If you're buying toy model cars for the car loving tyke in your family, let us make a humble recommendation: Go with diecast car models.

Simply put, they just plain last longer. They're more durable, and the dog won't want to chew on it!

How many times have you bought plastic toy cars for your kid, and the darn things are broken less than a week after Christmas? Even one time is too often. The plastic they use to make toy cars tends to be kind of cheap and brittle, easily broken.

The thing is, plastic is cheaper and easier when it comes to mass production, so more and more, it's becoming the choice material to create toy model cars with. Unfortunately, they don't last as long, they're not quite as fun to play with, they don't look as good... but, the bottom dollar is preserved. Plastic toy cars are more profitable to produce.

If you were a gearhead as a kid, you probably still have some of your die cast model cars from your childhood. Maybe you've passed them on to your own kids, or even your grandkids. How many plastic toy cars get passed on from generation to generation? Not many.