Soviet Snowrunner
This is a UAZ 3151, one of the Soviet Union’s many fantastically-boringly-titled, but actually very capable off-roaders. Built by Keymaker, this stunning fully RC recreation of the Russian off-roader...
View ArticleAvoiding Rocks
Not all race-winning Mercedes racing cars are silver. This is the famous ‘Red Mercedes’, the 1924 winner of the immense ‘Targa Florio’ road race across Italy, rumoured to be painted red to stop...
View ArticleThree is the Magic Number
Britain has a long tradition of making crap cars. This is widely considered to be one of them. The Reliant Robin has been the butt of jokes in TLCB’s home nation for years. Cheap, slow, and missing...
View ArticleHummers Suck
Categories of people that like Hummer; Under nines. TLCB Elves. Conspiracy-theorising, ‘FREEDOM!’-yelling neanderthals. Middle-eastern oil sheiks. Idiots. This is a Hummer H2, and we absolutely love...
View ArticleMini Mechanics
The creations we feature here at The Lego Car Blog can – at times – become a bit ‘aesthetics over everything’. That’s entirely our fault, as we want images that look cool on a screen and that our...
View ArticleTowering Inferno
This is the NASA ‘Launch Umbilical Tower’, designed to send the world’s most powerful machine – the Saturn V rocket – into space, and carried by the world’s heaviest land vehicle. LEGO’s enormous...
View ArticleMan-ic Monday
From the world’s biggest land vehicle to one of the littlest, and the official World Record holder for the smallest road-legal production car ever made. The Peel P50 was built for just a few years in...
View ArticleSuperGreat
Unlike today’s other off-road truck post, this one certainly doesn’t have a bland name. The Mitsubishi Fuso SuperGreat FX 6×6 is an off-road military tow truck, depicted here in Technic Japanese Self...
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 ArticleThe Winningest Horse
Formula 1 hasn’t always been dulled by Mercedes-AMG’s utter dominance. Back in the early 2000s it was dulled by Scuderia Ferrari’s utter dominance, which peaked with this car; 2004’s imaginatively...
View ArticleBig Hero 6
This is a 1950s Berliet T100, a French-built, V12-powered 6×6 truck, with a gross weight of over 100 tons, and it was the largest truck in the world. Four T100s were built between 1957 and 1959, with...
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 ArticleTruckasaurus REXX
Whiiiir, crunch. Whiiiir, crunch. That’s not a good noise thought this TLCB Writer. A weary and well-worn trudge out of the office revealed the source, and more Elven carnage than we’ve experienced...
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 ArticleSuper Size Me
The Ford F150 is as American as a clown-based burger joint. However, unlike Ronald McDonald’s finest slices of cow*, it’s so enormous it isn’t available in TLCB’s home nation. It just wouldn’t fit. Of...
View ArticleVintage Erection
If the content of TLCB’s spam folder is to be believed, we’re in for a future of certain erectile disfunction. However, not all old things have trouble getting it up, as this unusual GAZ-AA ‘Tower...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s Also a Giant Piece of Earth Moving Equipment
Not a particularly catchy title, but accurate, as this ace mining truck is indeed constructed only from the parts found within the LEGO Technic 42114 Volvo Hauler set. Redeploying 42114’s ‘Powered-Up’...
View ArticleBug(gy) Squash
The Lego Car Blog Elves, as regular readers of this crumbling ruin of the internet will know, are not a peaceful bunch. If they find a vehicle that is capable of running over their colleagues, they...
View ArticleA Giant Red Digger
Things TLCB Elves like; Things with Guns. Things with Racing Stripes. Megan Fox (although she’s equipped with neither). Giant Red Diggers. Today is therefore a good day. This Giant Red Digger is the...
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