Brickin’ Bronco B-Model
LEGO’s brand new Technic 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 Professional Line set is proving to be a veritable goldmine of parts. Despite only launching a few weeks ago, several superb 42177 B-Models have...
View ArticleThe Beast of Turin
Four cylinders, twenty-eight litres, 290hp, and many flames. Fiat’s incredible S76 – nicknamed ‘The Beast of Turin’ – was built to claim land speed records, thanks to that astonishing engine that was...
View ArticleRambo Lambo
Supercar manufacturers might sell more SUVs now than actual supercars, but their foray into the 4×4 market is actually nothing new. Because in the mid-’80s if you were an oil sheik you could be the...
View ArticleDouble-Bs
Today’s we have not one but two alternate builds. And they’re the same. This brilliant John Deere High-Speed Dozer is the work of previous bloggee M_longer, and has been constructed from two of LEGO’s...
View ArticlePut a Lid On It
This TLCB Writer is nearly at the point where he’s societally obliged to buy a Porsche Boxter. But what if you too are approaching middle-age and/or limited follicle coverage, but a convertible isn’t...
View ArticleNeed a Lift?
We love functions-packed creations here at The Lego Car Blog, and few this year have come packed with as many as Wiseman_2’s spectacular three-axle crane. Making their TLCB debut, Wiseman_2 has...
View ArticleI Like to Move It*
Technic vehicles are one of the reasons this backwater of the internet was created over a decade ago. Making things move is one of our favourite aspects of Technic, and today’s brilliant crane tipper...
View Article[Insert Tweet About Boyfriend]
The Fiat 500 might be very nearly as old as the car it’s pretending to be, but thousands of people still buy it each year in TLCB’s home nation and they all seem to be, um… girls of a certain type....
View ArticleHowo Wowo!
This is a SinoTruk Howo 8×4 tipper truck, and it’s incredible. OK, the real thing isn’t particularly, being just another generic-looking Chinese state-owned truck, but newcomer P McCatty’s Technic...
View ArticleThe Answer’s Always Miata
Well, if it’s not Eunos (Japan) or MX-5 (Europe). It is here at The Lego Car Blog too, as today’s post is this excellent Technic recreation of the first (NA) generation of Mazda’s iconic sports car....
View ArticleAlternate Godzilla
Neither Ford nor Nissan are renowned as exotic car brands, yet each has made a vehicle that has shot straight to the top of enthusiasts’ wish lists, in the form of the Ford GT and Nissan Skyline GT-R....
View ArticleThe Weird One
The Mercedes-Benz section of our A-Z of Lego Trucks is about 85% Unimog. A licensed LEGO set, alternates built from other LEGO sets, fire trucks, snow plows, tippers, cranes… there are nearly as many...
View ArticleDeere Wrangling
The LEGO Technic 42157 John Deere 948L-II set hasn’t borne many B-Models here at The Lego Car Blog to date. Just one in fact. Which is odd, as it does look like a rather good source of parts, and it...
View ArticleLight It Up
It’s the early-’80s, and computers have the power of a Casio wristwatch. But that didn’t stop programmer Kevin Flynn from being sucked inside one and having to fight his way out. Kinda like trying to...
View ArticleHere Comes the Sun*
Winter is coming here at The Lego Car Blog Towers. But whilst us North Northern Hemispherers are steeling ourselves for it getting dark by mid-afternoon and defrosting the car both before and after...
View ArticleMysterious Liking
There are some things that this TLCB Writer probably shouldn’t admit to liking. Made in Chelsea. His own farts. Nickelback. Star Wars Episode I. And, most embarrassingly of all, the Opel Frontera....
View ArticleZillie Smalls
The Lego Car Blog Elves have a well-publicised penchant for extreme violence. They’ve squashed, flattened, and smushed one-another via a variety of brick-built creations, and whilst they may be...
View ArticleCarry on Camping
It’s nearly Black Friday, that magical time of year when consumers banish any thoughts of Thanksgiving to fight in the streets over discounted electronics, and when we want to escape to the wilderness...
View ArticleTechnic Trials
Technic building can be difficult. In fact the comment we receive most into The Lego Car Blog Inbox (besides spam for crypto currencies obviously) is ‘Can I have building instructions?’. Well yes,...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42205 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray | Set Preview
It’s that time of year again, when a crack team of TLCB Elves is sent to sneak around The LEGO Company’s headquarters to find (and steal) the top secret imagery of next year’s Technic line-up. Of...
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