The short answer: we do not know what your car is worth, and neither does any page that names a number without seeing it. What we can do is show you every fact a price is built on.
Why we name no prices
A Hot Wheels price depends on condition, packaging, the region you sell in and what someone is willing to pay this week. A database that prints a figure next to 50,292 releases would be guessing 50,292 times. We would rather be useful than confident.
What a price actually rests on
- Rarity. The chase cars are the Super Treasure Hunts: 298 of our 50,292 recorded releases carry the STH mark – roughly one in 169. Regular Treasure Hunts: 487. How to spot one.
- Age. The Redline years 1968–1977 are the collector end of the hobby. Our records run from 1968 to 2027.
- Condition and packaging. The same car carded, unopened and uncreased is a different object from the same car loose. This is usually the biggest single factor – bigger than the casting.
- Variations. Wheel type, base country and paint separate releases that look identical on the peg. Our model pages list all three.
- Demand for the casting. Porsche, Datsun and Skyline castings move; many others do not, however old they are.
Three steps to place your car
- Read the toy number from the base or the card and search it here – that identifies the exact release, not just the model name.
- Check whether it is marked TH or STH on its page, and compare with the Super Treasure Hunt list.
- Read the base code for the pressing year and the country on the base – together they date the car, and the wheel type separates variations.
Where a real number comes from
Only from completed sales of the same release, in the same condition, with the same packaging. An asking price is not a value. If you find no completed sale at all, that is an answer too: the car is common.