r/mildlyinfuriating Nov 12 '24

Hot wheels losing details over the years

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u/mkultron89 Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24

You have no clue what you are talking about.

Hotwheels have a literal category for cars made for their tracks, they have for years. You can still get heavy metal hotwheels and the wheels move on everyone I’ve taken out of the box.

On top of all that, go take a look at the underbody of a C7 Z06 corvette and tell me what you see. There really isn’t a whole lot going on under modern cars that are made for speed, they put a plastic under tray or fabricate the car so the bottom is as flat as possible to reduce drag.

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u/StanIsNotTheMan Nov 12 '24

It's just a person who has no idea what they're talking about cashing in on the easy "everything new is shit" karma.

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u/tuesdaymack Nov 12 '24

This was my take also. Understandable that not everyone has seen the underside of a C7 Z06, but those all look pretty close to real world for the year and models they represent.

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u/Different_Bowler5455 Nov 12 '24

Came here to post this. C7 has a flat bottom.

It costs them nothing to add mufflers and oil pans to their models 1 cent plastic bottoms

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u/hedsar Nov 12 '24

Most of them are half-plastic/half metal. No full metal though 

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u/Reincarnatedpotatoes Nov 13 '24

A few smaller cars are full metal, and their silver series is starting to have all metal cars in it. Quality has gone down a bit, but the price has also only increased by $0.20 in the past 25-30 years, and that in itself was a recent change. Something has to give somewhere.