…Also the bottom Five.
The Hot Wheels Target Red Edition are one of my favorite store exclusives. I have compiled a complete checklist from 2017-2022. The Red Editions are Target exclusive basic models. They share the same deco as the mainline cars, but have exclusive colors, of red, white, and black. There is always a complimentary mainline version of a Target Red Edition. This Series began in 2017, with 12 releases per year in groups of three per release. Today, let’s take a look at my personal top ten Red Edition Hot Wheels.
The Top Ten:
- 77 Pontiac Firebird
- 68 Chevy Nova
- 32 Ford 2x
- 19 Chevy Silverado Trail Boss LT
- 83 Chevy Silverado
- 67 Chevy C10
- 91 Mazda MX-5 Miata
- Custom 53 Chevy
- 56 Ford F-100
These are my highlights from the run. I’m clearly partial to Chevrolet and the Chevy trucks, but I like all of these for how they use the Red Edition criteria to their advantage to make a nice looking car. The red, white, and black should be complimentary and make sense with the given design. If I had to keep one, it would be the UNO 32 Ford, because it actually changed tampo design from the main line, the only time that has happened so far.
Red Edition Honorable Mentions:
These all share one common trait. Red-on-white. For a line called Red Edition, there are a lot of white cars. These ones stick out to me as the nicer ones outside of the top ten.
Red Edition Bottom Five Six(The wastes of a spot):
Hot Wheels is notorious for throwing in random HW design cars into lineups and dragging them down. These are what I consider to be wastes of a spot, as there are only 12 per year in the Red Editions, and a lot of better cars get passed over.
