As a tradition, also collectors of model cars get their money's worth at TECHNO-CLASSICA. They enjoy the show in Essen.

Showing their colours, this almost is a matter of course for Schuco at TECHNO-CLASSICA 2012, since this toy brand itself will be a classic in this year, celebrating its 100th birthday. An exhibition stand at TECHNO-CLASSICA has already become an integral part of in-house tradition for the toy legend from Franconia. Also on ex-hibit: appropriate special models from the developers from Fürth in Essen. In this year, the makers of Schuco have tailored a special model from their piccolo series. It is a Porsche 936-77 with the decoration from "Martini-Racing", which is limited to only 1,000 examples. Furthermore, the company from Franconia shows their novelties for their anniversary year for the first time after the Nuremberg Toy Fair. This includes a new edition of the legendary Rollfix. The wonderfully shaped tin two-seater looks like the spitting image of the Mercedes-Benz 220 S and in the inside, a steel rope with a length of 50 centimetres provides for lots of power in an inertia type drive. The sec-ond top innovation from Schuco is the NSU Quickly, the mother of all mopeds as a 1:10 scale model.

However, not only Schuco presents automobile dreams in a small scale in Essen. Also CMC from the town of Ostfildern here presents their superb 1:18 miniatures in-cluding the probably most spectacular innovation, the Bartoletti-Ferrari-race trans-porter from the 1950s. The matching 1:18 model from the Chinese is assembled of more than 3,000 individual parts in a quality and precision previously known from watchmakers only. The second top classic car from CMC as a 1:18 model is the leg-endary Ferrari California Spider.

Fans of model cars can go on a discovery tour in almost every exhibition hall in Es-sen. Particularly the German manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Volkswagen will make a point of offering special models this year on the occasion of TECHNO-CLASSICA - this is a certainty. Since one thing is clear: model cars also are optimal ambassadors of a brand, in particular if it is a matter of their own history and classic cars. Furthermore, the show in Essen also attracts an un-foreseen variety of model car dealers, presenting their comprehensive range of prod-ucts. Also the stars of the Nuremberg fair are among them. Even specialists with a desire for antiquarian goods can find interesting model cars in Essen. Thus, the world of the classic and young classic cars is of special attraction also as miniatures.