Kei trucks are not renowned for their performance. Smallness yes. Speed no. But what if you fitted a twin-turbo engine in the entirety of the bed?… Well Flickr’s Sergio Batista has answered that question with his mad kei truck, which imagines what a Suzuki Carry would look like if it were built for Time Attack. With choice parts and the livery from the LEGO 77258 F1 Academy Car set it certainly looks the business, and you can drift through the narrow streets of Tokyo via the link above.
It is just over a year since racing car building legend and TLCB Master MOCer Luca Rusconi (aka RoscoPC) tragically died in a motorcycle accident. His works remain amongst the finest that this site has ever published, and continue to inspire countless other Lego builders.
One such builder is Mirko Soppelsa, who has applied Rosco’s trademark style to his Star Wars Storm Trooper speeder bike, complete with a glorious retro Scuderia Ferrari livery.
Mirko’s incredible presentation is match for the builder that inspired him, and you can join Rosco forever biking through the stars via the link to Mirko’s Flickr album above.
It’s funny how words change over time. What once meant herding livestock across the Mongolian steppe, living in a tent and drinking yaks milk, now means sitting on a beach in Bali selling crap digital marketing / lifestyle coaching / crypto courses to the terminally gullible.
There must be a middle-ground…
Fortunately there is, and today we’re showing you how to have a nomadic lifestyle whilst neither freezing in a tent in Mongolia nor becoming an insufferable digital douchebag. This is the Chevrolet Nomad.
Based on the Chevrolet Bel-Air and featuring a gorgeous two-door two-tone station-wagon body, the V8-powered Nomad was the height of ’50s ‘Motorama’ design. Growing to become an equally dramatic four-door station-wagon from ’58, it’s the ’57 model-year we have here, courtesy of previous bloggee Tony Bovkoon and his fabulous Model Team recreation.
Opening doors, hood and tailgate all feature, as does a superbly replicated V8 engine and interior, with lots more to see at Tony’s ‘Chevrolet Nomad’ album. Building instructions are available too so you can go nomadic for yourself; click the link above to find out more, no yaks milk or dodgy digital marketing course required.
Jean Bugatti’s personal Type 57SC Atlantic mysteriously disappeared almost a century ago. Estimated to be worth $100 million today if found, it’s one of just four Atlantics created by Bugatti in the mid-1930s, and perhaps one of the hardest cars ever built to recreate from Lego bricks. Flickr’s NV Carmocs has done just that though, replicating the incredible curves beautifully in Speed Champions scale. Spectacularly presented, NV’s Atlantic may not be worth $100 million but it’s sure worth a closer look, and you can cross the Atlantic via the link to his photostream above.
According to early aerodynamic science, the bumblebee cannot – in fact – fly. But it can, because we’ve seen them do it. Like, all the time. We’re not sure about Shannon Sproule‘s ‘Bumblebee Short Ranger Scout’ though, as even by Classic Space standards its physics look rather improbable. The Classic Spaceman at the controls looks happy enough however, and you can fly on over to take a closer look via the link.
We’ve been AI-ing ourselves, and apparently The Lego Car Blog is the largest archive of Lego vehicles anywhere in the world! Which is probably because no-one else could be bothered… Still, seeing as our Elves have found the square root of nothing over the past few days, it seems like an opportune time to remind ourselves how big the Archives now are. Find whatever you’re looking for (probably) below!
From Alfa Romeo to… um, Volvo (ok, we haven’t quite got to Z), there are over fifty car brands in The Lego Car Blog Archives, from vintage luxury to the very newest marques and everything in between. Find out if your favourite car has been built from LEGO bricks (and what TLCB Staff think of it…) by clicking the words below!
If you like your journeys with two less wheels and the added jeopardy of becoming an unexpected organ donor, we’ve got motorbikes too! From BMW to Vespa, hundreds of hogs, scramblers, cruisers, and superbikes have been built from LEGO, and TLCB Archives are packed with all of them. Don your helmet and join the ride via the link below!
And if you like your vehicles with rather more wheels, and trailers loaded with everything from hay to beer, then check out TLCB A-Z of Trucks, where every brand from DAF to ZIL is represented. Haul yourself over via the link below!
Today The Lego Car Blog is going vegan! Yes we’re swapping pork for tofu, thanks to TLCB Master MOCer Firas Abu-Jaber and this tremendous Toyota AE86 Sprinter Trueno, built only from the parts of the official LEGO 10295 Porsche 911 set.
Capturing the icon from ‘Initial D’ driven by tofu delivery driver Takumi Fujiwara, Firas’ 10295 alternate includes an opening hood, hatch and doors, working steering, pop-up headlights, plus a beautifully detailed engine and interior.
Firas has also added some custom replica ‘Initial D’ decals – the only part not coming from the donor Porsche, and so good is the result you’d be hard pushed to know it’s not meat. Er, we mean an alternate.
Superbly photographed and presented, there’s lots more of the model to see at Firas’ ‘Toyota AE86’ album on Flickr; take a look via the link above and perhaps swap pork for tofu yourself.
We’re off to go and eat some ribs.
