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Ferrari are almost Sovietly-bad at naming cars. This is their new 12 Cilindri, so called because it has twelve cylinders. All the other Ferraris that came before it with twelve cylinders were called something else, obviously.

But usual Ferrari crap name aside, the 12 Cilindri is a proper Ferrari (rather than the iPad with wheels they also recently launched), and this tremendous Miniland scale example comes from previous bloggee Joey Klusnick.

An extensive gallery of superb imagery is available to view, which includes shots of the model alongside a life-size brick-built version, and you can find them all via the link above.

Super Cario

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Small, Japanese, strangely strong, and a trade professional, the Super Carry and Super Mario have much in common. Although perhaps Mario is really Italian. No matter, because the driver of Ralph Savelsberg‘s Suzuki Super Carry looks a bit like him, and we’re set on the title now. Anyway, we’re not sure where this going, but you can see more of Ralph’s marvellous Suzuki kei truck at his photostream. Click the link above to collect some coins in the Mushroom Kingdom.

The Racecar Formally Known as Sauber

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Sauber have been in Formula 1 since 1993, and are race winners too, when they briefly ran in partnership with BMW. 2026 marked the end of operating under their own name, with Audi arriving to stick four rings on the front and – excitingly for F1 bosses – their own engine in the back.

The resulting R26 has performed reasonably well so far, moving the team from the back of the pack to ahead of Williams, Aston Martin, and fellow newcomers Cadillac. It also wears a rather cool livery, with Audi’s trademark colour-blocking, and actually-not-terrible-sponsorship.

Previous bloggee Szunyogh Balázs (aka gnat.bricks) has recreated said livery (and not-terrible sponsors) with his excellent replica of the Audi R26 Formula 1 car, utilising LEGO’s excellent new Pirelli slick tyres and a host of clever techniques to accurately capture the 2026 racer.

Superb presentation matches the build and you can find all the images of Szunyogh’s Audi R26 at his Flickr album of the same name via the link above.

LSD not LED

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In recent years Mercedes-Benz – once the creator of the finest automobiles on earth – decided that engineering brilliance should be measured by the number of multi-colour LEDs that can be fitted to an interior.

Don’t worry though, the once-classy brand has finally progressed from designing their cabins to look like the ‘Love Island’ villa to… well, designing their exteriors to look like the ‘Love Island’ villa.

The latest C-Class and GLC feature a front ‘grille’ with 942 LEDs, because… frankly we don’t care. We’d rather walk. Particularly when the brand used to make cars like this one, the fabulous Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II.

Built when ‘Mercedes-Benz’ really did mean ‘engineering brilliance’ the 190E was a wonderfully over-engineered sedan designed to last for a million miles – which many did as taxis in Africa. But it also went DTM racing, and that meant 500 units of a performance version were required for homologation.

Mercedes-Benz enlisted the help of AMG and Cosworth, who tuned the naturally-aspirated 2.5 litre inline-4 to 235bhp, fitted a 5-speed dog-leg manual transmission, a limited slip differential, self-levelling suspension, plus the best aero-kit ever applied to a Mercedes-Benz. And there wasn’t a single LED in the grille.

The result dominated the DTM, and created one heck of a road car. It’s the latter we have here today, courtesy of NV Carmocs of Flickr, and this beautifully presented Speed Champions version.

Clever techniques abound in its creation, particularly in the replication of the iconic aero-kit, and there’s more to see of NV’s superb Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II on Flickr, where there’s not an LED grille in sight.

Grazing Bizon

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We’re not just about cars here at… er, The Lego Car Blog. No, we like all sorts of machinery, even weird 1970’s Polish agricultural equipment. And that’s what we have today courtesy of previous bloggee damianPLE (aka damjan97PL).

This is a Bizon Z056 combine harvester, produced from the mid-’70s to the early-’90s, during which time it held 80% of the Polish combine harvester market.

Following the collapse of communism and its sale from state ownership, the Bizon factory was bought by New Holland for their own production, but Bizon combines are still harvesting countless fields today.

This one captures the 1970s original beautifully in brick-form, and includes a fully functioning header (rotation, elevation and disconnect, and which can be also be removed and towed behind on a trailer), an inline-6 piston engine, plus working rear-wheel-steering.

Building instructions are available and there’s more of Damian’s Bizon Z056 to see at both Eurobricks and Bricksafe. Click on the links to bring in the harvest.

Sauron’s Croissant

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As has been well-documented on these pages, TLCB Staff are not very good at sci-fi. Which means we think that this ‘Crescent 2 Jump Ship’ looks like a cross between the Eye of Sauron and a croissant. Which probably isn’t what builder DePin0 was going for. Nevertheless it is a stunning creation, and you can see more of this amazing spacecraft at DePin0’s photostream via the link, or probably one of the proper Lego blogs shortly, who’ll no doubt be able to describe it not in terms of a breakfast pastry.

