Another year of target reds

Target red editions have been a very popular line, exclusive to Target Stores in the United States. In 2023, the run has entered its 7th year of exclusives. While the run took off pretty well with distribution being uniform, making it easy for collectors across the States to get to them, ever since Covid hit the supply chain, in the past couple of years, distribution has been pretty poor. 

Collectors are often depending on their out of state friends or secondary markets like eBay. And the secondary market prices of these exclusives have also gone up recently.

Fun facts:

Name of the series: Red Editions (Red being a flagship color of the Target chain of stores)

Castings per year: 12

Year started: 2017

Exclusive to: Target

Color Theme: They are generally repeat castings of the mainlines for that year but come in red, black and white color tone variations of the mainlines with some red edition specific decals like RED or RED5 (2021 celebrating the 5th year of target reds)



This is my set containing all the castings from 2022.


Here's a list for your quick reference

  1. 73 BMW 3.0 CSL Race Car
  2. Volkswagen Beetle
  3. 76 Greenwood Corvette
  4. 56 Ford F-100
  5. 83 Chevy Silverado
  6. 99 Honda Civic Type R(EK9)
  7. Subaru WRX STI
  8. Automobili Pininfarina Battista
  9. Porsche 935
  10. 18 Camaro SS
  11. 65 Mustang 2+2 Fastback
  12. 18 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon

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