Robert William Matthes is a designer who worked at Hot Wheels from 2002 to 2017 and again since 2023. He is noted as being the design lead for the Hot Wheels Elite 1:18 scale line along with their 1:50 lines. He served as a design manager for Hot Wheels from 2008 to 2017, managing the $1 lineup from 2008 to 2012 and then managed the playset team until his departure in 2017. He also manages his own company, SpeedShift Art, specializing in automotive illustration. He rejoined Hot Wheels in 2023, working mainly on Premium products.
