Hondari

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Inspired or sacrilege? Mike “Stanceworks” Burroughs’ Honda-powered Ferrari 308 is definitely not for the purist, but we’re firmly in the former camp, and think it’s spectacular.

Cue Stephan Jonsson’s fantastic 8-wide Speed Champions homage to Mike’s real-world build, complete with 3D-printed wheels and one of the most impressive brick-built liveries we’ve ever seen (see LEGO, you don’t need a hundred stickers).

There’s lots more of Stephan’s Ferrari ‘244 GTK’ to see on Flickr, and you can check out the real car that inspired it here.

Green Shells in the Garden

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The kiddie-based cuteness continues here at the Lego Car Blog. Recreating what their kids imagine when they’re riding on their toys outside, Cecilie Fritzvold‘s ‘Baby Mario Kart’ captures all the madness of Nintendo’s finest work, complete with shells, banana skins, item boxes, Lakitu’s cloud, and some very hungry plants. And with LEGO releasing their own officially-licensed Mario line, perhaps an official LEGO Mario Kart set is just a rainbow road away.

I’m Up in Space, Maaaaan!

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Finding time to build (or do anything) when you’re a new parent is tricky. Three years since he last uploaded a creation, Flickr’s Dvd has finally managed it, with the ‘help’ of his son, and in doing so allowed us to link to the greatest performance in Eurovision history. We might be biased. Anyway, TLCB’s blatant nationalism aside, even when it feels like trying you’re to reach the for moon, you can always build a rocket.

My Other Le Mans Car’s a Peugeot

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The Technic 42156 Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hybrid Hypercar is a slightly weird, but nevertheless welcome, addition to LEGO’s officially-licensed line-up. First competing in 2022, before a full World Endurance Championship assault in 2023, the 9X8 has been… underwhelming.

A single podium all season and an 8th place at Peugeot’s home event of the 24 Heures de Mans is the best the car has achieved so far, but PeugeotSport are past race winners, so the results may come yet.

Until then though, if you own a 42156 Peugeot 9X8 and fancy swapping it for an endurance racer that’s more… winning, davidragon of Eurobricks has the answer!

Making his TLCB debut, davidragon has used the pieces from the 42156 Peugeot 9X8 to recreate a car from the other end of the World Endurance Classification, but one with rather more success.

The Chevrolet Corvette C8.R is the first mid-engined Corvette racing car, and placed second in the GTE-Pro class at Le Mans in 2021, before winning GTE-Am in 2023, finishing one place ahead of the second Peugeot 9X8 Hypercar that competed some three classes above it. Oof.

Davidragon’s incredible C8.R alternate features opening doors and hood, independent suspension, working steering, and a mid-mounted piston engine, and there’s lots more to see, including a link to building instructions, at the Eurobricks forum.

Click the link above to swap your Peugeot 9X8 for a Corvette C8.R, and improve your chances of winning some silverware.

…Otherwise We Get Angry!

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Or ‘…Altrimenti Ci Arrabbiamo!’ in its original Italian, is a 1974 movie – unwatched by TLCB we must confess – starring the two least Italian-sounding actors we’ve ever heard of.

Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, who were actually Italian as it turns out, compete in the film for a Puma Dune Buggy via beer and sausages. Or something like that. Our Italian’s not great.

And despite the Puma looking and sounding as un-Italian as its co-stars, it too was a product of Italy, built on the platform of the Volkswagen Beetle much like the more famous American alternatives.

This excellent Speed Champions example comes from previous bloggee Versteinert, who has captured it (and Terence and Bud in mini-figure form) brilliantly. There’s more to see at Vertsteinert’s ‘Puma Dune Buggy’ Flickr album, and you can win a dune buggy by eating Italian sausage (probably) via the link in the text above.

Find My Car in Lego | G to L

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Have you ever wondered what your car would look like in Lego form? Well you might just be able to find it, with a little help from The Lego Car Blog Archives.

