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Every Lego Car, Ever*

From Alfa Romeo to Volvo, almost every major car manufacturer (and a lot of minor ones too) have seen their vehicles recreated in Danish plastic.

Thousands of Lego cars have appeared here at The Lego Car Blog over the last decade, with hundreds of trucks and motorcycles joining them too.

Which means if you’ve ever wondered ‘I wish there was a Lego version of my car…’, there probably is. And it can be found in our enormous A-Z of fifty car manufacturers, where you can find the biggest and best archive of Lego cars, sorted by the badge on the hood, anywhere in the world.

Find the complete A-Z of Lego Cars here

(plus Trucks and Motorcycles)

*Well, all the good ones.

How to Get Your Model Featured at TLCB…

…and other Lego sites too.

It’s been a quiet few days here at The Lego car Blog, during which time the mythical Elves we use to scour the web for the best Lego vehicles have returned zilch, nada, nothing. Boo.

But have you ever wondered ‘How do I get my model featured on The Lego Car Blog?’. Well this post is for you!

Lego Barn Find Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix

1. Help the Elves to find you. Our Elves search far and wide for the best Lego vehicles on the web, and their favourite haunts are Flickr, Eurobricks (specifically the Technic & Model Team forum), and Bricksafe. They don’t visit social media sites though, because a) social media is poison, and b) underscoring the whole ‘poison’ thing, social media platforms usually require activating an account to view images, which means we can’t link our readers to them. We’d therefore really encourage you to upload your creations to a free-to-view platform like those listed above, even if you’re on social media sites too.

2. Follow, but not too closely… If you want to increase your chances of getting noticed, then check out the groups we follow and maybe join them yourself, and/or follow us (we’re on Flickr and Eurobricks under our site name). However please don’t message us saying ‘Please blog my creation’, nor add images to our Flickr group that haven’t been featured here. If your work is good enough, and meets our criteria, that’s enough : )

Lego Photography Studio

3. Meet the Criteria. All the main Lego sites will likely look for similar things in the models they feature; a great model, well presented, with high quality imagery. Here at The Lego Car Blog we also add the aforementioned free-to-view accessibility, and the need for the model to be (or feature) a vehicle. You can find our full criteria by clicking these words.

4. Help us tell a story. A model that’s a little unusual may stand a greater chance of appearing, as it allows us to say something new. We like weird, probably because we are ourselves. A few one-off vehicles (like the one pictured above) and have even drawn attention here from their real-world owners.

And that’s it! Be visible in a free-to-view place, join some Lego vehicle groups and discussions, take care with presentation, and try to build something unique. Follow these steps and one of TLCB Elves may return to our office clutching your creation in their claws. We hope they do!

2025 | Year in Review

It’s 2026! The Winter Olympics, Football World Cup, and Artemis Lunar Programme will all arrive in the next twelve months, but before then let’s look back at our 2025…

Posts

We published nearly a post a day over the last year, with the most viewed of 2025 being our preview of LEGO’s new officially-licensed Formula 1 sets. The top page (outside of the Homepage of course) continued to be the Review Library, with our new A-Z of Lego Cars not far behind.

Visitors 

2025 wasn’t just the Year of China for vehicle sales (with Chinese car brands that didn’t even exist a few years ago now everywhere), but also for visitors to this site. China shot up the country rankings to end the year in third place, with many days having more Chinese visitors than even Americans. A new world order is imminent. Either that or dozens of models that have appeared here over the years are about to become Chinese copy-cat sets…

Germany, the UK, Netherlands and France completed the top six, with just over half of all visitors joining us from a desktop and just under half from mobile devices. Which definitely means at least one of you has visited us from your office toilet.

2026

What does 2026 hold? We’re not sure there’s as much need for The Lego Car Blog as there has been in the past. The online Lego Community now feels rather fragmented over dozens of platforms and social media sites, and doom-scrolling through Instagram will inevitably serve up far more Lego creations than we ever could. But for now at least we still like doing this, and it seems hundreds-of-thousands of you do too. Well, you keep coming back, which must count for something.

Thus we’ll endeavour to continue publicising the very best vehicular builds from across the internet, with reviews and set previews too. If you like what we do you can support us here, and if you don’t you can always let us know in the comments.

Wishing you a very happy and brick-filled 2026

TLCB Team

It’s Christmaaaaas!

The doors to the TLCB Towers have been locked, the Elves are back in their cages, and TLCB Staff are off to exchange gifts / see loved ones / drink heavily. Perhaps all three.

Thus there’ll be nothing new to see here for a few days, as we take our customary break from the internet to spend time on things that matter rather more. If you’re in need of your Lego car fix over the coming days there’s loads here to see in the Archives, including Interviews with the world’s best vehicle makers, the A-Z of Lego Cars (and Trucks too), the enormous Review Library, and if you’ve enjoyed what we’ve written during 2025 you can buy the Elves us a Christmas present here.

