Forbidden Flatness
Porsche are perhaps the best known manufacturer to use flat engines, despite the fact that these days most of their cars are powered by Volkswagen Group Vs or Inlines. However Ferrari too once powered...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Bugatti
Bugatti’s Chiron probably shares more than a few parts with the Audi R8, what with both of them coming from the Volkswagen Empire. In fact we wouldn’t be surprised if the Chiron and the R8 share the...
View ArticleKoenigsegg Jesko | Picture Special
A new supercar company seems to start every week, announcing something with a million horsepower and a top speed of 400mph, before immediately going into liquidation never having built a thing....
View ArticleI Owe You a 10 Second Car
‘The Fast & The Furious’ has a lot to answer for. Terrible dialogue, questionable physics, and finding a way (any way*) to keep characters going throughout the series (however absurd) are standard...
View ArticleStradale
Most plug-in hybrids are a tax-dodging con. Including this one. The Ferrari SF90 Stradale’s 8kw/h battery gives an an electric range of… 16 miles. So with the heater and the radio on, that’ll be less...
View ArticleSpock? Hey, do the Thing!
Did we feature this model just so we could link to an amusing Futurama-based anecdote? Yes, yes we did, but ignore our stupidity, because this is a great build. Suggested by a reader, previous bloggee...
View ArticleFerrari F50 GT | Picture Special
This is the Ferrari F50 GT, a GT1 racer designed to compete in the Global GT Series of the mid-’90s against supercars such the McLaren F1 GTR, Jaguar XJ220 and Porsche 911 GT1. However, Ferrari being...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Land Rover
If – like this TLCB Writer – you think that Land Rover’s new Defender is just another version of the Range Rover to be bought by wealthy but unimaginative financiers for driving between the electric...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Lamborghini
No really, it is. This searingly green Technic Ford F150 is the work of TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, and it’s constructed only from the parts found within the LEGO 42115 Lamborghini Sian FKP 37 set....
View ArticleSuper Sub
It’s the UEFA European Championship, when Europe’s best football teams (plus sometimes Israel for some reason) battle it out to win all the Coca Cola they can drink. Cue the Subaru Impreza STI, a car...
View ArticleJames Young
Who? Well back in the ’60s (and a lot more before then), you could buy a car without a body. Usually a really posh one. The point was a coach builder could create something more bespoke, and they were...
View ArticleDevil Dog
We love Technic Supercars here at TLCB. There’s no need for motors, and the car doesn’t have to actually be a ‘super car’, it just needs steering, suspension, a gearbox, and a piston engine. Perhaps...
View ArticleHalf-Size Supercar
This is an Autozam AZ-1, and it’s awesome! Produced from 1992 to ’94, fewer than 5,000 units were built across all three brands that marketed it (Mazda, Mazda’s kei car brand Autozam, and Suzuki, who...
View ArticleVenom (Unverified)
Several cars currently claim to be the fastest ever produced. The race for the highest top speed has brought about some incredible machines, but it’s also reached a fairly pointless level, as a whole...
View ArticleSupercar Senna
The McLaren Senna has appeared in LEGO form a few times, from the official 75892 Speed Champions and 42123 Technic sets, to a full-size display version. However there hasn’t yet been a Senna in our...
View ArticleMy Other’s Truck’s a Bugatti
Is there anything in the vehicular world more pointless than truck racing? OK, The Brothers Brick’s review of the blue LEGO Fiat 500 set – which is exactly the same as the yellow one, only blue –...
View Article181mph* LEGO Supercar
*Kinda. This is the Spania GTA Spano, a 925bhp, 400km/h supercar power by a twin-turbocharged version of the V10 engine found in the Dodge/SRT Viper. Well, except this one isn’t of course, being only...
View ArticleSpania GTA Spano
What? Yes, us too, but apparently the Spania GTA Spano is Spain’s hypercar, and with 925bhp on tap, it’s quite a potent one. This incredible Technic recreation of the GTA Spano first appeared here...
View ArticleThe Car of Choice
Car choice seems to be shrinking of late. Despite manufacturers creating ever more models, they mostly seem to be crossovers of marginally different sizing but uniform monotony. Engine choices are...
View ArticleRolled Gold
Let’s get the obvious bit out of the way. Those are not official LEGO wheels. But they are excellent. And the model riding atop them is even more so. This spectacular Technic Lamborghini Countach...
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