And I finally got a SCX Compact F1 set. Everything is good quality inside. The cars are wonderful, small because of its scale but highly detailed. The only problem I found is that the front wheels do not touch the track, maybe because of the brushes, and of its small weight. The same happen to the Nascar cars, but when you try them, you forget about the problem. They go incredibly better than the Artin cars and much better than the Carrera GO I have. I cannot talk about Jiada because I have not tried one yet, but I would like to try and compare. The decoration in the cars is also much better than the one in Artin or Carrera GO. And the power is much better, 12V, than the Artin one, 7.5V. So cars run better and smoother. And the tracks, the difference is so huge that I don´t recommend what I told in a previous post, to have and Artin track, cheaper. Once you have tried these tracks, you don´t go back to the
others. SCX Compact tracks fit better, electricity is not lost and the cars have a better grip. So, what I recommend now is ... go and get your SCX Compact set, you will be delighted...
In 1962, the English company Lines Bros Ltd, owner of the trademark Scalextric , signed a contract with the Spanish company Exin . This Spanish company would sell the Scalextric products in Spain and Portugal, manufacturing everything but the cars in Spain. After some time, even the cars would be done in Spain. Exin created soon their own line of models, being the first one the famous Seat 600 in 1966. In 1971 Lines Bros Ltd, as a result of its financial problems, sold the Scalextric line of products to Dunbee , Combex and Marx. Exin went on being a subsidiary of Scalextric and selling their products in Spain. And they got more independence from the mother company. At this time Scalextric decided to sell more quantity with less quality and Exin decided the opposite. These were the golden years of Spanish Scalextric . Every child in Spain wished to have one…In 1980 Scalextric was sold again, this time to Hornby Hobbies. It seemed Exin would have no financial problems, they e...
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