Ferrero

The 'Ferrero' models, made for the Austrian chocolate manufacturer Ferrero, and hidden inside the well-known 'Kindersurprise' chocolate eggs, are actually made by various manufacturers. Most of the times it is not even known who the actual manufacturer of the models is, so we decided to list them under 'Ferrero' because that is how most people will know the models anyway. That being said, most of the models aren't even real 87th scale cars.....

There were several series of models (or toys, whatever you want to call them), one of the most (in)famous being the series of copied Wiking models. Apart from this series of copies, there were several series of cars for which Ferrero had their own models developed.

In the early 1980s, Ferrero decided that the next series of give-aways hidden in their chocolate eggs would be little toy cars. Besides using their own newly developed models, Ferrero also used copies of Wiking models, scaled down to approximately 1/120 so they would fit inside the chocolate eggs. It is not clear where these copied models originate from, although the forklift (which is a copy of Wiking model 1170) has 'made in Hongkong' on it.

Ref#	Model	Known colours	Wiking #
?	Jeep	green	10
?	Jaguar E-type	red	22
?	VW Beetle convertible	white / yellow / orange	33
?	VW 181 (the thing)	green	40
?	VW Passat	orange	48
?	Landrover	green with grey top	100
?	VW Variant polizei	green	104
?	Audi 100	redbrown	120
?	NSU Ro 80	redbrown	128
?	Mercedes 350SL	grey	140
?	Mercedes 250SL	yellow	142
?	Mercedes 200 taxi	yellow	149
?	Mercedes 450SE	green	151
?	Mercedes 280SE convertible	white / yellow / orange	153
?	Porsche 911	red	160
?	Porsche Carrera	white	163
?	Citroën DS	red	190
?	Mercedes C111	orange	230
?	Mercedes Unimog 406	green	370
?	Mercedes Unimog 411	off-white	371
?	MB Trac 700	off-white	385
?	Mercedes 200 ambulance	red	706
?	Roadroller	orange	650
?	'Autoschutter'	orange	657
?	Platform cars	yellow	1160
?	Forklift	yellow	1170
?	BMW 328	white	828
?	Mercedes 260D	darkblue	832
?	Mercedes 540K	red	835

During the time the copied models were available, which was only for about six months, the following models were also available. These were originals, no Wiking copies.

Ref#	Model	Known colours
?	London Bus	red
?	Ferrari F1	white / red / orange
?	McLaren F1	white / red / orange
?	Porsche F1	white / red / orange
?	Benz 1911 'Blitzen-Benz'	silver / red
?	Benz 1923 'Targa Florio'	silver / red
?	Mercedes Unimog	red

As mentioned above, the models have only been available for about six months, so if you're thinking of starting to collect these, please take in to account that there are not that many models around..... (Only every seventh egg had a Wiking copy !)

Models 'compatible' to 1/87 scale:

Alfa-Romeo Ricotto streamline (1/102 scale, pic. below)

Citroën DS Taxi

Mercedes 220 Taxi (pic. below)

Austin FX4 London Taxi (pic. below)

Checker Taxi (pic. below)

Porsche 935 (pic. below)

Ferrari F40 (pic. below)

Landrover 110

1953 Buick Skylark convertible

1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible

1955 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible coupe

1957 Continental Mk.II 2-door coupe

1956 Chevrolet Corvette convertible

1958 Edsel Pacer convertible

1956 Ford Thunderbird hardtop

1956 Chrysler Imperial 4-door sedan

1956 Packard Executive 4-door sedan

1953 Studebaker Commander Regal Starliner coupe hardtop


Porsche 935	Mercedes 220	Austin FX4	Checker Cab	Ferrari F40