Yet whilst all the above are worth a click, we’d encourage you to save them for another time. Switch off, ignore your screens, and enjoy the season.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and we’ll see you soon.

TLCB Team

Today’s Christmas creation can be found courtesy of Jens Ohrndorf.

Black Friday | Nothing to See Here

Black Friday

It’s the most wasteful time of the yearWith credit cards loadedHousehold debt has exploded
‘Cos discounts are hereIt’s the most wasteful time of the year
It’s the shallowest season of allThere’ll be fighting in Walmart
To fill a shopping cartBut it won’t fill that holeIt’s the shallowest season of all

Feel-Good Alternatives 

Creations for Charity

Buy a one-of-a-kind creation, with all of the proceeds used to buy LEGO sets for underprivileged children who might get nothing else this Christmas.

Red CrossTearfundChristian Aid

Fantastic charities working every day to alleviate poverty, suffering, and injustice around the world. Visit their appeals, and change a life.

We’re 14 Today!

Lego 14

Yes it’s The Lego Car Blog’s birthday! And unlike almost every previous year we’ve actually remembered on the day itself. At fourteen years old this dodgy alley in the corner of the internet is older than the Tesla Model S, Grand Theft Auto V, Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’, and Tik Tok. And not even a fraction as successful as any of them.

Still, millions of you have joined us over the years, whether that be for the thousands of Lego cars, trucks and motorbikes we’ve publicised, the over a hundred LEGO set and product reviews, reveals of new LEGO sets, interviews of some of the world’s best Lego builders, or the Your Mom jokes. Whatever your reasoning, we’re glad you’re here.

We’re not on social media but if you like what we do feel free to spread the word, you can click here to write to us to complain that we haven’t featured your creation, and if you really want to support us you can buy the Elves a birthday present here.

We’ll keep trying to publicise the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, and thank you for joining us on the ride.

TLCB Team

Creations for Charity 2025!

Creations for Charity is back!

Creations for Charity, the fantastic annual fundraiser raising money for the provision of official LEGO sets to children who have little else, is back for 2025! Through the sale of unique Lego creations, hundreds of underprivileged children will receive a LEGO toy this Christmas, and you could get your hands on an amazing one-off Lego model to boot!

Get involved

You can join in Creations for Charity 2025 in several ways;

  • By donating a creation to the Creations for Charity store
  • By buying a creation
  • By giving a monetary donation to the charity

You can take a look at the Creations for Charity fundraiser by clicking the link below, where fabulous fan-built creations can soon be bought. You could even join the building heroics by donating a Lego creation of your own.

Do something amazing, get involved in Creations for Charity 2025 and bring some joy to a child who really needs it.

Buy or donate a creation at the Creations for Charity store.

TLCB x AI

Here at The Lego Car Blog we try to do things differently. Often worse, but differently nonetheless. Thus today we’re going to address the rise of the machines, and the two letters that – if countless sci-fi films prove correct – will probably spell the end of us all. A. I.

Now deployed in every job application, university essay, and best man’s speech, AI has changed (or imminently will) pretty much everything. Cancer screening, vaccine creation, and disaster response are immeasurably more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence, whilst music, movies, and voice work can be produced without artists, and photographic/video evidence now means nothing.

On balance, for all the potential good it can do, we think that AI is probably going to harm society more than help it, and so – mirroring our approach to social media – we have decided not to use it here at The Lego Car Blog. Correspondingly all our content will continue to be written only by human beings, and thus all the mistakes you spot are our own. We will also endeavour to ensure that no AI-generated creations are featured, with our Submission Guidelines updated to reflect this policy (although this may prove tricky to administer once AI can nail it).

Until then however, The Lego Car Blog will proudly be an AI-free site, both in word and image. Unless the robots in charge in the future deem this post evidence of resistance, in which case AI wrote it.

Image credit.

Sponsor an Elf!*

Do you love Lego cars, trucks, aircraft and sci-fi? Do you like ‘Your Mom’ jokes and references to Putin’s tiny member? Then have we got a deal for you! And by ‘deal’, we actually mean a ‘donate’ button.

Yes we’ve finally done it, after being asked to a few times by our readers. So here it is. It won’t appear on the main page because that feels a bit pushy, but it can be found in the About Us, Contact, and FAQs pages. And below.

If you’d like to donate something please do (any profit we make goes to charitable causes), and if not we’re still delighted to have you here : )

TLCB Team

*Donations are not guaranteed to feed TLCB Elves.

Carbon Fiber Lego Wheels

Carbon Fiber. (Or ‘Fibre’ if you spell it correctly. Ed.) The wonder material from which Formula 1 cars, the Ferrari F40‘s bodywork, the Lexus LFA‘s tub, and fancy road bikes are all made.

Which also means that, inevitably, carbon fiber fakery is everywhere too. Car interior trim, vinyl wraps, even wallets, laptops and suitcases can all be found in finest farbon ciber, mostly looking terrible.

