Oh, and I found this too: The Matchbox Porsche 911 Turbo...

Whilst at the Motor Madness UK event where I found the two Matchbox Ferrari Testarossas, I also came across this, the 2006 Mainline version of MB's awesome Porsche 911 Turbo casting. To think that this came out in 2002 is astonishing, as it's perfectly executed and one of the best sports car castings Matchbox has ever done. Sure, it would be nice to see a new one, but this looks just as good ten years on. Plus, from what I can see MB is recovering fairly well after a dark past few years - I look forward to the rest of 2016 and 2017, but distribution has to be sorted out as the only place I can find any these days is Morrisons and occasionally WHSmith's (the latter at vastly exaggerated prices).

This example only cost me £1 as it's used, but besides the headlight tampos there aren't any major paint chips to speak of or any other damage, so it was well worth that. It's a beautiful silvery blue colour with front and back tampos, what's not to love? And of course it's one of the last models to sport the love them/hate them 'flower' wheels, as it was around 2006 that they were being phased out for more realistic wheels such as the current 10spokes - this version of the 911 Turbo had three wheel variations because of it! All in all then this is a great version of a great model; one that is so great it continues to be produced (it's in this year's Exotics 5 Pack!) and symbolic of what Matchbox should want to return to - stunning realism.