Amalgam Collection counts among world’s leading car replica makers. Prices for their ‘toy cars’ – if you will forgive the allegedly poor word choice here – sometimes go into tens of thousands of USD. Watch the video, though, and you will see why.
The 1:8 replica of the McLaren Speedtail depicted here comes with a $15,000 price tag attached. Sure, you could buy a semi-decent brand-new car for that kind of money, but that is beside the point. The constructor set includes more than 1,000 pieces, inclusing realistic suspension parts, seats, brakes, wheels, and much more. When you consider the sheer level of detail, you will no longer wonder why it even looks like the real thing.
Of course, such finesse would not be possible without at least some assistance on behalf of the manufacturer. It is reported that McLaren let the Amalgam Collection crew take apart a real-life Speedtail for this – not a small gesture, considering that the hybrid-powered hypercar costs north of $2,000,000.