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Farewell Fiesta

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The party’s over for the Ford Fiesta. One of the best selling cars in Europe for nearly fifty years, Fiesta production ended in 2023 so Ford could focus on crossovers. Yay.

There are literally millions left on the roads of our home nation though, with the Fiesta still the UK’s most sold used car. A smattering of sporty variants will be among them, but most Fiestas are simple, low-power, economical transport for the masses.

But that’s not say the Fiesta couldn’t be turned up to eleven, and Ford did just that with several wild World Rally Championship, X Games, and Rallycross monsters, some of which had over 800bhp.

It’s the former of these we have today, courtesy of Eurobricks’ apachaihapachai, who has recreated the final seventh-generation Ford Fiesta in rally car form.

Fitted with twin Power Functions L Motors, BuWizz bluetooth remote control, and independent suspension, apachai’s creation is a riot to drive, and also includes opening doors plus a working transverse 4-cylinder engine under the opening hood.

Free building instructions are available (one-hundred TLCB points to apachai) and you can find a link to them plus further imagery and a video of the model in action by clicking here.

Towing Package Optional

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Arriving in the mid-’00s, the sixth generation Dodge Charger was a boring four-door sedan with an anaemic 2.7 V6, a four-speed automatic, and Chrysler-corporation interior plastics. Yay.

However, the Charger was also available with a much more interesting 5.7 litre ‘Hemi’ V8, and could be optioned up to 6.1 litres in SRT8 trim, with a further Road/Track package adding ten more horsepower, a sunroof, satellite navigation, a 322-watt stereo, a rear-seat DVD entertainment system, and a heavy-duty cage for pulling a bank vault. That last one may not have been on the official options list.

This incredible replica of the Dodge Charger SRT8 is the work of Michael217 / Michael Kulakov, who has equipped his remarkably detailed model with working steering and suspension, a V8 engine, plus four opening doors, hood, and trunk.

Better still, Michael has also fitted his creation with a suite of third-party remote control electronics including RCBric management, Geekservo steering and Buggy Motor drive, which we’re currently using to pretend we’re a giant bald-headed baby horrifically murdering Rio police officers with a bank vault on a cable. Well, we’re whacking TLCB Elves with a shoe-box on a string, but we’re still having fun.

Anyway, whilst we reenact the chase scene from ‘Fast Five’ in the corridors of TLCB office you can check out more of Michael’s fantastic build at both Eurobricks and Flickr. Click the links to take a closer look!

Cruiser of Choice

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Toyota’s legendary 70-Series Land Cruiser has traversed the world’s most inhospitable places since the mid-’80s (as well as a lot of Australian supermarket carparks), and is still on sale today.

Over that incredible forty year production run, the 70-Series has been fitted with a bewildering array of engines and body styles, courtesy the hugely diverse markets in which it is sold.

All of which makes it rather hard to choose one particular variant if you’re intent on recreating the 70-Series out of our favourite plastic bricks. So Eurobricks’ 2GodBDGlory hasn’t. He’s made all of them.

Yup, 2God’s fantastic modular Land Cruiser 70-Series can be built with five different engines (or Power Functions remote remote control), 1980s, 2000s, or 2020s styling, short, medium, or long wheelbase, SUV (with hard or soft top) or Pick-Up (with various tray/bed configurations), and a roof basket or rack.

Best of all, he’s made building instructions available for free, so you can recreate your perfect Lego Land Cruiser 70-Series at home! Find out more at the Eurobricks forum, and you can see various configurations on-location in his Bricksafe album here.

Well Groomed

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As you’d expect, working for a world-famous Lego website means VIP invites, public speaking events, and meetings with top LEGO executives. Therefore being well-groomed is an essential part of the job.

Well, we’d imagine it is anyway. Fortunately we’re not The Brothers Brick and thus we receive precisely none of the above. So we can look like tramps.

But today, and most unusually, we do in fact have a grooming device in TLCB Towers! Because this is a 1:13 scale fully remote controlled Kässbohrer PistenBully 800w snow-groomer, and it’s tremendous.

Constructed by Zeta Racing of Flickr, this incredible creation features no fewer than twelve Power Functions motors, providing remote control to the drive and skid-steering, snow-plough blade elevation, profile and tilt, crane and winch operation, and the remarkably complicated looking, um… grooming thingy on the back.

