Orange Track Diecast's continuously updated Red Line Club sale tracker, last modified July 17, 2026, confirms the next RLC sale date on the calendar: a '85 Audi Sport Quattro S1 in blue Spectraflame, going on sale July 28, 2026. Beyond that date, the tracker lists a run of releases under its own "Tentative Dates" heading for Fall 2026, including a long-rumored '21 Ford Bronco with a chase variant, a Nissan Skyline GT-R (BNR32), and a '22 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Code Red.
It's worth being precise about that distinction, since it's easy to see a car listed under "Fall 2026" somewhere online and assume it's locked in. Orange Track Diecast's own site explicitly separates confirmed sale dates from a tentative list and notes that all dates are subject to change, which is exactly the kind of caveat worth passing along rather than smoothing over.
The nearest RLC release isn't a fall car at all. Mattel Creations' own product listing for the '85 Audi Sport Quattro S1 (model HWF08) confirms real specs collectors can plan around:
Orange Track Diecast's tracker lines up this listing with a confirmed July 28, 2026 sale date, making it the most immediately actionable release covered here, well ahead of anything on the tentative fall slate.
Three cars sit on Orange Track Diecast's tentative list for Red Line Club releases this fall:
None of these three have a locked sale date, price, or confirmed packaging detail yet. They're grouped separately from the site's dated sale calendar precisely because they haven't moved into confirmed status the way the Audi Quattro S1 has.
The same tentative list also includes three Elite 64 castings pointed at a fall window: a Mazda RX-7 in Liberty Walk widebody trim, a Mercedes-Benz G 63 AMG 6x6, and a Pandem-kitted Datsun 280ZX. Elite 64 releases run through Mattel Creations rather than the RLC membership program specifically, but they're tracked on the same fall calendar and carry the same tentative-until-confirmed caveat.
RLC releases move through a fairly predictable pipeline: castings get previewed, then a firm sale date and price post to Mattel Creations, then the sale actually opens. The Audi Quattro S1 is all the way through that pipeline with a dated sale on the calendar. The Bronco, Skyline, and Shelby GT500 are still earlier in that process, which is exactly why a tracker built specifically to separate confirmed from tentative listings is more useful here than a single search result that flattens both categories into one "Fall 2026" bucket.
Collectors tracking these releases should expect confirmed sale dates and pricing for the Bronco, Skyline, and Shelby GT500 to post to Mattel Creations' Red Line Club collection page in the coming weeks, following the same pattern the Audi Quattro S1 just went through. Until a specific date appears there, treating any of the three as locked in is getting ahead of what Mattel has actually announced.
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July 28, 2026, according to Orange Track Diecast's RLC sale tracker, matching the confirmed product listing on Mattel Creations.
Not yet. It's listed under a separate "tentative" heading, meaning no firm sale date or price has posted to Mattel Creations as of this writing.
Blue Spectraflame over a ZAMAC body, per Mattel Creations' own product listing, priced at $27.00 USD.
No. Elite 64 releases run through Mattel Creations separately from RLC membership, though they're tracked on the same fall release calendar.
The clearest signal in the current RLC calendar is the confirmed July 28 sale date for the '85 Audi Sport Quattro S1, a real, priced, dated release collectors can actually plan around. The Ford Bronco, Skyline GT-R BNR32, and Shelby GT500 Code Red remain genuinely worth watching, but they're tentative for a reason, and treating them as locked in before Mattel Creations posts an official sale listing risks planning around a date that hasn't been set yet.
Whichever release you're chasing, having protection ready before the sale window opens beats scrambling to find the right case after the clamshell arrives.
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