But today we have the real deal, because this is the world’s first genuine carbon fiber Lego wheel. It may not look much, but it’s bona-fide carbon fiber, and its maker PlasticGear has detailed how he constructed it.

Take a look at PlasticGear’s pioneering project in the video above, you can join the discussion at the Eurobricks forum, and don’t even think about wrapping your wing-mirrors/spoiler/centre console in fake carbon, because we’ll laugh at you.

Bleugh! Ads!

Running a world-famous Lego website has its perks. Fame… Girls… Riches… Probably. Still, running this shed in the corner of the internet also has its perks, and we do earn a little from all your eyeballs and the ads they linger on.

Except for the last few days the ads have gone berserk. Now it might be because our equipment and operating systems are older than some of our readers, but nevertheless ads started to appear over images, over post text, and – in delicious irony – even over other ads.

If you’ve been affected by this ad explosion, rest assured we changed nothing to prompt it. But we have summoned all our technical prowess to correct things. Which basically means we’ve turned off advertisers’ ability to place ads anywhere they like.

This might mean that TLCB treasure chest is a little emptier than usual, but seeing as we give its contents to those who need it more than we do, and there won’t be any contents if you all get annoyed and leave, it’s the right thing to do.

Anyway, we hope it’s all fixed now. Let us know if not. And do please linger on the ads that do appear – it makes it all worth it.

TLCB Team

In Remembrance of Luca Rusconi

Writing for The Lego Car Blog is mostly a happy thing. Occasionally however, it isn’t, and with much sadness this is one of those times.

Multiple bloggee, TLCB Master MOCer, and one of the most talented vehicle builders anywhere in the world, has placed his last piece.

Famed for his spectacular historic Formula 1 cars, Luca Rusconi, aka RoscoPC, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident just outside of his hometown Milan. Aged 54, he leaves behind his wife, three children, and a Lego Community that will miss him terribly.

His incredible Lego work remains on Flickr, his website, and via archives such as our own, and we encourage you to take a look – we have no doubt it will forever be amongst the finest ever built.

BuWizz Gathering 2025

The BuWizz Team is thrilled to invite you to the annual BuWizz Gathering, a two-day paradise for all LEGO Technic fans with competitions and fun activities for all ages.

Regular readers of The Lego Car Blog will know that some of the most impressive remote control creations to appear here are powered by BuWizz. Bringing programable bluetooth control to Lego creations, BuWizz earned a coveted 5-Star Review when we tested their awesome 3.0 Pro system.

If you’re a BuWizz builder or a fan of seeing what remote control Lego can do, the BuWizz Gathering 2025, held in BuWizz’s beautiful native Slovenia, is coming this July 18th-20th.

The 2025 event will include five vehicular competitions, daily prizes, conferences, and a social dinner, with tickets on sale now for €50 (competitors) and €20 (spectators).

Find full details and tickets for the BuWizz Gathering 2025 here

 

BrickCon 2025

The longest-running Lego fan convention in the world is back for its 24th year! Last year, BrickCon broke a record for most AFOL attendees ever, and they want to do the same this year.

BrickCon 2025 will commence at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington September 4-7, with the public viewing days taking place September 6-7. This year’s theme is “Full STEAM Ahead”, symbolising the event’s mission to support science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) skills in children.

Join the fun!

BrickCon attendees can enjoy enormous Lego displays, games, builder presentations, prizes, as well as displaying their own models, plus one of the biggest draws to BrickCon is the people; attendees come to meet other AFOLs and make new friends, with an insight available via the Why Come to BrickCon as a Builder webpage.

Registration for BrickCon 2025 is now open, with tickets for the full convention available for $85, and virtual attendance available for $25. Visit afol.brickcon.org for full details, special hotel rates, and some sneak peeks as to what’s coming.

Brickshelf Stay of Execution

A few weeks ago we published the news that due to the passing of its founder, Brickshelf – and the two-and-a-half decades’ of Lego creations it stored – would cease to be available on March 1st 2025.

Unchanged since the turn of the millennium, Brickshelf was a time capsule for both the Online Lego Community and the internet itself, with both the site and the creations it housed being rather basic, right-angled, and unsophisticated. And it was excellent.

Admirably the estate handling Brickshelf’s cessation took the approach of alerting its users to the impending closure*, a message sites like this one could amplify (which we duly did on January 30th), allowing users to retrieve their images, and maybe even a new owner to be found.

Just two days on from our post, and Brickshelf’s alert was amended to include the following update;

“The initial notice generated many responses, including people interested in purchasing Brickshelf. Based on this response the estate will plan to keep Brickshelf online through mid April as discussions move forward with interested parties to purchase Brickshelf”

Whether or not new ownership is successfully established, this reprieve does provide users with a longer period to retrieve their images should they wish to, but of course we hope that this news means that the first (and last remaining) dedicated creation-sharing website may yet live on…

*See Sean Kenney, it’s not hard.