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ModelCarKings @ModelCarKings
Joined November 2024
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Everyone said the manual was dead. Koenigsegg gave the CC850 a gearbox that is both 6-speed manual and 9-speed auto in one. A tiny Swedish team still out-engineering the giants. #Koenigsegg #Diecast #ScaleModels
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Horacio Pagani left Lamborghini because they wouldn't back his carbon fiber ideas. People said one man couldn't out-build Ferrari. The Zonda and Huayra proved them wrong, and now each one sells for millions. Never bet against the obsessed. #Pagani #Diecast #ScaleModels
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One of the last Rolls-Royces hand built in Crewe before BMW took over in 1998. Nobody talks about the Silver Spurnow. Give it ten years. The last of the old-world Rolls is exactly what collectors end up hunting. #Diecast #RollsRoyce #ScaleModels
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BMW built 252 of these and nearly went bankrupt doing it. The 507 was a flop when it launched. Today a real one sells for over $2 million, and Elvis bought one while stationed in Germany. The cars that flopped in their day are the ones collectors hunt forever. #Diecast #BMW
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A widebody Mustang in adidas livery. Purists call it ruining a muscle car. They said that about every mod that later blew up in value. Clown it today, hunt it later. #Diecast #Mustang
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A pink Cadillac. Tail fins to the moon. Chrome for days. Elvis made it a legend. 1959 made it timeless. Some icons you don't drive โ€” you display. ๐ŸŽธ #Cadillac #Eldorado #Elvis #Diecast #ScaleModels
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Nissan just killed the GT-R. No replacement. The R34 was illegal in the US for 25 years. By the time you could legally own one โ€” $200,000. Now it's gone entirely. The cars everyone sleeps on are always the ones worth collecting. #NissanGTR #Diecast #JDM #CarCollector
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People spend $3,000 on whisky they'll never open. $500 on wine "saved for a special occasion." But they laugh at $65 for a 1:18 Ferrari FXX K EVO that'll triple in value over the next decade. Priorities. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ
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Lamborghini built an SUV. "Not a real Lambo." Then it became their best-selling car ever. Then they made it the most powerful Lambo ever built. The cars everyone laughs at are always the ones worth watching. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ #Lamborghini #Urus #Diecast #CarCollector
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The 992 GT3 RS is the last naturally-aspirated GT3 RS Porsche will ever build. Next gen goes hybrid. Collectors always know what happens to "the last of anything." The clock is ticking. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ #Porsche #GT3RS #Diecast #ScaleModels #CarCollector
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Before you @ me about the Xiaomi post โ€” Japan did this in the 80s. Korea did this in the 2000s. China is doing it now. The F40 was "just a car" in 1987. Now it sells for $1.8M. Collect what others dismiss. ๐ŸŽ๏ธ #Diecast #ScaleModels #Ferrari #F40 #CarCollector
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Nobody wants to say it out loud. So I will: The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra just lapped the Nรผrburgring faster than a Ferrari 488. A Chinese sedan. Faster than a Ferrari. The European supercar industry is in serious trouble. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ #Xiaomi #SU7 #Ferrari #Nurburgring #supercar
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