We’re back with Part 2 of the Find My Car in Lego series, this time looking at the most frequently built brands from G to L.

If your car (or one you’re interested in seeing Legoifiyed – What? It is a word) wears a brand from G to L, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find it below!

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G to L

GAZ

These Soviet era trucks and cars have appeared far more frequently than you might think. We also earned our record for the most negative comments received due one GAZ post in particular. Find it and the rest here.

Honda

Sports cars, economy cars, kei cars, Formula 1 cars, and humble mopeds, they’ve all appeared here by the dozen. Click here see everything we’ve published to wear the famous ‘H’.

Hummer

We hate Hummer. But that hasn’t stopped Lego versions from appearing here. Click these words and shout “U.S.A!” or “Freedom!” or some other nationalistic nonsense as you do.

Hyundai

Only a few Hyundais are in the archive so far, which is bit weird considering they’re one of the world’s largest manufacturers. With cars like the N Vision 74 pictured here, expect many more to come.

Isuzu

Trucks (mostly), and one of the most common vehicular sights across Asia. Find all the Lego versions to appear here by clicking these words.

Jaguar

An orderly queue of these British cars can be found in the archive, with even a few official LEGO sets now joining the fan-made models. Click here to join it.

Jeep

From wartime Willys to the latest Wrangler, around a hundred Jeep images are in the archive to date. Many of the models are motorised too, so you can recreate off-road adventures in miniature in your own back yard.

Koenigsegg

There are probably as many brick-built models of Sweden’s hypercar as there are the real thing. You can find those that have featured on this site by clicking here. There’s even an official LEGO set.

Lada

Russia’s most popular car brand has appeared here numerous times over the years. Resolutely rectangular LEGO bricks do seem to fit Lada’s aesthetic rather well…

Lamborghini

The products of Italy’s maddest supercar maker have been recreated countless times in brick form. One of the most popular brands in the archive, find all the Lego Lamborghinis to feature by clicking here.

Lancia

The most interesting back-catalogue of any car maker, matched only by their dismalness today. Unsurprisingly, it’s old Lancias that have captured the imagination of builders. Find their classics here.

Land Rover

The Best 4x4xFar. Except the Evoque Convertible, obviously. Beautiful replicas mix it with official LEGO sets. Click here to find them all.

Lexus

‘The Japanese Mercedes’, as one famous fictional radio DJ put it. They’re better than that though, and you can find all the models from Toyota’s luxury brand that have appeared here to date by clicking these words.

Lotus

From sports cars to movie stars, with even an official LEGO set thrown in. Why you really should take a look in the Lotus archive however, is for the historic Formula 1 racers. They are magnificent.

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That’s the most frequently built car brands* from G to L. If you’d like to check out the previous A to F list you can do so here, and of course you can use the Search box on every page to be as specific as you like. Next time, M…

*If you’re wondering why Kia isn’t on the list, us too. The Lego Community; get on it.

Orangler

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Here at a high-mid northern latitude, TLCB Team have been waiting for the arrival of spring. It’s getting light into the evenings, plants are waking up, and adventures are easier to find.

Cue today’s creation, this splendidly orange fully remote controlled Jeep Wrangler by previous bloggee gyenesvi. With Powered-Up four-wheel-drive and steering, live-axle suspension, and removable doors, hard-top, roll-bar, and winch, gyenesvi’s Wrangler is just the thing for springtime adventures.

It’s been duly taken on a few too, with some superb on-location shots on the mountain trails outside the city. There’s more of the model to see at the Eurobricks forum and on Bricksafe, where links to building instructions can also be found. Start your off-road adventure in an orange Wrangler via the links above.

Master MOGer

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TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg continues to expand his Mercedes-Benz Unimog catalogue. This one is a U5000 short cab tipper, meaning there’s more room to put stuff to tip. A three-way (snigger) tipping bed, working steering, high/low gearbox, rear suspension, piston engine, plus front and rear winches all feature, and you can see more – including a link to building instructions if you’d like to create it yourself – by clicking here.

