Product Description
2001 Hot Wheels VW Bug Brown Flames 5DOT #175 53718 China Base
Add a classic air-cooled Volkswagen custom to your collection with this 2001 Hot Wheels VW Bug, Collector #175.
 
Finished in distinctive Flat / Primer Brown, this classic VW features bold red, orange, yellow and black flame graphics across the sides and roof, a contrasting red interior, chrome 5DOT wheels, and a metallic-silver die-cast China base.
 
Released in the 2001 Hot Wheels Mainline as Collector #175, product number 53718, this older metal-base Volkswagen offers excellent appeal for VW enthusiasts, air-cooled collectors, and fans of early-2000s Hot Wheels.
 
The car is New in package: See pictures for quality and variations. The card may have some shelf wear on corner and edge.
 
Collector’s Notes
This release has a very important wheel variation:
5DOT — standard version — your car
PR5 — rare variation
Both carry #53718 / Collector #175, but collector references list a dramatic difference in value between them. Hot Wheels Newsletter currently guides the 5DOT at roughly $7–$10, while its historical guide for the PR5 variation is $75–$150. Those are collector-guide estimates rather than guaranteed selling prices, but they illustrate how important the wheels are on this release.
 
The exact 5DOT configuration is also consistently documented as China-made with a metallic-silver metal base.
 
BIN: 68