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  • WHERE PREMIUM QUALITY MEETS EXTREME VALUE: SPARK MODELS

    When I launched Model Citizen in  2014, one of the overarching principles that would guide the business is that we would only stock model cars of superior quality...no junk allowed. Among the first manufacturers we considered was Spark, a leading producer of resin-bodied 1:18- and 1:43-scale car... View Post
  • I went to college in the mid-1990s in a small town in Arkansas, where the most exotic car one might expect to see was an IROC-Z, or maybe my roommate's Jetta. As a committed car freak with a taste for high-end sporting machinery, there wasn't much driving around town to stoke the fires of my pas... View Post
  • THE TOP FIVE NEW MODEL RELEASES OF 2015

    When we launched Model Citizen last September, 2015 was already on its way to being the year that plastic broke. We saw the launch of AUTOart's controversial line of composite-bodied model cars, as well as a steady stream of resin models from Spark and TSM. The predicted death of die-cast metal, ... View Post