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Ignition Model Alex Moulton Speed S

The United Kingdom brand bike Moulton is making it to scale!  Known for their beautiful truss frame designs and high-performance bikes, the team at Ignition Model is releasing a 1:6 version of the Speed S.  Frame, handle, tire, the display stand is fabricated in resin while the spokes are metal.  Four colours will be offered, each is noted below.   They don’t come cheap, retail is just under $900 CND a piece.

IG0871 – 1:6 ALEX MOULTON SPEED S / PEARL WHITE
IG0872 – 1:6 ALEX MOULTON SPEED S / BUGATTI BLUE
IG0873 – 1:6 ALEX MOULTON SPEED S / CLARET RED
IG0870 – 1:6 ALEX MOULTON SPEED S / WHITE

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9 Responses to "Ignition Model Alex Moulton Speed S"

  1. ilka says:

    Finally, the model to trade 1:10 GT40 for!

  2. Vitaliy D says:

    Complete madness. My _real_ bicycle, which I ride, is 1.5 times cheaper than this toy! Collect real ones, guys!

    • spikyone says:

      The real Moulton bikes can cost over £15,000. Plenty of people have cars that cost them less than the price of a 1/8 Amalgam Ferrari, but you wouldn’t tell them to “collect the real thing”.
      These probably aren’t aimed at people who collect model cars, they’re likely aimed at people who own the real thing or are interested in bike design and engineering. Alex Moulton is a fairly famous name and his bike designs were as innovative as the original Mini, for instance.

      • Karsten says:

        I agree, this isn’t for DS target audience, but for billionair cyclists. I would count myself amongst the people, though, who would recommend investing into a real car rather than buying Amalgam. As I usually say, Amalgam is for billionairs, who have got everything including the size of real estate to display these. Not for mere mortals like myself.

        • spikyone says:

          It’s the same kind of thing – you could not get close to buying a real Ferrari for the $10,000 that a 1/8 Amalgam costs: you can’t even buy a new Ford Fiesta for that money. The same applies to these bikes, you can buy a half decent bike for $900 CND but it’s easy to spend more than that on something reasonable and if you want the thing they’ve actually replicated it will cost you many times more. It’s just not apples with apples.

          • Karsten says:

            Sure, but I’d still laugh at people who buy these mega-expensive models (whether bike or car), but then cannot afford half a decent real thing. The 10,000 would be better used to help buying some decent real transport. Driving a decades old Fiesta that keeps breaking down, but spending money on an Almalgam model is madness. Hence my billionaire statement. If I had an extra 10,000 to spend, I’d upgrade my (real) ride. For the billionaire that kind of money is peanuts and doesn’t upgrade anything significantly.

  3. ilka says:

    Dunno KARSTEN, it’s still not that laughable to me. I wouldn’t buy sealed Amalgam for $900 for sure, but real cars are only taking value, and not regenerating. Especially the ones you can afford for the model price. You’ll be spending a decent amount of Autoarts per couple of months just to keep them running, and when you’re about to sell them, they’ll cost nothing.
    Classic and vintage cars are most ot the time kept in museum-alike garages, rarely even started, not talking about people driving them. So in that aspect, they’re just 1:1 diecast, that still is giving more headache than 1:18 or 1:12 diecast.

    Of course i woudln’t recommend not getting the car at all, it can give you much a lot of fun and memories, I myself own a car that can be considered classic now, and I’m having fun getting my hands on it. But at the end of the day, it’ll get in bad shape until I invest another Amalgam amount of money in it, or some idiot may wreck it anytime; while some Exotos or CMCs will still shine, and only require dusting off/little polish from time to time.

  4. Vitaliy D says:

    For me it’s also a question of common sense. My common sense tells me that a model that costs more than my real bicycle (that also consists of a lot of details, metallic details, and is not fragile as hell, and I can drive it!) is too much to be spent for a toy.
    And a fact that a toy bicycle costs more than my real one just resonates in my mind, telling me that this is just nonsense – well, at least, for me.

  5. Ilka says:

    But with cars it doesn’t work that way.
    You can buy rusty Lada for less than Autoart price. But would it be a sensible decision?
    In the end Autoart can bring you double\triple cost, while Lada, oh boy, there’s no bottom in that pithole.

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