{"id":75764,"date":"2025-09-20T19:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75764\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T19:20:11","slug":"futura-designed-hot-wheels-mitsubishi-3000gt-is-street-art-on-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/75764\/","title":{"rendered":"Futura-Designed Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT Is Street Art on Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot Wheels is out to prove that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagerty.com\/media\/news\/hot-wheels-ferrari-line-2025-pictures-pricing-availability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its 1\/64-scale cars<\/a> aren\u2019t just for kids: The brand teamed up with an artist named Futura to design a car that costs significantly more than the ones you normally find in a toy chest. The Futura-designed Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4 blends Japanese car culture with street art.<\/p>\n<p>Futura, who launched his decades-long career by painting graffiti in New York City during the 1970s, designed the livery. He\u2019s known primarily for abstract paintings with futuristic motifs and kinetic line work, and his style shows when you look at the 3000GT. It features graffiti-like accents and multi-colored lines on the body, Futura decals on the roof panel, and a checkered pattern on the spoiler. The look is inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.under-dogs.net\/products\/moment-magnitude-scale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a spray-paint-on-canvas painting<\/a> called \u201cMoment Magnitude Scale\u201d that the artist completed in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"527511\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPG26_PS_25_750_Working_RND1_Simplified.jpg\" alt=\"Futura Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT\" class=\"wp-image-527511\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>\u00a92025 Mattel, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"527514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPG26_PS_25_1131_Working_RND1_Simplified.jpg\" alt=\"Futura Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT\" class=\"wp-image-527514\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>\u00a92025 Mattel, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"527508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPG26_PS_25_443_Working_RND2_Simplified.jpg\" alt=\"Futura Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT\" class=\"wp-image-527508\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>\u00a92025 Mattel, Inc.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"527504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/JPG26_PS_25_265_Working_RND1_Simplified.jpg\" alt=\"Futura Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT\" class=\"wp-image-527504\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>\u00a92025 Mattel, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first commercially-available Hot Wheels car designed by Futura, and it\u2019s much smaller than the cars he\u2019s used to painting. The 69-year-old artist got his start painting subway cars in New York City. He chose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hagerty.com\/media\/market-trends\/hagerty-insider\/is-this-100000-1999-mitsubishi-3000gt-vr-4-a-sign-of-big-things-for-the-90s-legend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 3000GT<\/a> as a tribute to the influence that Japanese culture had on his work and his career.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t look for the Futura Hot Wheels Mitsubishi 3000GT in your nearest grocery store\u2019s toy aisle: It will be sold exclusively online via the Complex Shop or the <a href=\"https:\/\/creations.mattel.com\/collections\/cars-vehicles?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mattel Creations<\/a> site. Its market launch is scheduled for September 2025, and it\u2019s priced at $45 excluding shipping. That\u2019s a not-insignificant sum to pay for a Hot Wheels car, but this coupe is being marketed as an item that blurs the line between a toy and a work of art. Each example will be packaged in an acrylic display case with an edition-specific decorative cover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot Wheels is out to prove that its 1\/64-scale cars aren\u2019t just for kids: The brand teamed up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,51428,19,17,23493,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-75764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-hot-wheels","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mitsubishi","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}