Cars Piston Cup Track Set

by Mattel

Product Features

• This coliseum-style raceway track set delivers high speed racing and recreates the final scene of the
• Disney/Pixar movie Cars
• The dual-lane oval track
• More than twelve feet of track
• Motorized power booster and two kid-activated lane changers to avoid the pop-up crash car

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 15 x 23.9 inches ; 4.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B000BDAZ38
• Item model number: H6425
• Manufacturer recommended age: 5 - 10 years
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,456 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The ultimate championship race comes downs to Lightning McQueen, the King and Chick Murphy tearing up the track as they race hood-to-hood to claim the Piston Cup. This coliseum-style raceway track set delivers high speed racing, bringing the final scene of the upcoming Disney/Pixar movie, Cars to life. The dual-lane oval track has side by side racing, over twelve feet of track, motorized power booster and two kid-activated lane changers to avoid the pop-up crash car, and beat your opponent! Requires three "D" batteries, not included. Additional vehicles sold separately

Product Description

The ultimate championship race comes downs to Lightning McQueen, the King and Chick Murphy tearing up the track as they race hood-to-hood to claim the Piston Cup. This coliseum-style raceway track set delivers high speed racing, bringing the final scene of the Disney/Pixar movie, CARS to life. The dual-lane oval track has side-by-side racing, over 12' of track, motorized power booster and two kid-activated lane changers to avoid the pop-up crash car, and beat your opponent! Requires 3 "D" batteries (not included). Additional vehicles sold separately.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great item for your little cars fan!, July 1, 2006

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RPrice (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cars Piston Cup Track Set (Toy)

This is a great toy! My 4 year old cars fanatic loves it! This is made specifically for the die-cast cars that most of us have already purchased! At first I was a bit skeptical because of the price (especially what it's selling for on ebay)and because I was unsure it would actually do what it says. But.... it does! The booster actually moves the cars swiftly around the track. My son lines them up and lets them continuously push each other through the booster. It also has a place where the crew chief sits, a winner's circle stage and a small section where you can sit some car fans. In addition, there is a pop-up car that your child can avoid with the lane changer. My son hasn't quite mastered this yet because the cars move so fastly through the booster so we usually use the lock button to keep it from popping out. The only thing that I can really find wrong with it is that it does use batteries fast(so stock up)and although durable enough it could have be made more so by making less sections that need to be put together. It is not a toy (if you have young ones) that you will want to be taking down and putting up every day, so if you have room to keep up like we do it's great! It's not overly large, but does take up decent space in the corner of our room. All in all my son and... daugter(7) are having a grand time with it and it will definitely please your cars fan! I hope this helps someone because I could not find any real reviews out there on this toy when we were purchasing and I am so glad that we bought it anyway!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Defective Gears, December 27, 2006

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Laurie A. Paz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cars Piston Cup Track Set (Toy)

We had the same experience. The motor drive quit working after a couple of cars went through. As an engineer, I wanted to see if it was easy to fix it for my 6 and 4 year old grandsons. I took the screws off the bottom of the drive unit and found that the motor was working but that the large drive gear on the motor side had come un-snapped from the rubber drive wheel. After putting it back together and having the same problem I noticed that the four posts on the rubber drive roller that go up into the large gear will just come out of the slots in the gear because the slots in the gear are oversized. I put small wood wedges in the slots to hold the posts in place and then put "Gorilla Glue" on each one to hold the posts in place on the gear. It has held up through 3 days of hard use. The posts on the opposite gear had been glued to the gear at the factory--and the slots are just big enough to snap over the posts without the posts coming off. This is not something that anyone should have to do but it beats no track or the hassle of a return.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Race Track, November 16, 2006

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Jonna "jc1710" (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cars Piston Cup Track Set (Toy)

We have several race tracks, and this is our favorite. It's durable, fun, and fast! And keeps my 5 year old entranced for long periods of time. You can buy other die-cast Cars cars through Amazon, and they work great (Sally, Nitroade, Sheriff, etc). The space in the middle of the track is large enough that my son can lie in the center while the cars race around him. I highly recommend it. It's sure cheaper on Amazon than at Toys R Us, where I bought ours!