(CNN) — Matchbox, maker of tiny toy cars, is bringing back one if its most important models. It’s not a car, but a little horse-drawn coach, and its success led to the creation of Matchbox toy cars.

You can thank Queen Elizabeth II for the birth of one of your favorite all-time toys. Back in 1953, the British toy company Lesney Products unveiled a miniature model of Her Majesty's coronation coach ...

Model cars accompanied real cars early on in the history of automobiles. Released as children’s toys, they soon became the focus of collectors of all ages. Car enthusiasts love seeing the real thing ...

Golden anniversaries are a wonderful thing. Sometimes they sneak up on us. Sometimes they make us think, "Can it really be that so many years have passed?" Matchbox is 50 years old. Well, at least in ...

The latest exhibit at the Antique Automobile Club of America Museum in Hershey is a pretty big deal, even though the cars are pretty small. Hundreds of tiny Matchbox vehicles will be exhibited in the ...

The world's most hotly sought after Matchbox car achieved a record-breaking price at auction recently. The Matchbox Quarry Truck, quoted by experts as the rarest and most valuable Matchbox toy ever ...

We want to hear about what you collect and why. Email Cindy Hval at [email protected] or call Kimberly Lusk at (509) 459-5457. A tiny red Rolls-Royce launched a collection that eventually spawned a ...

A toy collector is celebrating after the first batch of his huge collection of 1,800 Matchbox cars sold for £281,000. Graham Hamilton, 54, fell in love with the miniature toys as a child and began ...

Mattel Films and Skydance have closed a deal to hire “Extraction” director Sam Hargrave for their upcoming “Matchbox” movie, based on the world of die-cast toy cars. David Coggeshall and Jonathan ...

• Matchbox cars allow petrolheads to own their dream car for a fraction of the price. • Almost 70-years since their inception, Matchbox continues to produce high-quality model cars. • Matchbox has ...

Leslie Smith, co-founder of the company that made Britain’s beloved Matchbox toy cars, which are still on the market and have become prized collectibles, has died. He was 87. Smith died of cancer May ...