Our Fast Women have been getting lots of great press lately. Read on to learn what's being said about these fabulous new girls.

Newsweek Magazine, March 2005:

"Drew Heitner has a simple mantra on cars and the opposite sex: "Women judge their men by the cars they drive. Men judge their cars by the women they attract." That's apparently true even when those cars happen to be ... toys.

Heitner, president of M&D International, has been responsible for distributing some of the biggest names in collectible scale cars. Now he's set to introduce some entirely different hood ornaments. The company's Fast Women line of 1:18 scale painted-resin female models is meant to be displayed with its popular die-cast automobiles, just like the real women in those racy auto calendars or car shows.

Heitner says he introduced them to America because he thought there was a hole in the marketplace that the scantily clad figurines could fill. "These are aimed at the hip-hop and tuner culture of fast, tricked-out cars with big speakers and lots of after-market products," says Heitner. Already, these female accessories are creating a buzz with retailers. The first line, which is set to arrive in stores next month, includes five figures with names like Candy and Mitzi, clad in different skimpy outfits. (More dolls in 10 new poses will be released this summer.) M&D plans to provide smaller-scale figures for the 1:24 and 1:43 scale collectible cars as well. Eventually, there will also be accessory girls clad in era-appropriate clothes and hairstyles so that cars can be matched with women. There's even talk of introducing figures with no clothes at all. They'll be sold unpainted, so it will be up to individual collectors to decide how to dress them for their debut on the hot rods' hoods. Gentlemen, does that start your engines?"

-Peter Suciu
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.

 

Toy Cars & Models Magazine, January 2005:

"I don't think that Louisa May Alcott had these girls in mind when she penned Little Women, but the figures I saw hanging around some of the better die-casts at iHobby in Chicago were causing show goers to stop and stare. They're called Fast Women, and they should be on the market soon in several different poses and colors.

With come-hither stares straight out of every red-blooded boy's dream calendar, the bottom line is that these tastefully, if scantily, clothed babes really look like little ladies, with gorgeous faces, realistic proportions (gulp!) and hands and postures geared to fit your luckier 1:18 cars. Depending on the model, they come attached to a clear stand or in poses meant to perch on the car itself - ideas that add realism.

It's a natural that these diminutive damsels will do much to, shall we say, augment any die-cast collection. Though these are early hand-painted samples, M&D Distribution, which is developing the mini mademoiselles, announced the girls will soon be available in 1:24, 1:18 and even 1:12. No word in final pricing, but the guess is that they'll be reasonably affordable - even impulse buys - once they hit the shelves. Be still my heart."

- Joe Kelly Jr.

 

Hobby Merchandizer Magazine, December 2004:

"Just the thing to go with some of the newly released car models are Fast Women from M&D International and the World of Die Cast. The factory-painted resin girls are available in scales ranging from 1/24 to 1/8. Each different girl will be available in era-appropriate clothing and hairstyles for a variety of popular automotive modeling and miniatures. Present plans call for six poses per decade, six cool dresses and three ethnicities."

- Tom Grossman