Skippy
Following a vehicle that appeared here earlier in the week (which the builder has now updated with an indolent, tracksuit-wearing, oxygen-wasting, fly-tipping scumbag after reading the post, earning...
View ArticleDetroit to JDM
There aren’t many Japanese cars that can challenge bona fide supercars, however the Toyota Supra Mark IV did just that, being faster and having more power than 1990s supercar exotica. Cue this...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Ferrari
Once seen as a knock-off Ferrari, yet now revered more than the Maranello products it sought to take on, Honda’s NSX is often regarded as the pinnacle of driver’s cars. It’s fitting then, that this...
View ArticleMy Other Tractor’s… er, Also a John Deere
The LEGO Technic 42157 John Deere 948L-II Skidder set is one that – after a look through our archives – we must’ve missed, what with it not being there. Still, we’ve never claimed to be competent, and...
View ArticleGet Your Digs for Free
The internet is full of wonderful Lego models, many of which can be recreated at home thanks to readily available building instructions. For a fee. Because one of life’s few certainties is that if...
View ArticleB-Hoe
LEGO’s 42081 Volvo Autonomous Loader set thoroughly perplexed us when it was revealed a few years ago. It still does really, but tungpham of Eurobricks saw greater potential in the Technic oddity than...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Huracan
The Lamborghini Huracan is boring. At least if the regularity at which YouTube ‘influencers’ (yuk) switch out of them into the next clickbait supercar is any indication. But no matter, because if...
View ArticleHappy Being Single
Discovered by one of our Elves on Eurobricks, this is newcomer McMarky’s rather good tracked excavator. Like all good Technic models, McMarky’s creation can operate just like the real deal, being able...
View ArticleThe Worst LEGO Sets Reviewed by TLCB
The LEGO Car Blog’s ‘Review Library‘ contains well over a hundred LEGO set, book, and third party LEGO-compatible product reviews. It also, with an average score of 7.8/10, shows that we generally...
View ArticleA Beautiful Nightmare
Hailing from the golden era of Japanese sports cars, the ‘FD’ Mazda RX-7 was the third and final generation of the rotary-engined icon. With assistance from twin-turbos, the FD’s 1.3 litre twin-rotor...
View ArticleMicro Machine
Unlike your Mom, Kei-class microbuses are really very small indeed. However they manage to pack a whole lot into their tiny footprint, with room for four adults plus luggage, some feature...
View ArticleNosing Ahead
The new BMW M4, as with many of the brand’s latest offerings, is rather… er, nostrilly. Still, in racing form that humungous beak must help with cooling, and the M4 is indeed available to buy as a...
View ArticleMy Other Car is also an Off-Road Buggy
LEGO’s Technic 42160 Audi RS Q e-Tron revealed here earlier in the year has brought a rather intriguing – if ultimately unsuccessful – prototype racing buggy to bedroom floors in brick form. Powered...
View ArticleMultiple Aliases
This is one of those cars that is probably familiar to all of us, and yet may also not be at all. This is a Geo Tracker, built by 2GodBDGlory, and in fact it’s his Geo Tracker, being a Technic...
View ArticleSand Green
Winter is coming here in TLCB’s home nation. The trees are red and yellow, the ground is thick with the shells of various nuts, and a good proportion of the country is under water. So to cheer us up...
View ArticleGatorade
We love simple basic vehicles here at The Lego Car Blog, perhaps because we’re rather simple and basic ourselves. Cue the John Deere Gator, an all-terrain utility vehicle powered by a 340cc lawn-mower...
View ArticleMighty Metro
It’s the early-’80s, and British Leyland has a new small (and surprisingly good) car on its hands. The Metro, first sold as an Austin and later a Rover, rapidly became a best seller, with over 130,000...
View ArticleMy Other Vehicle’s a Giant Excavator
The 4,100-piece LEGO Technic 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator is the largest and most expensive Technic set ever released. With seven motors, two ‘Smart Hub’s, and programmable control via the...
View ArticleMy Other Digger’s a Jeep
We love alternative builds here at TLCB. They’re at the very core of what LEGO is all about, turning the pieces used to create one thing into another thing entirely. Flickr’s Dyen’s Creations earns...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 2024 | Set Previews [Lost in Space]
It’s that time of year again, when a crack team of TLCB Elves ‘volunteer’ to be fired over the perimeter wall of LEGO’s HQ. Their mission; to uncover the new-for-2024 Technic sets, dodge the guard...
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