Specialty: Powered by plutonium or a bolt of lighting and crafted from the DeLorean DMC-12, the stainless-steel body helps allow the flux capacitor to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity required for smooth passage through the space-time continuum. The ’48 Ford casting itself is quite the gem, but sadly barely used. This tool of the Deluxe model of the car has been used 3 times for retail, twice for the BTTF release and once in yellow for a Karate Kid homage. There’s a more hot rod tool of it, where the trunk lid is plain and the front grill and bumper are different, that has unfortunately only seen one release for the movie Grease. The downer of this release compared to the original is the deco is much more crude than before. Is it me, or is Hot Wheels the only diecast company that would be daring enough to make this? Seriously. Matchbox? No way. M2? Not a chance. Auto World? Hell no. Mini GT and similar? I’d doubt they’d do this era of car let alone like this. Greenlight, maybe Johnny Lightning, are the only brands I could maybe see do this, and that’s a big maybe. But Hot Wheels? Sure, let’s throw a pile of crap on it! Specialty: This hover version of the Time Machine has the same stainless-steel body and flux capacitor as its predecessor. Using Mr. Fusion, it can generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity required for smooth passage through the space-time continuum.

The casting was retooled for 2022, with the rear taillamp section being made part of the interior, some portions of the rear being made part of the base, some parts of the vents and the reactor being made part of the body and the reactor getting additional detail. Any form of base texturing was also removed.