Want a Full-Sized Hot Wheels Toy Car? Presenting The AG Excalibur

Grew up playing Hot Wheels diecast toy cars? Well, Lithuanian custom body designers and car remodellers AG Excalibur must have had too many Hot Wheels related wet dreams to have come up with this incredible looking piece of work called the AG Excalibur for us to ponder over for a moment.

Let’s take a look at a Hot Wheels diecast toy car like the one pictured above. A nice but somewhat slightly trashed looking Shelby Cobra Daytona due to collisions with other toy cars, walls and jumping off staircases. It looks pretty good doesn’t it? Especially with those really oversized wheels in different sizes for the front and the rear. If this were a real Shelby, those wheels would be easily 26inches up front and 30inches at the rear.

I suppose this is what has happened to the AG Excalibur. It must have suddenly come into the inventor’s mind like a bolt of lighting, straight to the brain and frying all sense of logic remaining in the poor fella’s gray matter as he then decided that it could be done...a Hot Wheels kind of car could be done. And it could be done indeed!

Designed single handedly by Lithuanian Audronis Gestautas, and based on a Mercedes Benz CL chassis and drivetrain, AG Excalibur boasts a customized aluminium frame wrapped with a carbon Kevlar and fiber glass mix. The Mercedes CL chassis must have been radically altered to fit those huge 24inch wheels up front which run 295/30/24 tires and gargantuan 30inch 315/30/30 tires. Notice that the Excalibur looks pretty much like a Hot Wheels toy car with that outrageously styled body and those humongous wheels.

The Excalibur has wheels so large that the mass of those wheels make it necessary to have 8 piston calipers on the front and 380mm x 34mm discs to make a dent on the rolling inertia as well as to balance out the wheel to brake disc ratio, so that it doesn’t look too weedy. But imagine the unsprung weight of the car and that rolling mass it has to have. It’s outrageous. And one must also note that you can have this car with a Mercedes Benz engine of up to 740bhp worth of horsepower (most likely the AMG 6.0liter V12 Biturbo) to overcome all inertia related problems.

As for the interior (photo above by topspeed.com), AG Excalibur has not skimped. Buy this car and you would get Swarovsky crystals as buttons on the dashboard and center console. You also get Swarovsky crystals as a gear shift stick and another to toggle its hydraulic suspension on the center console. And these are equally massive too. Like two glass goblets in the middle of the dashboard.

Couple this with quilted leather that has a button at the ends of each diamond shaped stitch pattern which goes all the way to the A-pillars as well as the roof, the whole car looks exquisitely garish. Then add that humpbacked whale sitting right smack in the top of the dashboard you know you’ve landed in a Alice’s Wonderland, or Hell. Depending on choice.

And oh, don’t park this car in a seedy back lane as the logo stuck on the boot of the car is solid gold. Anyone with a flat head screwdriver may become slightly richer after chiseling it off.

I suppose AG Excalibur have tapped into a niche market by offering the largest wheels on any car. But coupled with the looks of the Excalibur, I do not think that it is a palatable package for most to swallow. Hence their second model, the AG Shark (pictured below). It's based on a BMW 6 series and still looks like it is a 6 series with Hot Wheels styled wheels instead of a Maybach Exelero clone which was designed on a designer drug induced trip. This may appeal more to Lithuanian movie stars, Russian oil barons or anyone with tons of money and a slight lack of taste that needs to have a full sized Hot Wheels toy car in their garage.

Anyway, it goes to show that people in post Soviet Republic countries have a sense of humor as warped as most of us out here, plus a little extra.