Tiny Dozer in My Hand*

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Proving you don’t need thousands of LEGO bricks to appear here at The Lego Car Blog is Franz of Flickr, and his perfectly formed tiny dozer.

Franz’s miniature machine captures its real life counterpart brilliantly despite the diminutive scale, and you can take a closer look at his little Liebherr via the link above.

*Today’s title song. Almost.

Station Wagon Appreciation Society

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It wasn’t that long ago that we were mocking giant American station wagons. Now though, deep in the era of endless identical electric crossovers, we yearn for them. And this TLCB writer is literally typing this from the seat of an electric crossover whilst it charges…

Whether you know them as Estates, Tourers, or Station Wagons, they are all vastly superior to any modern SUV. Including this one, a lovely 1975 Dodge Coronet by Flickr’s Sseven Bricks.

Constructed in 6-wide, Sseven’s Dodge captures a bygone era of motoring wonderfully, and you can head to a gas station in the ‘70s via the link above, whilst this writer waits for his charge to finish.


Grey Moggy

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TLCB Elves and cats do not get on well. The results of cat/elf fights are usually 50/50, but whoever comes out on top TLCB Staff are definitely losers, what with the tidying up and occasional requirement to dig a hole in the yard…

Today though we have a grey moggy that is welcome in TLCB Towers, being this rather neat Speed Champions-scale Mercedes-Benz Unimog by Flickr’s Fukku Guen. Excellent detailing abounds throughout the build and you can take a closer look at Fukku’s ‘mog via the link above.

They See Me Rollin’

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This, as we all know, is a Fadroma WFT-1, a 10-ton Polish road roller produced from 1957 to 1970. Created by previous bloggee Karwik, this splendid brick-built version captures the strangeness of the original machine beautifully, with its molten tar plinth adding to both the realism and weirdness. There’s more to see at Karwik’s ‘Fadroma WDT-1’ album on Flickr, and you can roll a road somewhere in 1960s Poland via the link above.

Spacehog

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This is the Neo-Classic Space ‘Hedgehog’, so called because it looks almost exactly nothing like a hedgehog. But it is so cool. Built to “search for any form of life on an alien planet”, the ‘Hedgehog’ features “an array of antennas, radars, and sensors”, the most interesting of which is the enormous rear-mounted floppy-eared thingumy that rises to attention courtesy of inbuilt pneumatics.

That pneumatic system also allows the entire behemoth to rise on its suspension, much like a Citroen DS, enabling it to clear whatever the alien surface is littered with, before slinking back down when an elevated ride height is no longer required. A superbly detailed mini-figure cabin, some sort of mega propulsion system at the back, and knock-out detailing throughout make this one of our favourite Neo-Classic Space creations so far, and you can head to an alien planet in search of life courtesy of legomess of Flickr, where loads more images and video of the model in action can be found.

Land Speed(er) Champions

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It’s been days without a car and… um, that doesn’t change today. But today’s model is inspired by LEGO’s car-iest of themes. And it’s really good. Tim Goddard has channeled the Speed Champions line (and windshield) for his Land Speeder Champion, and you can enjoy the mash-up on Flickr via the link.

Wind & Wood

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There are a lot of brick-built boats happening on Flickr for some reason. And boats are not cars. But that’s ok, we still like them, particularly when they’re pictured in a scene as lovely as this one.

Thomus Bean is the builder behind this beautiful forest lake, with the wind whipping across it to propel the regatta. Forced perspective and ingenious parts use make it worth donning your woolly hat to take a look, and you can join us on the shore being stung by the wind via the link above.

Flat Earther

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What’s blue and white and flat? Well according to a particularly niche group of society, the observably spherical planet which we call home. Because conspiracy, ice-walls, domes etc. Well TLCB is jumping on the flat bandwagon today because we’re got this lovely early-’70s blue and white Ford F-250 flatbed. Built by Flickr’s Sseven Bricks it’s both assembled and presented beautifully, and you can head across the flat disc to see more via the link above. Just don’t get too near the edge or NASA will disappear you.

Past Master

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TLCB staff do not like the modern Volkswagen Golf GTI. Too heavy, too powerful, too expensive, too automatic, and with cabin controls that even VW themselves acknowledge are total crap, what with them being invisible in the dark. But hey the front grille lights up! Sigh.

Yes we’re grumpy old men today, because we much prefer this, the mid-‘80s Mark II Golf GTI. Low power, low weight, and not a touch sensitive unlit temperature slider in sight. Although they aren’t ’in sight’ in the modern Golf either, which is the problem.

This splendid Speed Champions recreation of probably the best Golf GTI of them all comes from regular bloggee SFH_Bricks, who has nailed the brief.

Just over 300 pieces, instructions are available, and you can head back to when hot hatches didn’t need three sub-menus to change the stereo volume via the link above.