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 ...

Hornby, the model train maker, has sold off its slot car racing brand Scalextric to a US drinks tycoon for £20m. The firm’s deal to sell the toy car racing range, founded 70 ye ...

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 ...

Scalextric has had tough competition of late. Racing toys have gone high tech with the like of Anki Overdrive and Hotwheels A.I. which add video-game mechanics to the physical car racing. While fans ...

It may have started as a humble circuit of rubber strips, but that wouldn't stop Scalextric becoming a thing of dreams. For generations, millions of children have routinely spread themselves onto the ...

Scalextric ARC AIR app expands game-play and adds wireless vibrating controllers. Slot car racing is seeing something of a resurgence with new innovations like Anki Overdrive and remote control ...

With Christmas just around the corner, many boys will be being especially good so that Santa delivers the toy of their dreams under their tree on December 25. And when they see this magnificent ...

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 ...

As F1 is between seasons, many of us will still get our racing fix via the timeless medium of racing toys cars. My whole generation was brought up on Scalextric and while it wasn’t anything more ...

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 ...

Roger Kemp has received funding from the Technology Strategy Board to research the electricity industry. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and Royal Academy of ...

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