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With over four-thousand pieces, the LEGO Technic 42082 Rough Terrain Crane is one of the largest sets ever released. Which means there are plenty of parts with which to create something new. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, who has constructed a number of alternates from the vast set, with his latest being this; a fantastic Mercedes-Benz Unimog tow-truck.

Utilising around 3,500 of 42082’s pieces, Nico’s phenomenal B-Model features no less than five motorised functions, plus four-wheel-drive, an inline-6 piston engine under a tilting cab, working steering and suspension, and opening doors, toolboxes and compartments.

Like the donor set, a single motor provides motion to a huge array of functions via a sophisticated gearbox, with Nico’s B-Model cleverly including reverse switches so the battery box can be switched on and left.

Working stabiliser legs, an articulated towing-platform, an elevating and extending crane boom, and a winch (which is ingenuously synchronised with the boom to maintain its hook level) are all operable through a series of levers, allowing Nico’s Unimog to function exactly like the real thing.

It’s an astonishing alternate and perhaps the very best B-Model build that this site has ever published, with full details, engineering diagrams, and a link to building instructions available at the Eurobricks forum. Find all of the above and convert your own 42082 Rough Terrain Crane set into this amazing alternate via the link, plus you can watch the model in action via the video below.

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Two-Tone Truck

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TLCB’s Rover 200 is two-tone, but somehow beige-and-rust doesn’t look quite as good as Sseven Brick’s classic orange-and-white Ford F-250.

Cleverly constructed in 7-wide, the white portion of the bodywork has a depth of 2½ plates, and we’re not even sure that’s possible.

However he’s done it there’s more to see at Sseven’s photostream, and you can two-tone over via the link whilst we ponder if an orange rattle-can could transform the office Rover…

My Other Truck’s Garbage

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Do you own the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, but wish it was a little more… garbage? Then we have the perfect alternative!

Constructed only from the parts found within 42175, previous bloggee paave’s garbage truck B-Model features a tilting cab, functioning steering, a  working piston engine, an operational discharge plate, an openable and locking tailgate, plus a pneumatically operable side-arm lift that can seemingly lift a bin from the other side of the street.

There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch all those features in action below.

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Diagonally Bricking

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We like a brick-built livery here at The Lego Car Blog, as they – like their real-world counterparts – are able to turn something rather ordinary and ubiquitous (like a DAF 95 truck) into something rather more visually interesting.

Cue Flickr’s joopatkleppie, whose DAF 95 wears the ‘90s livery of haulage firm Jonker Veendam, and that means diagonal stripes…

Jooptakleppie has managed it though, and you can check this diagonally-striped DAF at his photostream via the link.

LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar | Set Preview

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You’ve seen the full size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, and now LEGO have unveiled their 1:8 scale Technic version. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar!

Constructed from 4,104 pieces, many of which make their debut on this set, 42232 recreates the ultra-exclusive Jesko-based Sadair’s Spear, named after the final racehorse Christian von Koenigsegg’s father rode as a jockey.

Like the real car, 42232 includes a mid-mounted V8 engine connected to a 9-speed sequential gearbox (complete with an in-cabin gear indicator), working steering, Koenigsegg’s triplex suspension, and an ingenious recreation of ‘Ghost Mode’, where the front and rear clamshells open as the the doors simultaneously rotate upwards. How that works when the doors can still be opened independently is an engineering marvel in itself.

42232 also looks wonderfully accomplished visually, no doubt helped by the gorgeous replica wheels, with LEGO confidently mirroring the model and the real Sadair’s Spear on the box to highlight the set’s accuracy. That image does helpfully hide the printed headlights though.

Aimed at ages 18+, the new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is expected to cost $450 / £400 / €450 and will be available to order from July 1st 2026. Get in early and you’ll also receive a two-hundred piece replica of the Sadair’s Spear’s steering wheel as a Gift-with-Purchase.

