Earlier this week we brought you amazing photos of a Hot Wheel car Mattel valued ... wondered how a $1 toy could possibly be worth more than their entire collections of late-80s Buicks and/or ...

But the company can hold that line, in part, because of volume: Mattel makes — and sells — 22.5 Hot Wheels toys per second, Stanichi said. That’s about 709 million cars a year. Mattel ...

Elliot Handler, his wife Ruth, and Harold Matson co-founded Mattel in 1945. Ruth Handler invented the wildly successful Barbie doll in 1959. Elliot Handler decided to enter the toy car market in 1966.

But the company can hold that line, in part, because of volume: Mattel makes – and sells – 22.5 Hot Wheels toys per second, Stanichi said. That’s about 709 million cars a year. Mattel ...