The United States of America is 250 years old! Which makes it not quite as old as this TLCB Writer’s church. Still, a quarter of a millennium is worth a party, and what better way to do that than by renaming an airport, starting a war with Iran, and putting a slightly crap fair on the National Mall. Or, alternatively, building a giant gatling-gun-armed mech with George Washington’s face on it! Flickr’s Julius von Brunk knows how to celebrate a semiquincentennial anniversary and you can join him on the Whitehouse Lawn via the link above! USA! USA!
A pen has just been dropped by a grey-suited lawyer in Maranello. He looks up. He can sense something is wrong. Somewhere, someone has used the F-word without his permission.
Ferrari do not like it when their logo is applied to something they haven’t built (or even if it’s removed from something they have), so they’re really not going to like this Ferrari Dino 246 GTS by Flickr’s Nathanael Kuipers. Because underneath, this Ferrari is a Corvette.
Yes this Dino 246 GTS is constructed entirely from the pieces found within the Icons 10321 Chevrolet Corvette set, and includes opening doors, engine cover and front and rear trunks, a removable roof, and a detailed interior, with all of it rebuildable at home as Nathanael has published building instructions too.
There’s much more to see at Nathanael’s photostream and you can take a closer look – and maybe recreate it for yourself – via the link above, before Nathanael is handed a Cease & Desist notice by a disgruntled Italian lawyer.
Various comments received here at TLCB have rightly accused us of posting garbage, and excitingly we’ve got more garbage to post today!
This is a Mack LR side-loading garbage truck, and it’s been built only from the parts of the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, so there’s some recycling going on as well.
There’s working steering, a 6-cylinder engine under the tilting cab, a tipping hopper, and an operational side-loading arm too.
Flickr’s Dyens Creations is the builder behind it, and you can put your bins out via the link above, plus you can click here for another 42175 alternate blogged here previously. Because we do post a lot of garbage.
TLCB Elves are all happily watching ‘Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark’ today, thanks to previous bloggee _Tyler and this excellent recreation of the 1937 Mercedes-Benz 320 Staff Car that starred in the movie.
A recreation of a real 1937 Mercedes-Benz 320 itself, the movie car saw action in a chase involving a several vintage German vehicles, a gaggle of Nazis (we’re not sure their collective noun is), and a horse, with the car eventually coming off worse in an exchange with Dr. Jones’ stolen military truck.
There’s more to see of _Tyler’s creation on Flickr via the first link, plus you can watch the famous movie scene in which it starred via the second. Take a look and start humming the theme music…
We’re alternately off-roading at TLCB today, thanks to Master MOCer Thirdwigg and this neat Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer, an immensely capable military truck named after an Austrian cattle breed and built until the mid-‘00s.
Constructed from 755 parts of LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set, Thirdwigg’s recreation of the unusual Austrian off-road truck includes working suspension, steering, a mid-mounted piston engine, an opening hood, and – most importantly – a lunchbox.
Building instructions are available and you can click here to swap your American horse for an Austrian cow.
It’s the 2026 Football World Cup, and today we’re FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a phone call from President Trump, because much like Team USA in their Belgium knock-out game we’ve got a surprise American striker!
However it’s not Folarin Balogun after his mysterious Presidential one-match ban rescindment, but rather this excellent SSC Tuatara Striker from Eurobricks’ MAP Tec.
Featuring a working V8 engine and 8-speed gearbox, adjustable suspension, steering, a deployable spoiler, opening butterfly doors, and even a working handbrake, MAP Tec’s Technic Tuatara is as packed with functions as Infantino’s pockets are with dirty dollars.
You can support the model on LEGO Ideas and there’s lots more of MAP’s SSC Tuatara Striker to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to see your red card ban overturned and then lose to Belgium anyway.
Jaguar don’t actually make anything at the moment. Which means that if they and LEGO wish to continue their partnership they’ll need to look backwards. And look back they have, to – in the words of Enzo Ferrari – the most beautiful car ever made. This is the brand new LEGO Icons 11381 Jaguar E-Type!
Constructed from 1,673 pieces, including a new windscreen, wheel arches and wheels, 11381 attempts to recreate the E-Type Roadster’s spectacular curves in brick form and… well, it’s perhaps not the most beautiful LEGO set ever, despite the source material.
Like the previous 10262 Aston Martin DB5 set, 11381 proves that 1960s curves are tricky to create from bricks, but it is nevertheless instantly recognisable, and includes working steering, a folding roof, a detailed straight-6 engine under the forward hinged hood, opening doors, and an opening trunk complete with a toolbox (it is a classic Jaguar after all).
Aimed at ages 18+, the new LEGO Icons 11381 Jaguar E-Type is expected to cost $140 / £130 / €140, and you’ll be able to get your hands on it later this year.
It’s been some time since one of our Elves ran over its colleagues with a remote control creation. And that doesn’t change today, as despite being epically remote controlled, this magnificent Tatra trial truck is too slow to run down any Elves at all. Which enraged the Elf that found it. Still, a Red Smartie will perk it up, and we can take a look at this astonishing creation without having to clean the floors first.
It comes from TLCB Master MOCer Sariel, and it’s a Tatra 813 8×8 designed specifically for going very slowly over almost anything.
Eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, high/low gearbox, incredible suspension, and a working piston engine all feature, and you can see more of this mighty machine on Flickr and via the video below, where Sariel pulls some very heavy things (very slowly) across his floor.
YouTube Video