Scalextric slot car racing has been around for ages, but like so many other toys these days it has had to adapt its business model to keep going. Gone are the days when all they needed to do to garner ...

Scalextric is one of Britain’s most recognisable hobby brands - Yui Mok/PA Wire Hornby, the model train maker, has sold off its slot car racing brand Scalextric to a US drinks tycoon for £20m. The ...

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A team of model makers spent hundreds of hours recreating the iconic British Grand Prix Silverstone circuit – out of Scalextric. The 25 meters (82.02 feets) (82.02 feet s) (82.02 feet) long detailed ...

Many people of a certain vintage will have fond memories of playing with Scalextric, pulling a trigger and seeing your slot car fly around, or all-too-often off, the track. But disappointingly, the ...

It’s been an iconic British brand - and a staple of many fond childhood memories - for decades. And now, Scalextric is 70 years old. Martin Baines, chairman of the The National Scalextric Collectors ...

Before plastic took over your beloved racing car dreams there was 1957’s Scalextric, made with passion and, well, metal. Forget about those cheap Mini Coopers and Aston Martins of the 80s – this is ...

I've said before that Scalextric, which many people will imagine to be a motor racing toy of some sort, is actually an arena of serious scientific inquiry. A great deal of stuff that was rendered ...

Here at Stuff we love nothing more than the smell of petrol stinging our nostrils, the roar of engines causing premature deafness, all those gorgeous grid girls that hang out with the drivers at each ...

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It sounds like something from the pages of books from the 1960s looking to the future: electric cars powered by current drawn from electrified rails beneath the road. However possible such ideas ...

Sam – an ex-science teacher – uses his physics degree and five years of experience at Which? to test everything from beard trimmers to electric bikes and trampolines. Save article Set as preferred ...