Showing posts with label Matchbox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Matchbox. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Monarch EV Tractor Matchbox 1:64 Electric.










Monarch Tractor is a Silicon Valley-based startup developing a fully electric and autonomous farming tractor. The company aims to create farming equipment that is both economically viable and sustainable. The company was founded in 2017 in stealth by Praveen Penmetsa, Carlo Mondavi, Mark Schwager and Zachary Omohundro. Praveen Penmetsa is the current CEO of Monarch Tractor. The company is headquartered in Livermore, CA and also has an office in Singapore. Testing and manufacturing of the product take place in California.
The company came out of stealth with the announcement of its $20,000,000 series A round of funding in March of 2021. The company raised $61,000,000 in their Series B round of funding announced November 17, 2021. In July 2021, Monarch Tractor announced its partnership with Hopville Farms in Oregon, funded by Conservation Innovation Grant. Monarch tractor has also received funding from the USDA through partnerships in California, Norway, and New Zealand.

Friday, April 28, 2023

2018 Renault Kangoo Express Matchbox 1:64

 








The Renault Kangoo and the Renault Kangoo Express are a range of multi purpose vehicles manufactured and marketed by Renault across two generations since 1997 in commercial as well as passenger variants. As of December 2019, the electric variant, the Renault Kangoo Z.E., is Europe's top selling all-electric light commercial vehicle, with global sales of 48,821 units since its inception in 2011.

The Kangoo is manufactured at the MCA plant in Maubeuge, France and Casablanca, Morocco. The version for the ASEAN markets was assembled by the Malaysian Tan Chong Euro Cars in its Segambut plant.

The first generation model was also marketed as a rebadged variant by Nissan in Europe as the Nissan Kubistar until the end of 2009, when it was replaced by the Nissan NV200. In September 2012, Mercedes-Benz began marketing a rebadged variant of the second generation Kangoo as the Mercedes-Benz Citan.

Friday, April 7, 2023

2020 Honda E Matchbox 1:64









The Honda e is an electric car manufactured by Japanese automaker Honda, available in the European and Japanese markets in 2020. It is based on the Urban EV Concept presented at the 2017 International Motor Show Germany in September 2017. The production version was unveiled at the same show in 2019. Unlike the layout of the Urban EV Concept, which was a 3-door hatchback, the production version is available only as a 5-door model. Its name was confirmed by Honda in May 2019. The vehicle is styled with a retro look reminiscent of the first generation Civic. Honda's stated goal is to offer electrified technology in all of its European lineup by 2025.

Friday, October 7, 2022

1962 Mercedes Benz 220 SE Matchbox 1:64










The Mercedes-Benz W111 was a chassis code given to a range of Mercedes-Benz vehicles produced between 1959 and 1971, including four-door saloons (1959-1968) and two-door coupés and cabriolets (1961 to 1971). Their bodywork featured distinctive tailfins that gave the models their Heckflosse nickname — German for "fintail".

Introduced with a 2.2-litre inline 6-cylinder engine, the W111 spawned a pair of variant lines which bracketed it in 1961: downscale entry-level inline 4-cylinder engined vehicles sharing the W111 chassis and bodies, designated the W110; and the W112, a high-end luxury saloon built on the W111 chassis with its body but exclusive features, elaborate appointments, and the Mercedes-Benz 300d Adenauer's fuel-injected 3-litre M189 six-cylinder engine – at the time the company's largest.

Somewhat confusingly, both the W111 and W112 lines included vehicles with different Paul Bracq-designed bodywork, the 2-door coupé and cabriolet.

Sunday, November 28, 2021

1991 Ford Aeromax L9000 Truck Tractor Matchbox 1:97 Pemex Autotanque Pipa Huachicol















The Ford L-series (also named Ford Louisville or, for the 1990s aerodynamic models, Ford Aeromax) is a range of heavy-duty trucks that were assembled and marketed by Ford between 1970 and 1998. Ford had been producing their "Heavy Duty" trucks since 1948 and their "Super Duty" lineup since 1958 marketed by various GVW ratings. Truck weight classifications 1-8 were a new concept brought about by the DOT National Highway Administration. The first dedicated Class 8 truck produced by the company, the L-series range replaced the F-series "Super Duty" and N-series (short conventional derived from the F-series). Produced as both straight trucks and semitractors, the Ford L-series encompassed a wide range of models through the Class 6-8 GVWR ratings in medium-duty, severe-service, and vocational applications. The line would become one of the most popular series of trucks Ford ever produced.

The L series was produced in the Kentucky Truck Plant near Louisville, Kentucky, which gave rise to the nickname "Louisville Line" trucks; as part of a 1996 redesign, part of the model line officially took on the Louisville nameplate.

Following the sale of the Ford heavy-truck line to Freightliner in 1996, the L-series was discontinued by Ford at the end of 1998. Freightliner would concurrently take over production of the Ford L-series, opening its Sterling Trucks subsidiary; the L-series became the Sterling A line, Acterra, and L line, remaining in production until 2009 when Sterling Trucks closed operations. FROM WIKIPEDIA.