Almost Real unveils a couple of upcoming Brabus G-Class SUVs. Love or hate the SUV specimens there is no doubt the team can execute with exceptional detail and full 360 access! These are 1:18, diecast metal with plastic parts examples. No official word on release dates, though, we suspect mid-year 2021 release.
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The G800 looks absolutely stunning! A Black Ops version would be nice too
Definitely looking forward to these. They look amazing. Autoart and Kyosho need to step up their games to even compete with AR
Model seems very nice.
But there is something I really don’t understand. AR are having difficulties keeping their releases up with their samples or ideas. So why another G-class? Probably a fair amount of collectors like the G-class, but how many brands have made it now? And in how many variaties? I would rather have AR concentrate on cars that haven’t been made this much as a model. Seems like a waste of time and resources to me.
I, personally, am getting a bit G-class tired.
I can absolutely see your point, especially while waiting for the Huayra. But #1 it´s making good sense economically to make most of the G class tools and moulds, and #2 the Huayra Roadster has been done before and you and I wouldn´t want to drop it, would we?
I have recommended one or two things to them that have not been done in scale yet, but would not want to disclose that publicly.
Actually, there is very little new ideas and the same models are made over and over again,
I absolutely agree and even though there may be a business case to be made to mill every single mold created, I do think it is something that they should be called out for as well.
Being a collector since the early 1990’s. There are just certain cars in which have been made by at minimum, 5+ different companies to the point where the market is completely saturated with them. I am talking about cars like the 1969 Dodge Charger, 1970 Chevrolet Chevrolet, and then we have the early 2000’s with the C5 Corvette, Viper, 2000 VW Beetle, Plymouth PT Cruiser, Nissan 350z, Porsche 996, etc, etc. It got pretty redundant by the time they made a second or third version of these cars. Out of all of these, the 996 and C5 made some sense because they have different versions, but even that got tiring after a while.
Looking at the market today and which model(s) stand out as continuing that tradition? First one that comes to mind is the Mercedes G-Klasse. I bought one from Hotwheels about 15 years ago back in the day, then sold it and bought an iScale model at a pretty good price. I’m happy and certain don’t need to continue looking for one. Perhaps I am in the minority, but perhaps I am not!
I´ve got a silver AUTOart G-Klasse from back in its day and have happily given all the other (even updated generations of) G Klasse models the pass, as the car has retained it´s general shape over the decades. I neither care for the six wheelers or any other attempts to turn this into a more brutish rendition. This top end BRABUS is the first to tempt me. So personally, I could have done well without all the G Classes after my AA.
But it would be sad if AR dropped the Huayra Roadster. AA and LCD did not tick all the boxes for me. That´s why competition is needed.
You have a good point, the Brabus one does separate itself from the run-of-the-mill G’s. I may be completely wrong here, but I just think of these molds as a zero sum game: the money used for tooling costs of a diecast that 6 others are producing is money that should’ve been spent on perhaps something that hasn’t been made in 1:18. This means that if there are 6 different variants of something on the market, that’s probably 3-4 too many and thus, that money could’ve been spent on tooling costs of perhaps 3-4 cars currently not being made. But I understand that that is not possible because these companies don’t collaborate with each other.
Yaassssssssss! looks good..hope they keep up with their release schedule..
I always thought beefed-up 4-wheelers are Welly territory sort of and I would never think twice about getting one of those brute russian billionaire Berlin arab clan street monsters, but if diecast modeling is getting so delicate I think I have to change my mind. Is there a little golden neck chain included?
Hahahahaha. Chain included :)