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Honda announced the arrival of Honda Racer, a much-awaited 1/64th scale Hot Wheels auto designed in Torrance by Honda R&D Americas, Inc. The Honda unit, alongside having designs from five additional carmakers, was selected as a part of the Hot WheelsDesigner’s Challenge - a way for celebrating the die-cast brand name’s 40th anniversary. Honda Racer arrives in May 2008 on store shelves.
"The Honda Racer combines the excitement of Honda’s racing heritage with Hot Wheels’ reputation for speed, power, performance and attitude," says Guillermo Gonzalez, the senior designer at Honda R&D Americas, Inc., and the designer of the Honda Racer. "The core concept is built around our idea for an ’ultimate racecar’ and leverages the design freedom made possible by a scale model car."
"Sure, it is awesome to play with the cars on the orange track again, but I discovered that designing a Hot Wheels car is very different and in some ways more liberating than designing a production car," says Gonzalez, some native of East Los Angeles, considering automotive design to be the dream job for him. "For example, the primary design constraint is that the car had to fit on the orange track and perform a loop. Aside from that, the possibilities are without limit."
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