A piston engine, four sets of LED lights, and superb custom decals also feature, making Zeta’s build one of the most impressive Technic creations of the year so far.

Beautifully presented as well as engineered, there’s much more of this phenomenal model to see at Zeta Racing’s photostream, where over thirty top-quality images are available to view.

Click the link above to see snow groomed better than any human here at TLCB…

BuWizz Gathering 2025

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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

 

Grab & Go

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It’s a sunny day here at TLCB Towers and the Elves are off hunting for the best Lego vehicles that the web has to offer. All except one, who we found dangling alone from the grab of a hefty remote control excavator left abandoned in the corridor. We may have laughed. A lot.

Said creation is based on an ET-25 excavator, and comes from deltamc of Eurobricks who has recreated both its visuals and operation beautifully. Constructed from around 2,000 pieces, delta’s model can drive, steer, slew, and position the two-stage boom (equipped with either a bucket or grab) via remote control, thanks to a suite of six Power Functions motors and four linear actuators.

It’s an impressive piece of Technic engineering, and one you can watch in action via the video below and create for yourself, as delta has made free building instructions available. Find out more at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.

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Sunset Stripe

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We love a sunset stripe here at The Lego Car Blog. From classic Toyota pick-ups to vintage LEGO sets, red over yellow looks the business. And even more so when it’s been applied to a remote control 6×6 off-road truck.

This remote control 6×6 off-road truck is the latest creation by TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, who has equipped it with Power Functions Servo steering, twin L-Motor six-wheel-drive, a high/low gearbox, a V8 piston engine, all-wheel suspension, opening doors and hood, plus the coolest of sunset stripes.

There’s lots more to see at Eurobricks and Nico71’s excellent website (where building instructions are also available), and you watch the sunset via the links above.

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Digging Dirt

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The Elves here at TLCB Towers eat all sorts of things. These include actual meals, awarded to them for finding a blog-worthy creation such as this one, but also glue sticks, dog treats, erasers, and anything else they deem edible.

This means that everyone’s least favourite job is cleaning out the Elves’ cage room, but today this TLCB Writer doesn’t have to get close to the little turds’, um… turds, because he can clean remotely thanks to this spectacular fully motorised Volvo EC300E excavator!

Built by Nura of Eurobricks, this incredible creation blends the best of Technic and third-party suppliers, with three SBricks delivering Bluetooth control to eight Power Functions motors, a suite of Bricktec LED lights, and two custom pneumatic units, with the result being that the 3D-printed bucket can move just like the real thing.

The tracks, rotating superstructure, two-stage boom, bucket, and twin pneumatic compressors are all operable remotely, with the electronics hidden inside a superbly realistic and authentically liveried exterior.

It’s a masterpiece of Lego engineering, and you can see more of Nura’s amazing creation at the Eurobricks forum, and via the video below. Take a look via the links whilst we put this Volvo to work.

Drop It Like It’s Hot*

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Reminiscent of the 1960s ’round-bonnet’ Mercedes-Benz trucks still in use all over the developing world, this lovely classic drop-side truck was discovered by one of our Elves today, and it comes from previous bloggee LegoMarat, who has built and photographed it superbly.

Equipped with opening cab doors, front and rear suspension, opening drop-sides, and fully remote controlled drive and steering, Marat’s model is one of our favourites of the year so far, and you can take a look at all of the images on Flickr via the link above.

*Today’s title song. ‘Cause we’re from the hood.

Dump Day

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It’s two days after ‘Liberation Day’, when the enormous global tariffs enacted by the Trump administration bite. And bit they are, as investors are dumping stocks at the fastest rate since 2020.

Cue today’s creation, this classic dump truck by Flickr’s JLiu15. A working piston engine resides under the opening hood, there’s remote control steering / (all-wheel) drive, and you can dump stocks faster than the Nasdaq thanks to the hefty load bed which tips pneumatically.

There’s more to see at JLiu15’s ‘Classic Dump Truck XL’ album, and you can head there to take a dump via the link above.

The Hornsby Steam Crawler…

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…sounds like an English pub. Or a magical artefact at Hogwarts. Or a Victorian murderer. Or an unspeakable sex act. But is in fact this bizarre contraption from the 1909; a British steam-powered chain-track tractor that worked in the wilds of Canada where gas was scarce but coal was abundant, and the father of all Caterpillars.

