I need help with Tomica Cars

I need help with Tomy Die-cast Cars

Okay, so I picked up a few of these cars in a toy shop in HK today but I could not find any info about them on the net. I spent an hour trying to copy and paste Japanese that looks identical to the writing on the box as I don't know ANY Jap and I finally found that some are on sale on Amazon for much more than what I paid for. Here is the link:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AB%E3%83%97%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89-%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AB-%E3%81%84%E3%81%99%E3%82%9E%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9-%EF%BC%A1-18/dp/B001PJ7K80

I would really appreciate if someone could tell me which series it is and where I can find a definitive list of this series with pictures and shit. Thanks so much!:love:

 

I'm not good with Japanese, but I am good with google.

Loos like the one in the auction is from a 1997 line.
Source: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://hellototomica.com/article/a00091.html&ei=Y-JPSrPSGuSwtgfO0dm1BA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%25E3%2583%2588%25E3%2583%259F%25E3%2582%25AB%25E3%2583%2597%25E3%2583%25A9%25E3%2583%25AC%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2583%25AF%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%25AB%25E3%2583%2589%25E3%2580%2580%25E3%2583%25A2%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2582%25BF%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2583%2588%25E3%2583%259F%25E3%2582%25AB%25E3%2580%2580%25E3%2581%2584%25E3%2581%2599%25E3%2582%259E%25E3%2583%2593%25E3%2583%25BC%25E3%2582%25AF%25E3%2583%25AD%25E3%2582%25B9%25E3%2580%2580%25EF%25BC%25A1-18%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-USfficial%26hs%3Ds9t

Original, un-translated source: http://hellototomica.com/article/a00091.html

It's a bit of a long page, just control-f and search for "A-18" which is the one you linked.

 

Hi,

For [ Motor-TOMICA ] A-18 Isuzu VEHICROSS your link is.
around 80mm-long motorized die-cast car series in 1997-2000,
JPY 1029 (tax included) retail price for.
bigger than regular TOMICA series. railway toys PLARAIL-like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomica

http://www.tcp-ip.or.jp/~katagawa/MotorTomica.htm

Motor TOMICA list (Japanese) :
http://hellototomica.com/article/a00989.html

pictures of Motor TOMICA (in Japanese) :
http://images.google.co.jp/images?q=%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%9F%E3%82%AB&hl=ja&lr=&safe=off&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi