2025’s Hot Wheels Motor Show is the Best 5 Pack in Years!

It’s not every day – or even every year – that we get a new five pack that’s this exciting!  Almost without failure, we get five packs with one or two interesting cars and a couple of cheap models with high plastic content.  Often, Hot Wheels even throws in a generic or two for good measure!  Not so with this new Motor Show pack – it’s all licensed models, and collectors have definitely noticed. 

Despite this technically being a 2025 pack, it’s taken me until now to find it on the pegs.  It seems collectors are gobbling up every one of these packs that they can, and it’s hard to blame them.  I haven’t seen a five pack with this much collector hype since the Lamborghini five pack back in 2020!  With all the hype around a pack like this, it can be tempting to pay a reseller markup to get one, but I have a rule with five packs: they always show up eventually.  In all my years of collecting, I have never seen a five pack that I didn’t eventually find at a Walmart or a Target…and so it was with this pack. 

Now that I finally have it, I can confirm that it was definitely worth the wait!  While there isn’t really a bad model in the set, the burgundy Ferrari SF90 is the undisputed star of the show here.  I’ve made no secret of my love for this casting, and this dark red paint is a great match for it. 

Unfortunately the printed detailing is just as lacking as the rest of the SF90 recolors, with no rear detailing to be found.  Unlike the rest of the SF90’s, this one wears silver wheels that I think look great!  Against the dark paint color and tinted windows, the brightness of the silver PR5’s really pops.  

Hot Wheels really seems to be getting their mileage out of this casting, as it debuted midway through 2025 and this is already the third of five known recolors.  Given that there is rumored to be a Ferrari 5 pack coming in 2026, I can only assume we will see yet another recolor there and I can’t wait to see it! 

When it comes to getting mileage out of a casting, it’s hard to beat the Lamborghini Huracan.  By my count, this is now the eighteenth version of this casting to be released (not counting the unobtainium NFT version).  You might expect that I’d be bored of it by now, but I’ve loved this casting from the moment it came out in 2015, and I continue to love it today.  Sure, it’s not a perfect casting.  It lacks side mirrors and the windows are a bit squished, but it just looks so mean that I don’t care about its flaws! 

This is the third time we’ve seen the Huracan in green.  The first was a mainline in Verde Mantis, and the second was a premium version in Verde Ithaca.  Those are both far more iconic Lamborghini colors than this Verde Selvans version – a paint color I’d never even heard of before looking it up on this model.  It’s clear they’re beginning to run low on color options for this casting, but this new green is dark enough to differentiate itself from the prior versions. 

As with the rest of the mainline Huracans, this one has no detailing on the brake lights, but does feature printed detailing on the exhaust tips and license plate.  Regular readers will be familiar with my love of both printed plates and exhausts, but including them at the expense of brake lights is a spectacularly weird decision, even to me.  Happily, it does feature headlights and a Lamborghini logo on the hood, alongside a black roof (a first for this casting).

Perhaps the only casting that can match the Huracan for sheer volume of releases is the 2017 Ford GT.  This is also its eighteenth version, not including the super treasure hunt.  Surprisingly, it’s actually the first time we’ve seen it in purple, and I think it looks great on this model!  It has a lovely metal flake finish and silver stripes that contrast well with the purple paint.  I’ve always appreciated how detailed the headlight prints are on the Ford GT, so I’m glad to see them return.  

I’m a bit confused by the addition of the #2 roundel on the sides, though.  With such a limited budget for printed detailing on mainline models, why bother adding side prints?  Especially when, to my eyes, they make the car look worse!  This Ford GT spec is almost certainly based on the one that was originally ordered by Graham Rahal, which doesn’t even have the roundel in the first place!  I’m not usually one to modify my diecast cars, but this design choice bothers me so much that I may actually remove them. 

It’s not just the look that bothers me, though.  In the world of mainline models, there’s a strict budget to adhere to.  If there was room in the budget to add printing, why on Earth wouldn’t Hot Wheels have used it to add brake lights to either the SF90 or the Huracan – or this Ford GT for that matter?  Still, questionable budgetary decisions aside, it makes a lovely addition to my Ford GT collection, bringing it one step closer to completing the rainbow. 

I really like this Lotus Evija casting, and it looks absolutely gorgeous in this deep blue paint.  I’ve always admired the clever construction of this casting, with the interior section being used as a color break for the vents in the hood, sides, and back of the model.  As a result, the Evija feels far more detailed than a typical mainline, and we’ve seen Hot Wheels use a similar design on many of their newer supercar castings. 

The Lotus Evija has always been a car that looks the best from the back, thanks to its absolutely wild air channels and the thin LED brake lights that surround them.  Considering the constraints of a $1 model, Hot Wheels did an impressive job of replicating that design, and the brake lights really pop against a dark paint color like this blue.  The Lotus badge is raised just enough to not get perfect paint coverage, which always makes it look silver.  I don’t know whether that was an intentional part of this casting’s design or just a happy accident, but it’s definitely a cool effect!

However, I hate the TRAP5 wheels that this casting always seems to get stuck with.  With the exception of the super treasure hunt, every release of the Evija has sported these ugly pizza wheels, and I think this casting deserves better.  Frankly, the TRAP5’s don’t look good on anything, and Hot Wheels should probably just retire this wheel design. 

That brings us to the weakest link in this admittedly excellent set: the Aston Martin Vulcan.  I know this car has its fans, but I always find it hard to care about any track-only car, especially one as rare and expensive as the Vulcan.  Still, this black version with highlighter yellow accents is one of the cooler designs I’ve seen on this casting, and it’s still a damn sight better than the generic models that usually tarnish these exotic five packs. 

Despite my minor complaints about some of the models, this is without a doubt the best five pack in the last several years, and I’m glad to see it!  All that remains now is to see whether next year’s rumored Ferrari five pack will be able to overshadow this excellent Motor Show pack.  Keep an eye on my socials, because I will be taking a look at that Ferrari pack as soon as I get it (and trust me, you will find it at retail.  Eventually).