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Hot Wheels® Legends Tour Winner Announced During Finale Event at Jay Leno’s Garage: Custom Car Joins Hot Wheels® Collection as 1:64-scale Die-Cast Vehicle
The 1970 Pontiac Trans Am is named the winner of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, the world’s largest international traveling car show The global search for the
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\nThe 1970 Pontiac Trans Am is named the winner of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, the world’s largest international traveling car show\n\n\nThe global search for the next Hot Wheels die-cast culminated at the iconic Jay Leno’s Garage after a historic series of virtual car shows\n\n\n EL SEGUNDO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nMattel (NASDAQ: MAT) announced today the winner of the 2020 Hot Wheels Legends Tour. The 1970 Pontiac Trans Am custom car, built by Riley Stair of Sacramento, will be inducted into the Hot Wheels Garage of Legends and will join the Hot Wheels collection as a 1:64 scale die-cast. The 1970 Pontiac Trans Am is the third fan’s car to become a Hot Wheels die-cast and will hit store shelves worldwide in 2021. The announcement was made during the Hot Wheels Legends Tour Finale event by Ted Wu, Vice President of Global Design for Vehicles at Mattel.\nThis press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201114005121/en/The 1970 Pontiac Trans Am is named the winner of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, the world's largest international traveling car show (Photo: Business Wire)\nThe final stop was live-streamed from Jay Leno’s Garage and co-hosted by Jay Leno and motorsports ambassador Jarod DeAnda. Viewers tuned into Jay Leno’s Garage YouTube Page and Hot Wheels’ Facebook Page to see the winner determined by Hot Wheels designers and car-loving celebrity judges Jay Leno, Snoop Dogg, Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias and Brionna Lynch. Special guests including 007 driver Ben Collins, Paxton Booth and NASCAR driver Tony Stewart also participated in the event.\n\nRiley Stair’s build was chosen from thousands of cars entered in the Hot Wheels Legends Tour, which had 14 stops throughout Europe, LATAM, Asia and North America. While all finalists who competed at the global finale event embodied Hot Wheels high standards or performance and design, the winning custom build was selected for its true representation of the Hot Wheels garage spirit.\n\n“By going virtual, the third year of the Hot Wheels Legends Tour demonstrated tremendous growth, engaging over 10 million fans from around the world,” said Ted Wu, Vice President, Global Head of Design for Vehicles, Mattel. “With more vehicle entries this year than ever before, we know we found a special build that embodies the Hot Wheels challe...