Without doubt 42232 is one of the most technically intriguing Technic Supercars to date, and if you haven’t seen the life-size version yet, take a look at this…

The Fastest LEGO Car Ever Made: Life-size LEGO Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear

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In 2025 the new Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear became the fastest ever production car up the famous Goodwood Hill. Just thirty units of the astonishing 1,300bhp hypercar will be produced, each costing over $4 million. Except… if you’re willing to go a little smaller.

Yes LEGO have announced a brand new 4,104 piece Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Technic set – which we’ll reveal here shortly – and in celebration of the launch LEGO and Koenigsegg teamed up to create something epic; the fastest LEGO car ever made.

Constructed from 327,906 LEGO pieces, this incredible life-size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear took 9,400 hours to design and build, and features everything from a recreated Koenigsegg key to the real Sadair’s Spear’s ‘Ghost Mode’.

Which is all very cool, but didn’t we also say ‘fastest LEGO car ever made’?

Yes, this 1800kg life-size Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is fully drivable, and Markus Lundh – the Koenigsegg test driver who broke the Goodwood Hill Climb record in the real thing in 2025 – took on the challenge of driving the Technic version at the very same location.

With a little gravitational assistance, Lundh hit a phenomenal 111kmh on his run down the famous hill, more than doubling the previous record.

You can watch Lundh at the wheel of LEGO’s sensational life-size Sadair’s Spear in the video above, and check back here soon for our reveal of the brand new LEGO Technic set that inspired this epic feat.

Just the Tip

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The Mazda RX-8 was a triumph when new. With an astonishing buttery-smooth rotary engine displacing just 1.3 litres yet making 240bhp, bizarre rear suicide doors, seating for four, and styling – to quote one famous Top Gear host – “busier than the Pope’s hat”, there was nothing else like it.

And then they got old, and that amazing engine… failed. A lot. Even well maintained RX-8s suffered from terrifying oil consumption and rotor tip wear leading to engine failure, but the poorly maintained ones (as older sports cars often are) died alarmingly quickly.

Values tanked, and now one of the most interesting cars of the ‘00s is worth absolutely nothing at all.

But we like weird, flawed, unreliable cars here at TLCB, and so we love today’s model; this fantastic Model Team Mazda RX-8 from previous bloggee Mihail Rakovskiy. Featuring a highly detailed interior, realistic drivetrain, a remarkably replicated exterior, and a working rotary engine, Mihail has captured Mazda’s mad ‘00s creation beautifully in Lego form.

Excellent presentation matches the build, and there’s lots more of the model to see at Mihail’s ‘Mazda RX-8’ album on Flickr. Take a tip from us and check it out via the link above.

Grave Robber

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Everyone knows grannies are loaded with cash, but Nonna Vittorina’s grandchildren can expect a larger payday than most. The wheeled bandit’s latest score complete, she makes her escape as the banknotes from her heist blow behind her.

We suspect she’s not acting along though, and a shifty looking Loïc Gilbert is a likely accomplice. Follow the trail of loot back to Loïc’s photostream via the link above.

Super Nova

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Here in TLCB’s home nation we know the ‘Nova’ as an early-‘80s to early-‘90s supermini that was everywhere, and then nowhere, as rust and neglect killed – like all ‘80s economy cars – almost every last one.

In 1960s America however, an ‘economy car’ meant something rather different, and General Motors used the same nameplate for the Chevrolet Nova, the base engine for which was more than twice as big as the largest engine ever fitted to its later Vauxhall namesake.

But we’re not interested in the base Nova, not when there was a V8 engine of over five litres available in the Super Sport variant. Imagine that in a Vauxhall shopping car…

This beautiful ‘67 Chevrolet Nova SS is the work of Flickr’s PleaseYesPlease, and it’s about a billion times cooler than the Novas we got. Superbly built and presented, there’s more to see at Please’s photostream and you can take a look via the link.

Special K

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TLCB is the sort of place where we like an improbably large engine attached to something wildly inappropriate. And there’s few vehicles more inappropriate for massive power than a Japanese Kei truck.

