who made these?

Greenlight made the IndyCars up until 2008. Hotwheels took over in 2009, and made them through 2011. The 2011 Dan Wheldon special edition Indianapolis 500 winner was made by Greenlight, who took over in 2012.

ok Maybe thats why I has one Indy car by HW

This group features the last year of Greenlight's first period of manufacturing IndyCars (2008). Hotwheels made the 2009, 2010, and all 2011 cars (except the special edition Dan Wheldon Indianapolis 500 winner). Greenlight then took over again in 2012.

Nice collection! Greenlight makes the best, I think.

I collect the bigger 1:18's, myself. They're more expensive (60 bucks each, now), but ... they're quite awesome! Especially the mold they have of the current Dallara (which I like more than the old one, in terms of racing ability and appearance).

Last year, I got 1:18's of Power, Briscoe, Kimball, Rahal, and Carpenter.

This year, I'm aiming to get RHR, Hinch, and Tags ...

Do they have 1:64 of RHR and Tags?

Personally, I think Hotwheels did a better job with the lat generation of Dallaras. the Greenlight versions broke too easily and looked boxier. The HW versions looked more authentic. However, Greenlight has seriously outdone themselves with the DW12s.

Well, I only like the big cars. I used to collect the small ones, but ... past five years or so, exclusively the 1:18's. I love the size for display and detail.

The Tags 1:18 will be a limited edition of 200 (and only in 1:18), but they'll definitely have a 1:64 of RHR. They start getting them in around Indy and through June/July. I normally get a few on Race Day, and then have to lug the things ...

why only in 1:18?

Yeah, I love the detail of the 1:18s, but they're so expensive.

I'm betting Greenlight requires a pre-order of so many cars before they'll produce one. And most of the teams end up buying, I presume, a large block of the cars to give to corporate sponsors as 'thank you's' or to give away to fans or to sell in their trailers. (This is the only reason I can think of that a Briscoe Hitachi car got made for Christmas ... he won in that car at Sonoma. He's my favorite driver, and I was dying for a diecast of his car in the current form, so I didn't complain. But he was already gone from the team by then.) The rest go to the Speedway gift shop and online retailers. At least, that's been my assumption ... a driver like Tags isn't popular enough to mass produce a diecast for, but Tomotorsports.com (an online diecast shop) teamed with Tags to get one made, and it's the 1:18 ... it's more expensive, but I think the hard-core collectors prefer that size.

I'm not hard-core in that ... I take all mine out of the box and leave them in the open. They are expensive. I don't want to know how much I've spent on all my stuff (too much! must be why I'm poor), but ... yeah ... something like that, I think.

Tags is more popular than Charlie Kimball, but Kimball has a 1:64 car.

I think that had more to do with his sponsor. The sponsor probably wanted them made, so they pre-ordered so many to give to their employees, sponsor affiliates, whatever ... as sponsor activation or something. Also, Ganassi has a bigger presence, souvenir-wise, at tracks. They have their own trailer at a lot of events, and they need things to sell. I see a lot of Kimball jerseys at races, actually ...

I got the Kimball 1:18 at the Milwaukee race. He beetle-bombed there. He did well at Toronto (2nd), so he has promise. He has a good story/sponsor, though, so he should be around for a while.

You're right about that.