Slot car racing, the sport that involves racing scaled-down models of real cars around a multi-lane road course has been around for over a century and, while nowadays kids aren't raving about it amid ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...

Frank Tiessen was 10 years old and still living in his native Germany when he got his first “Carrera,” which in Europe of the 1970s could mean only one thing: a set of electric slot cars and track by ...

We've all raced a slot car, right? You pick out your car and carefully line it up with a thin groove running along the center of a track. With the remote in hand, you watch it zip around and around ...

What goes 0-140 mph in less than a second? Jeff Lutz's Camaro? How about Antron Brown's Top Fuel dragster? What if we told you neither; but in 55 feet—a 1:24-scale quarter-mile—some of the quickest ...

Concept designs often don't make good production vehicles. The more exciting ones tend to ignore regulations and convenience, favoring low-slung, flowing body lines that would be hell to mass-produce.

SPOUT SPRING, Va. (WSET) — If you build it, they will come. BJ Carter grew up here in Appomattox County, and one of his favorite things was walking to the hobby shop to buy and race slot cars.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Growing up in Brooklyn, NYPD Lieutenant John Vitale, 40, became a slot car enthusiast when his parents took him to race these mini-cars while on vacation. “I was always into ...

The beautiful package that the Anki Drive racing game arrives in could easily be confused for that of a Red Rider BB gun, so if your kid asked Santa Claus for that, don't buy him this for Christmas: ...

For David Beattie, the distance between despair and euphoria can be measured in linear feet. That’s why his slot-car track kept growing. This story originally appeared in the November, 2018 issue of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DES PLAINES, Ill. — We’re all guilty of ...