Hot Wheels - Tesla

I’ve come to paw through the clearance isles of Target to see if there are any interesting airplane toys. Not everyone wants to have a diecast metal X-29. Looking through the Hot Wheel & Matchbox cars, I found a Tesla Roadster. Cool! For less than a dollar, I have a little electric car on my desk.

So does it mean you’ve arrived if Mattel licenses the likeness of your car to sell to kids around the world? Lots of Porsche, Corvettes and classic American muscle cars. All cars with big engines that go real fast. Instead this little beauty has batteries and goes real fast. With that mindset, I doubt a Prius will ever grace a Hot Wheel track (I jumped many a car in my Grandmother’s house when I was much, much younger).

Tesla did send out today a bunch of updates. I am very interested in seeing what the Model S looks like, which was called the Whitestar at one point. It is the four door sedan that Tesla wants to build here in San Jose. Tesla does get DoE money to help them develop the Model S. Pretty cool that - build up a new American car line as Detriot goes down in flames. Also telling that their design studio is at SpaceX Corp. The same guys who built their very own rocket with private funds and put it in space.

-Mike M.