Find My Car in Lego | A to F

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Have you ever wondered what your car (or a car you really like… or even dislike for that matter) would look like in Lego form? Well The Lego Car Blog is here to help!

Whilst our Archives, rumoured to be inhabited by a band of long-lost and now-ferrel Elves, are a dark and bewildering place, you can access them digitally via the search box on every page. And fortunately for us, we have an intern, who we can send into the archival catacombs to retrieve past vehicular curiosities. Thus one mildly-traumatised intern later we can today commence a brand new series; Find My Car in Lego!

With so many vehicle brands past and present, this would be a very long post if we highlighted them all, so instead we’re going to focus on the most popular brands, segmented alphabetically, beginning with A to F…

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A to F

Alfa Romeo

Like that girl you dated in college, Alfas are interesting, beautiful, and will cost you dearly. Click here to take a look at everything to wear the famous shield, from racing cars to aircraft. There’s even a link to Kim Kardashian’s bottom.

Audi

Vorsprung Durch Technik. Alongside plenty of Technic Audis to peruse, the Audi archive includes a few official LEGO sets, and whole load of quattros. Click here to get three feet from the car in front.

Austin

They didn’t just make Minis. From black cabs to mid-engined rally cars, put on your best British accent and take a look at everything to wear the Austin badge here.

Bentley

Once maker of the ‘fastest lorries in the world’, and now cars for footballers, you can pretend you don’t have a mortgage by clicking these words.

BMW

Now known for making the ugliest cars in existence, our archives are packed with brick-built machines wearing the firm’s roundel. Sedans, racing cars, motorcycles, and even oddities like this, you can find them all here.

Bugatti

The world’s fastest cars have, somewhat unsurprisingly, been recreated countless times in Lego form. Official LEGO Bugatti sets, and even a drivable life-size replica join the fan-built models.

Buick

From land yachts to hot rods, there’s a wide variety of Buicks in the archive. One’s even pedal powered. Click here to find them all.

Cadillac

More land yachts. And more than a few movie cars, from Ecto-1 to Mad Max. You can check out everything in the archives to wear the Cadillac badge here.

Chevrolet

Pick-up trucks, day vans, taxi cabs, hot rods, and – naturally – several little red Corvettes. There are dozens of Chevys of all types in the archives and you can find them all here.

Citroen

Really very French indeed, older Citroens have captured the imagination of countless of Lego builders. Find their creations by the dozen by clicking here.

Daihatsu

It’s not just supercars, Americana and quirky European classics here at The Lego Car Blog. Nope, tiny Japanese boxes feature too, and you can find every time Daihatsu have appeared by clicking here.

Dodge

Dodge have made all sorts of boring cars over the years, but for some reason 90% of those in our archives seem to be of the muscle variety. Click these words to see them all.

Fiat

Objects of both joy and derision, not least due to all the terrible Eastern European cars they spawned, you can find every Fiat – from official LEGO sets to Abarth spin-offs – by clicking here.

Ferrari

Probably the most popular brand* in the archive, with over three-hundred images tagged. Official sets, Formula 1 cars, classics, and supercars have been built in their hundreds.

Ford

*If it wasn’t for Ford, with nearly one-hundred Mustang images alone. Which has allowed us to make countless jokes about Mustang owners, and for that we are grateful. Find them, and the hundreds of non-Mustangs also wearing the Ford oval, by clicking here.

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If your car’s make isn’t within this post and you don’t want to wait until we reach it alphabetically, you can of course find any vehicle that may have appeared here via the aforementioned search box. Simply input some words and see what’s returned! Next time, G…

Fifty Shades of Green

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Poop poop! It’s time for a vintage car here at The Lego Car Blog. Because vintage cars are cool. This one – inspired by the classic LEGO 5920 Island Racer set – uses parts from the Speed Champions 96907 Lotus Evija plus a raft of black hoses and clips beautifully. Entitled simply ‘#50’, there’s more to see courtesy of Flickr’s atp357; click the link above for a vintage race.

