Late Bay slot car expected 2023

No pictures released yet but Carrera have published their 2023 list of new slot cars, list includes:

NEW 20027760 VW Bus T2b "Porsche Renndienst"
NEW 20027759 VW Bus T2b "Peace and Love"

 

Is this a Scalextric type thing?

 

Yeah, slot car is the generic American term, and Scalextric is a brand name.

 

Wow - Christmas present for the grand kids next year then

 

That's going to be boringly slow. I hope they will release layby, oil stained driveway and large shady pitch with electric hookup strewn with empty wife beater tins track sections for added realism.

 

Better not be a splittie like the Scalextric version.
My fingers are crossed.

Stirlingmoz

 

Does it come with the option of European breakdown cover and a big yellow taxi ?

 

Will it come with an oil recommendation?

 

As they've specifically listed it as T2b ... I'm guessing it'll be a T2b

 

It's only the UK and Australia that call slot cars by the Scalextric brand name as they have market dominance despite being the lowest quality toy grade products, northern Europe call them Carrera as they have market dominance, everyone else calls them slot cars because they have 4 or 5 brands with reasonably equal share of their markets

 

Were they always low quality? We had Scalextric as kids (a long time ago) and really abused it, don't remember having issues.

 

Ooh.
I shall have to dig my Scalextric 500 out of the attic…

 

No, but only electric - no real boxer engine, grrrr


"Carrera" was inspired by the Porsche Carrera models in the early '60s (with license by Porsche) and is the German term for slot cars, even though we had some other good slot car companies (e.g. "Faller" and its "Faller Club Racing international", "Märklin Sprint", "Fleischmann Auto-Rallye"). Typical scale are 1:32 and 1:24. Scalextric is somehow unknown here - and was only the first one with push-button speed controls - but there were others before.

Märklin from 1934:


I've loved the bigger/faster 1:24 scale "Carrera 124" (1963-1984, renamed to "Carrera Exclusiv" 1989-2007, renamed to "Carrera Digital 124" since 2008) since I was a kid (left side - with my brother mid '70s). I also had some of my uncle's "Faller" cars when he was younger. But kind of boring today... even with the digital upgrades... compared to RC cars or realistic computer race games or real cars.



regards,

 

https://carrera-toys.com/en/product/20065028-peppa-pig-peppa

 

Is it true they're doing a twin pack which includes a recovery vehicle?

 

Finally due for release in December apparently

https://www.jadlamracingmodels.com/carrera-evolution-27760-vw-bus-t2b-porsche-renndienst-1-32-slot-car/




Stirlingmoz

 

I've ordered them........

 

I'm still waiting - and keep an eye out for real photos...

maybe here some first real photos?!?

https://www.digitalracing.de/Neuhei...-132-VW-Bus-T2b-Porsche-Renndienst::2843.html


https://www.digitalracing.de/Neuhei...ital-132-VW-Bus-T2b-Peace-and-Love::2842.html


(special edition for German marketing cooperation of toy retailers "idee+spiel"):
https://www.modellbahn-kramm.com/sc/20/p/140/31097?i=2662&lang=de