Hot Wheels partners with Gucci for a diecast 1982 Cadillac Seville. Wait, what?

Very hot Wheels is partnering with Italian vogue brand name Gucci for a restricted-edition toy auto. And not just any toy vehicle, but a 1982 Cadillac Seville. Hold out, what?

At to start with this trio of names may seem entirely incongruous, but the collaboration is essentially excellent on so several ranges. Out of the three, the one viewers are almost certainly most familiar with is Hot Wheels. The purveyor of $1 diecast cars has been all-around considering that 1968 and started out generating 1:64 scale variations of muscle vehicles, warm rods and athletics cars. In the 1980s, although, possibly reflecting the 1:1 scale American automotive landscape, some of their castings decisions started to get bizarre. Among cars and trucks like the Dodge Aires Wagon and Chevy Citation was the US of A’s Mercedes-fighter, the bustle-butt ’82 Cadillac Seville. 

Quickly-ahead to existing working day, and Incredibly hot Wheels are hot collectibles. The minor metallic cars and trucks aren’t just coveted by youngsters and adult vehicle fans, but hypebeasts whose total raison d’etre is to get minimal version stuff. Increase to that an explosion of quasi-ironic desire in ’80s cultural signifiers and you have the fantastic industry circumstances for a $120 toy auto printed with the mirrored G emblem.

But even though thoroughly uncool jokers rapidly acquired out the Very hot Wheels and Supreme collab showcasing the hypebeast car du jour, the E30 BMW M3, the Gucci Caddy is really far extra clever. That is because there is authentic-planet precedent, when in 1978, a Miami-place dealer partnered with Aldo Gucci to build the “Cadillac Seville developed by Gucci”. The automobile featured the luxurious brand’s signature environmentally friendly-crimson-green stripes all over, a quarter-roof padded vinyl carriage leading with the trademark “GG” print, and various real 24K gold emblems that ended up were being speedily stolen. Oh, and it arrived with a 5-piece set of Gucci baggage.

Even so, there was also a lesser-recognised Gucci Seville in 1984 dependent on the entrance-wheel-drive next-era (the one the Incredibly hot Wheels automobile is primarily based on). There is considerably a lot less details on them than on the initially-era, but they appear to be to have adopted a identical system. Pretty couple of seem to be to have survived in tact, but a person did make it overseas and resides now at the Museo Gucci showroom in Florence, Italy. It is pictured higher than.

In any circumstance, Incredibly hot Wheels by no means created a 1976-79 Seville, but the ’82 was a person of the most memorable castings of the era. In new a long time Warm Wheels has released numerous retooled variations of their classics, so Seville is in good firm with automobiles like the AMC Pacer Wagon, Ford Fairmont and Dodge Rampage.

To us, the trifecta of a revived piece of Scorching Wheels history, its foundation in a tacky real-world piece of automotive trivia, and its embodiment of 1980s Massive 3 hubris previously helps make this toy worthy of the eye-watering $120 value tag. If the hilariously named “Haute Wheels” is also a duct-taped banana commentary on the point out of accumulating these days, well, which is just icing on the cake.

The Hot Wheels Gucci Cadillac Seville goes on sale Monday, Oct 19 at noon Japanese.