What One Match Ban?
It’s the 2026 Football World Cup, and today we’re FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a phone call from President Trump, because much like Team USA in their Belgium knock-out game we’ve got a surprise...
View ArticleMentally Challenged
If the Ford Mustang is the car of crashing immediately upon leaving an otherwise respectable car meet, the Dodge Challenger is the car of crashing in the middle of an illegal one. Usually seen doing...
View ArticleHome Built Hypercar
Barely a week goes by without some announcement of a new 2,000bhp, 300mph hypercar from a start-up company no-one’s heard of that will absolutely never get built. But this one is different, because...
View ArticleHoney I Shrunk the 8880!
Like, really shrunk it. 1994’s 1,300 piece LEGO Technic 8880 Super Car is one of the all-time great sets, and therefore these days it’s worth about as much as Twitter. With all-wheel-drive,...
View ArticleThe Ferrari Ferrari
Ferrari are pretty patchy at naming their cars. Whilst there are a few excellent names in their back catalegue such as ‘Daytona’, ‘Superamerica’ and ‘Monza’ (although that was also an ’80s Opel), most...
View ArticleDihedral Synchro-Helix
You see, it’s not all Your Mom jokes and toilet humour here at The Lego Car Blog, because today we’re doing science. Just look at that title! The source of our newfound intelligence is this incredible...
View ArticleGT LM GTE #68
This is a Ford GT LM GTE, which is – admittedly – not a good name. But it is one heck of a car, winning the GTE class at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2016 exactly 50 years after Ford first took outright...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a McLaren
This astonishing Technic Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 was discovered on Eurobricks today, and – even more astonishingly – it’s built only from the parts of the 42172 Technic McLaren P1 set. Shown here in...
View ArticleVive la Révolution
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...
View ArticleThe Last True Lotus
This TLCB Writer, living in Lotus’ home-market, can’t remember the last time he saw an Elise. Or an Exige. Or an Evora. He can however, remember the last time he saw Lotus’ new five-meter-long,...
View Article#MorePatriotism
The misplaced patriotism continues here at The Lego Car Blog, with another American automotive icon. The Ford Bronco first appeared in the 1960s, and now – after a twenty-five year absence – the new...
View Article#Patriotism
America is in the news of TLCB home nation rather a lot at the moment. Whilst we’ve quietly called, held, and politely delivered the outcome of an election in six weeks, America’s year-long campaign...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42172 McLaren P1 | Set Preview
LEGO’s long-standing relationship with McLaren has borne all manner of models over the years, from classic Formula 1 cars to Extreme-E racers, and life-size replicas to Speed Champions miniatures....
View ArticleStud Bug
In contrast to this site’s bodged operation and shoe-string budget, TLCB usually publishes models at the exotic end of the vehicular scale. Sleek, powerful, rare… the cars we feature are the opposite...
View ArticleDefinitely Not a Supercar
The Lego Car Blog isn’t just about hypercars and monster trucks. Nope, we also deal in crummy ’70s French hatchbacks! This one is a Peugeot 104, first released in 1972 and surviving until 1988, by...
View ArticleIconic Evolution
The Porsche 911 may have looked pretty much the same for the past sixty years, but due to multiple ground-up redesigns it’s a vastly different machine from what it once was. Even the car used as the...
View ArticleCrossbreed
Porsche are now an SUV maker, with a small sideline in sports cars. Lamborghini are the same. And so are Aston Martin, Bentley, and even Lotus. It was inevitable then, that Ferrari would cave too, and...
View ArticleMC12
Maserati might today make a range of boring SUVs (which brand doesn’t?), but back in the mid-’00s they made something rather more special. This is the Maserati MC12. Based on the chassis and V12...
View ArticleBuild-an-F40
Ferrari may have built a surprisingly large number of F40s, but even with our big-time Lego Blogging Money, owning one is considerably out of reach. However this stunning Technic version is rather...
View ArticleLife Begins at Forty
Or so people in their 40s like to say. For Ferrari however, it’s very probably true, as – despite their amazing pre-1980s back-catalogue – the Maranello marque’s all-time high water mark came in 1987...
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