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.


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