Constructed by previous bloggee Nikolaus Lowe (aka Mr_Kleinstein), this marvellous brick-built remotely controlled recreation of the Hornsby Steam Crawler ingeniously replicates its two-speed gearbox and differential subtractor steering (which you can see in action here), with more to see at Nikolaus’ ‘Hornsby Steam Crawler’ album on Flickr. Click these words to murder someone with a magical artefact in an English pub, all whilst…

Big Fifty

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Turning fifty is a big occasion, and especially so for today’s birthday boy. Yes Big Foot, the original car-crushing monster truck, is half-a-century old!

This spectacular brick-built replica of the Ford F-250-based colossus is the work of Orion Pax aka Alex Jones (no not that one), complete with custom chrome, superbly authentic decals, plus LED lights and remote control drive and steering.

It’s a monstrously good build and there’s more to see of Alex’s fantastic fiftieth birthday homage to the all-time monster truck great at his photostream. Click the link above to take a look, or here to see more of Big Foot doing what it does best.

Vive la Révolution

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The thing about revolutions is, they always end up right back where they started.

Cue the Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution, a $2.1million ultra-limited hypercar developed by England’s Delta Motorsport and produced by Texas-based Hennessey Special Vehicles.

This astonishing Technic replica of the Venom F5 comes from TLCB Master MOCer Lachlan Cameron (aka loxlego), who has recreated of one of the world’s fastest ever production cars in stunning detail.

Created using many of the parts from the official LEGO Technic 42172 McLaren P1 set, and available as a traditional manual Technic ‘supercar’ or with a suite of electronics to enable remote control drive, Lachlan’s build includes working suspension, steering, a V8 engine, sprung scissor doors, and ride-height lift.

Wheels from the 42172 McLaren P1 set and the exhaust tips have been beautifully chromed for added realism, plus the model features working LED head and tail lights, and one of the most accurate Technic interiors we’ve seen yet.

It’s an incredible homage to a wild real-world car, and with building instructions available you can create your very own Venom F5 at home. Full details, videos, and further imagery can be found at the Eurobricks discussion forum and via Lachlan’s ‘Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution’ album on Flickr, plus you can find out more about the builder via his interview here at TLCB.

As for the real Venom F5 Revolution, it’s aiming to record a top speed of over 300mph / 500kmh if Hennessey can find somewhere long enough for its 1,800bhp twin-turbo ‘Fury’ V8 to achieve it. And in a world of all-electric hypercars, that makes the Venom F5 something of a revolution. And proves that revolutions are indeed cyclical after all.

Star Tipper

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We love Big Red Trucks here at The Lego Car Blog, and – judging by the joyous noise emitting from the Elves riding around in the back of this one – so do our smelly little workers.

The truck in question is a Star 266M, as built (beautifully) by previous bloggee damjan97PL of Eurobricks.

Controlled by a third-party SBrick, damjan’s creation features Power Functions six-wheel-drive, Servo steering, plus working suspension and opening cab doors, revealing an excellent interior.

The feature we’re most interested in however, is the remotely operable tipping bed, which can lift half-a-kilo. It’ll have no trouble with a gaggle of TLCB Elves therefore, for whom a tray of soapy water awaits.

Whilst we give some of our workers a surprise bath, you can see more of damjan’s superb Star via the link above, where a video of the truck in action and the complete image gallery can also be found.

Blue Blood

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The Lego Car Blog Elves have been peaceful of late. We have Febrovery to thank for that, what with there being a regular supply of whimsical space-based vehicles arriving at TLCB Towers, none of which have motors, remote control, or giant smushy wheels at all.

We knew it couldn’t last forever though, and thus today normal service was resumed as one of the Elves thundered into TLCB Towers atop this, gyenesvi’s giant ‘Blue Bird’ BuWizz-powered remote control Ultra4 off-road buggy.

The Elves serenely making beep-boop space noises in the corridor stood no chance, as twin BuWizz Buggy Motors, four-wheel-drive, and double-wishbone / trailing-arm suspension squashed them into the carpet, before the Elf at the controls – maniacal with glee – fled the scene on foot.

We’ve now got some tidying up to do, so whilst we do that you can check out gyenesvi’s Ultra4 buggy at Eurobricks and Bricksafe, where further images, renders, a video, and a link to building instructions can all be found.