“I stuck to my gut and I kept pushing them back.” They were not behind those wheels, they were not happy with the wheels,” Garg recalled. I knew that I was one of the critiques that I got every time the judges saw my car. “One of my favorite moments was telling Ted that I’m going to stick to my guns and make these wheels bigger. You would think, if you’re designing a would-be Hot Wheels, you might heed the advice of somebody who is in charge of designing actual Hot Wheels. Ted Wu, vice president of global vehicle design for Hot Wheels even told Garg that the big wheels she was planning on putting on the Skyline didn’t work aesthetically. along with host Rutledge Wood cautioned her against the wheels during the building process. Judges Dalal Elsheikh and Hertrech “Hert” Eugene Jr. It was a controversial design choice that paid off. Her winning vehicle is quite different from the modest sedan she started with, as she notably raised the Skyline well off the ground and put it on big rally-style wheels. “I was given one of the coolest cars,” Garg said of the Nissan Skyline she was given for the finale. RELATED: All the Hot Wheels: Ultimate Challenge Finale Contestants Are Here to Win When I looked over and saw Nick’s Pontiac Trans Am transform into one of the craziest Trans AMs I’ve ever seen, and Arushi’s car becoming a four-wheel drive Nissan, that’s when I knew it was on.” “This is a real competition that Arushi and Nick want to win just as bad.
“When I started to see the designs that they were coming up with, then it started to change for me,” Farrell recalled. Rally Resilience, a Nissan Skyline that she transformed into a big-wheeled rally car emblazoned with positive messages, bested Nick Harrison’s Blazin' Bird and "Jerzey Jim" Farrell’s Superfanvan.įarrel, who turned a Volkswagen Van into a purple hot rod, explained that he “came into the finale hot,” but that he quickly realized how formidable his opponents were. “You tend to believe in yourself after winning something like this. “I have never been in this position before where I have gone ahead and done a show of this stature - and somehow won it,” Garg told NBC Insider. Watch Hot Wheels™: Ultimate Challenge on NBC and Peacock.
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