New May 2025 releases from Oxford Diecast

SS Jaguar 2.5 Litre Saloon – Suede Green (pictured above)

The new SS Jaguar 2.5 Litre saloon glides into the Oxford Diecast range, making its first appearance in N gauge.

The SS Jaguar made its real-life debut as far back as 1935 in the elegant surroundings of the Mayfair Hotel in London, when William Lyons unveiled the first car to carry the Jaguar name. It was also available at a low cost of £395 to the Jaguar followers of the day.

The deep green SS Jaguar is complemented with lighter green interior moulding, including the seats, door panels, floor and carpets. The steering wheel is black. The green exterior paintwork is complemented with a black roof panel and chrome to bumpers, radiator grille and window frames. The large headlamps are also chrome. Registered GKJ 496, the detailing of this model includes wheels with chrome centres and a silver strip running along the side of the body beneath the windows.

Price: £7.45

Bond Bug

Oxford Diecast is releasing a second 1970 Bond Bug in pristine white with black masking, in sharp contrast to the bright orange 1:76 scale car that launched the series.

The wedge-shaped three-wheeler with its characteristic frog-eye headlights is enhanced with silver wheels and windscreen wipers; the BUG name is printed vertically on both sides of the car above the wheel arch, again in red on black across the rear and vertically down the front of the channelled bonnet.

It is registered AME 193H from the first half of 1970 and is based on the Bond Bug 700ES, which offered more ergonomic seats a well as more padding over the engine cowl, twin mud flaps, an ashtray and rubber front bumper and a spare wheel. This quirky car only lasted in production until 1974, with a mere 2270 being made - all orange with black masking, except for six white models specially made for Rothmans, the tobacco company and a couple in lime green for Roses Lime cordial.

Price: £9.95

VW T1 Split Screen Samba Bus

This shade of red was popular as one of the standard two-tone colour schemes of the original VW Samba bus and here it is again, teamed up with a rich brown for the latest 1:76 scale release in the series.

The roof on this release appears with the extra windows rather than the lift-up roof. It also has a canvas sunroof and additional side windows. This model also features the very early split windscreen or ‘Splittie’, introduced in 1950, but discontinued in 1967. The interior seating/floor and steering wheel are reproduced in a pale beige colour scheme with a contrasting red dashboard, mirroring the external body colour.

Price: £9.95

AEC Ergomatic 6-wheel Tipper - Hall Aggregates

The Oxford Construction-related model series continues with the well-known and colourful Hall Aggregates livery on the AEC Ergomatic 6-wheel tipper truck in 1:76 scale. The flat-fronted poppy red cab features the distinctive AEC inverted blue triangle badge on the front of the radiator. At the same time, a yellow number 5546 is printed within a yellow on red diamond shape on the cab doors. The Hall Aggregates name, with their Thames Valley base, is also printed in yellow above the cab windscreen.

Price: £16.95

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