QUESTION Who invented Scalextric? Was it the first electric race car set? In 1912, New York toymaker Lionel Co. launched the first electric slot car racing set, featuring heavy tinplate cars ...

Is it a thing of beauty or a ridiculous relic? Karl Quinn just can’t decide, but he knows that slot-car racing set is just ...

For this year the Scalextric ... £50-odd a car. How about a pair of Spa 24-hour winning BMWs, an E36 and E30 complete with ‘race-weathered liveries’? Or a Colin McRae triple set, with Metro ...

It'll essentially amount to a full-scale Scalextric ... car to be remotely operated from the sky. In the three-minute long film, viewers get to see the track being prepared at night, set for race ...