Hot Wheels Porsche 928S Safari | Baja Blazers

Description

The Porsche 928S represents an important chapter in Porsche’s history as the brand’s first production car with a front mounted V8 engine, originally conceived as a potential eventual replacement for the 911. Introduced in 1977, the 928 won the European Car of the Year award in its debut year, and the S variant that followed in 1979 brought a larger, more powerful engine, growing from an initial 4.5 litres up to 4.7 litres and producing as much as 310 horsepower by the mid 1980s. Riding on a transaxle layout with the gearbox mounted at the rear for near perfect weight distribution, the 928S offered genuine grand touring performance, and Porsche proudly claimed the American spec car to be the fastest street legal production vehicle sold in the United States at the time.

Unlike the Porsche 911, which has a well documented history of genuine off road “Safari” builds inspired by East African Safari Rally competitors, the 928 has no comparable real world rally raid heritage of its own. This casting’s rugged, off road styled interpretation should be understood as a fun, imaginative Hot Wheels reinterpretation of the classic front engine grand tourer rather than a depiction of any documented Safari specification 928.

Hot Wheels reimagines this classic Porsche grand tourer as part of its Baja Blazers series, a lineup dedicated to off road performance machines built for desert and dirt terrain. This casting pairs the 928S’s smooth, wedge shaped body with raised suspension, off road tires, and rugged styling touches at 1:64 scale, giving collectors a playful, imaginative twist on a genuine Porsche classic.

Why You Should Own It?

• Represents the Porsche 928S, the brand’s first production car with a front mounted V8
• Part of the Hot Wheels Baja Blazers series, dedicated to off road performance builds
• Fun, imaginative off road reinterpretation of a genuine Porsche grand tourer classic
• Great pickup for Porsche, off road, and classic grand tourer themed collections
• Represents a real base vehicle with a fictional off road treatment applied
• Durable die cast metal build with authentic Hot Wheels detailing