Daffy Truck

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This ginormous green machine is a DAF XG, the brand’s 2021 replacement for the XF truck that is ubiquitous across Western Europe, and here at TLCB too.

Constructed by MCD in 1:21 scale from around 1,300 pieces, this brilliantly-built replica of the XG – shown here pulling a tipper trailer designed by fellow builder Niklas Kaemer – features working steering, opening doors, and a whole lotta lime.

Building instructions are available and you can find out more at both the Eurobricks discussion forum and MCD’s ‘2021 DAF XG 4×2’ Rebrickable page. Click the links to take a look.

Let’s Cook

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It’s been over a decade since Breaking Bad (AKA The Best Thing That’s Ever Been on TV Ever) concluded, yet the seminal show is still inspiring Lego builds. Cue Nick Kleinfelder and this wonderful recreation of the infamous 1986 Fleetwood Bounder RV methlab that starred throughout out the series.

Complete with mini-figure Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, Nick’s cooked up a model of incredible detail, using a complex formula of ingenious building techniques. You can see how Nick’s done it at his photostream, and you can jump to the New Mexico desert via the link above.

She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain…

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It’s been a while without any cars here at The Lego ‘Car’ Blog, so today we’re on to trains. But we like trains. Particularly when they’re as beautifully built and presented as this one.

This huge diorama of a tiny train was constructed by builder Evancelt for the ‘2024 Rocky Mountain Train Show’ in Denver, and a more apt creation it’s hard to think of.

Travelling between two mountain tunnels by way of some cunningly concealed magnets that move under the tracks, Evancelt’s little steam train is a wonderful example of shrinking the scale to expand the detail.

From the micro-scale pick-up truck, fences and trees, to the galleon hidden in the cloud, there’s so much to see, and you can do just that at both Flickr and Eurobricks, where you can also find a video of the train in motion.

Click on the links above to take the tiniest little train journey.

Wetter Than an Otter’s Pocket

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We all know that James Bond can seduce any woman in less time than it takes to read this sentence. Yup, if you’re a girl (What? We have female readers! Probably…), you’d already be, well.. you know.

Cue László Torma, and this magnificent Speed Champions Lotus Esprit S1, the star the 1977 Bond film ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’. Of course in the aforementioned movie, Bond’s Lotus was fitted with a few optional extras courtesy of Q-Branch / the Pinewood special effects department, which meant that his Esprit could get rather more aquatic than most.

A car submarine chase of utter ridiculousness was the obligatory result, in which Bond seemed to spend as much time no-doubt-successfully seducing his female passenger as he did trying to evade the generic goons sent in pursuit.

Eventually 007’s Lotus sprung an inevitable leak (because even non-aquatic Esprits would do that), but by then he’d already defeated his adversaries and secured certain relations with his glamorous fellow submariner.

With building instructions available and the ability to become (well, be rebuilt as) a submarine, we’re looking forward to the effect László’s Lotus Esprit will have on the females here in TLCB Office. You can give it ago yourself via the link above, plus you watch the real car submarine in the iconic movie scene here.

Forever 21

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This splendid creation – pictured in front of some equally splendid wallpaper – is a GAZ-21 Volga, a Soviet large sedan produced from the mid-’50s until 1970.

The most luxurious car available to individual owners within the USSR, the GAZ-21 was styled to resemble ’50s American cars, and even featured a Ford-licensed column-change gearbox, despite the rather frosty relations between the two countries at the time.

Constructed by previous bloggee paave, this Technic recreation of the GAZ-21 remarkably features that column-change gearbox, along with a working 4-cylinder engine, independent front and leaf-spring rear suspension, steering, folding seats, plus opening doors, hood, trunk, and glovebox.

A full parts list and building instructions are available, and you can take a closer look at paave’s brilliant creation via both the Eurobricks forum and his Bricksafe gallery.