In a new NBC prime-time show, teams will compete to build the best full-size car resembling a Hot Wheels model. The winning concept will be made into an actual Hot Wheels car. The show will air on NBC on Tuesday, May 30, at 10 p.m. ET, and Peacock will have it the next day. There will be a lot of crazy ideas in the works, and host Rutledge Wood and the guest artists will decide which ones are best. Automobilia fans who like weird and crazy things have much to be happy about. If you’ve been sad that your Mitsubishi Mirage doesn’t have a fish tank or that your Ferrari 308 would be better if it could cook pasta, we have great news for you. A brand-new show is coming out soon. It will have more game-show elements and rewards but still have the same love of absurdity and clever lies as old faves like Pimp My Ride and Monster Garage. A new show called Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge will start on NBC during prime time. It has funny storylines, exciting grinding, and real car-lover feelings. The primary host is Rutledge Wood, who has worked on Top Gear US, Floor Is Lava, and as a reporter for NBC NASCAR. A judge group and well-known guests join him. After the competition, the winning car will be modified to look like a die-cast Hot Wheels car. Contestants can turn a real car into a full-size Hot Wheels car resembling a cartoon. The audience will see how each crazy ride was designed, made, and displayed. Wood is joined by Ford designer Dalal Elsheikh and Hoonigan driver Hertrech “Hert” Eugene Jr. As surprise guests, actor Terry Crews and comic Jay Leno have been on the show. We talked to Wood and Elsheikh about the show, their dream cars, and what they thought was most impressive about how the first season’s set was built. Wood cried when he thought about his first car, a Volkswagen Rabbit pickup from 1981. My goal has always been to think of something really cool that we could do with that. A brand-new engine or a pair of wheels imported from Europe. That didn’t happen at all. But it still gives me bad dreams. So, at this event, we give people a chance to make peace with a car from their past and change it in the way they’ve always wanted. In one show, for example, he fixes up a 1970 black Charger, his first car, and now he can hook up the Hemi and make it do wheelies. The experience of youth can be recalled. Check out the work of the fabricators In each show, two teams build on opposite sides of the Hot Wheels garage set, which looks like a mix of a toy box and the inside of a pinball machine from the previews. Participants get skilled help from welders, fiberglass artists, and painters to make their monster trucks and wheelies come to life. Wood says the teams must consider turns, obstacles, and interruptions before being graded at each show’s end. Wood says that it’s not easy at all. When you look at these seemingly insignificant details, you could think to yourself, “Wow, the decision to let a car into the finals or not may come down to something as simple as whether or not they took the time to tuck the bumpers?” Have they given any thought to how the form of the body might alter if the roof were removed? What if they say that they will make it appear as though a monster has come to life, but nothing actually occurs? Because so many people have put their hearts and souls into this, picking a winner is much more complicated than I thought. A skate park with Cadillacs and fire cars all around it? Elsheikh was moved to learn how to make things after seeing how the professional fabricators worked with the candidates. On the show, there is an inner guy named Slick, and boy, does he live up to his name. Many of our fantastic employees are skilled welders. Wood and Elsheikh couldn’t say much about the cars we’d see on the show because they didn’t want to ruin the surprise. But we might see fire trucks, Cadillac skate parks, and maybe even a car resembling a piano. The toy car brand Hot Wheels is doing a lot to introduce new people to the pastime and way of life that many of us take pleasure in. On May 30 at 10 p.m. ET, NBC will show the first episode of Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge. The next day, Peacock will show the next episode.
