Greenlight made a name for themselves by designing and producing quality Muscle Cars. At some point they decided they needed a less expensive line and started to license castings from HighSpeed that included plastic bases. This new lines was called MotorWorld. When HighSpeed went bust, GL purchased a few of the castings and continues to use them to this day such as the Firebird convertible and the VW Beetles and vans. With Highspeed out of the picture and the cheaper line selling pretty well, they started to produce their own castings for the line and just adding plastic bases to keep the cost around $2.99 a car...initially. The problem today with the MotorWorld line is that only TRU sells them at retail for the most part, but they sell them at $4.99 each...crazy. Online dealers are your better bet where they end up selling on average for $3.99. In any case, I like that they are producing run of the mill 'daily runners' such as the Chevy Cruze, Dodge Dart and Ford Fusion. I just wish the Target and Walmarts of the world would carry this line on a normal basis.
And here is the Black Bandit version with the metal base....
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