Limited to 3.4m in length and engines no larger than 660cc, Kei trucks are really very small indeed. But that hasn’t stopped newcomer Fukku Guen from fitting his with an enormous bed-mounted engine plus a pair of nitrous tanks.

We expect the handling – not to mention the carrying capacity – may be slightly compromised, but it more than makes up for that with fantastic silliness.

There’s more of Fukku’s modified Kei truck to see on Flickr, and you can take a look at his photostream via the link!

Studs for Pixels

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2015’s ‘Rocket League’, wherein teams of players use rocket-powered buggies to play football, has become something of a cult phenomenon. Despite a somewhat ropey physics engine, the game attracted over 40 million players by 2018, has been rated as one of the greatest games of all time, and even has a professional e-sports championship. Which proves that Fun counts more than Realism (and hence why we employ mythical Elves).

This awesome Miniland scale recreation of the ‘Octane’ – one of the three base cars within ‘Rocket League’ – comes from recent bloggee Joey Klusnick, who has captured it brilliantly. There’s more to see at Joey’s photostream and you can swap pixels for studs via the link above!

My Other Piece of Agricultural Equipment is a Unimog

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The new and rather excellent looking LEGO Technic 42242 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023 set brings a whole lot of lime to the Technic line-up.

Which means a famously-lime agricultural brand is within B-Model reach. And reach Eurobricks’ Ngoc Nguyen has done, because he’s created this tremendous Claas Torion 530 front loader solely from the parts found within the aforementioned Unimog.

42242’s pneumatics have been redeployed to create a twin-cylinder boom lift and tilt, at the end of which is a mechanically-operated removable grapple, whilst there’s articulated steering via both ‘HOG’ and the steering wheel.

Building instructions are available and you can find further details of Ngoc’s excellent 42242 alternate at the Eurobricks forum. Swap your ‘Mog for a Claas via the link above.

BuWizz Gathering 2026

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BuWizz-powered creations have been appearing on The Lego Car Blog for years, and with programable bluetooth control, mega power, and a 5-Star Review when we tested their awesome 3.0 Pro system, it’s easy to see why.

If you’re a BuWizz builder or a fan of seeing what remote control Lego can do, the BuWizz Gathering 2026, held in BuWizz’s beautiful native Slovenia, is coming this July 11th-12th.

The 2026 event will include multiple vehicular competitions, daily prizes, conferences, and a social dinner, as well as attendance from 95-million views YouTuber RacingBrick and TLCB Master MOCers Sariel and Nico71.

Tickets are on sale now for €60 (competitors) and €20 (spectators).

Find full details and tickets for the BuWizz Gathering 2026 here

There’s also currently 10% off BuWizz components in their Summer Sale. Click on the image below to take a look at what’s available.

Industry of Machinery & Tractors

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Before Yugoslavia dissolved into seven separate countries (we’re counting Kosovo – live with it Serbia), it was a communist dictatorship like so much of Eastern Europe. And with the usual foibles of Communism, that meant magnificently unimaginative naming.

Cue the Industry of Machinery & Tractors (IMT) 533, a 33hp tractor licensed from Massey-Ferguson and built in large numbers from the 1950s and for decades thereafter.

This neat Lego example comes from Flickr’s Keko007, and pulls an equally neat wooden drop-side drawbar trailer. There’s more of the model to see at Keko’s ‘IMT 533’ album and you can head to the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia via the link.

N Vision

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We still don’t have many Hyundais in our Archives. Which is strange, as they’ve been around for decades, they make reasonably interesting products, and they’re one of the world’s largest automotive manufacturers.

In fact all but one of the Hyundais in the Archive are this, the awesome N Vision 74. Constructed by Flickr’s jklu17legodude this Miniland scale version captures the wedge-shaped concept to perfection, and you can check out the only Hyundai that seems of any interest to Lego builders via the link above.