it for you and then ship it to Australia.
Does anyone know how i can get this in Australia when its released other than ebay? I cant join the Red Line Club not being in the US or Canada.
Yes, yes and I agree.
Some of these Cars may not be available anywhere else so it may be worth it.
So is this exclusive offer just available to the Red Line Club on the HotWheelsCollectors website?
Is this what you join to be able to get these cars?
Have to say, $200 is expensive
good christ this has got to stop