Karsten Weiss, Author at DiecastSociety.com

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REVIEW: Benz Patent Motorwagen by Stirlingkit | 1:10

It is celebrating its 140th anniversary this year: The World´s First Automobile, invented by Dr. Carl Benz in Ladenburg near Mannheim, Germany, in 1886. Or that´s at least when he had his gas-powered three-wheeler patented as the Carl Benz Patent Motorwagen. It was the starting point for all the internal combustion cars in the past 140 years, the genesis of Continue Reading...
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PHOTO GALLERY: Five Generations of Maserati Quattroporte

For Maserati´s 100th anniversary of using the Trident as their logo, Cult Scales and KK Scale have filled in the gaps in Maserati´s Quattroporte pedigree in 1:18. That´s why we assembled them around the Neptune Statue from the Maserati Brothers´ hometown of Bologna that inspired Mario Maserati´s creation of the logo. Generation I Quattroporte – Italian for Four-door – seems Continue Reading...
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REVIEW: CMC Mercedes 300 SL Roadster (W198 II) | 1:18

Lost for words are some reviews with this exact version of CMC´s overdue novelty that other manufacturers like Minichamps and NOREV had done long ago. CMC seek to overwhelm collectors with details, materials and functions that allegedly only someone who knows the real car inside out, says Iain Tyrell, can fully appreciate, when scaling down usually inevitably requires simplification to Continue Reading...
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REVIEW: NZG Mercedes-AMG PureSpeed

OMG, AMG, too, sort of jumped on the bandwagon with a similar racing-heritage-nostalgic concept as Ferrari´s Monza SP2, Aston Martin´s V12 Speed and McLaren´s Elva: No windscreen, an air deflection system that only half works, two scoops behind the seats and (except on the Elva) a spine running between both seats, only that on the AMG it arches up to Continue Reading...
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PHOTO GALLERY: Motorhelix Alfa Romeo Giulia GTAm Tricolore

Coinciding with the Olympics in Northern Italy´s city of Milan (where Alfa Romeo was founded), Motorhelix have released a third version of their Alfa Romeo Giulia. This time it´s a red GTAm bearing a sportive Italian tricolore stripe, white bumpers and door roundels with a #69 commemorating some of their successful 1970s racing Giulias. As a change from the previous Continue Reading...
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