Volvo²
No this time we’re not making classic Volvo jokes. Because today’s post is a Volvo atop another Volvo, for some kind of Volvo². This phenomenal Volvo Aero truck is the work of MCD, and it might be –...
View ArticleMarble Run
This skeletal-looking creation is a Mack Marble trial truck, and it comes from regular bloggee and TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg, who has eschewed his usual all-mechanical approach for a suite of Power...
View ArticleNot a Bad Way to Spend $10,000
The infamous words of Dominic Toretto, after lifting the hood of Brian O’Conner’s modified Mitsubishi Eclipse, and listing several things you wouldn’t be able to see by lifting the hood. A ludicrous...
View ArticleDuke 690
LEGO’s expanding range of 1:5 scale Technic motorcycle sets is not only allowing fans to build some of the world’s best bikes in brick form, it’s also furnishing the Lego Community with a plethora of...
View ArticleOff-Road Alternative
The excellent LEGO Technic 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 set has successfully brought one of the market’s best known 4x4s to bedroom floors (or more likely Dads’ shelves) everywhere. But what if you like...
View ArticleThe Hook
It’s New Year’s Day, and there’s already a hooker in the office. Nope, we haven’t gone ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ for 2025 (we’re still very much a ropey Lego blog rather than a stock market scam); this...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Ford GT
The most common basis for hot rods are Fords. Due to their abundance in America in the 1920s-’40s, all manner of blue ovals have been hot rodded; Model-Ts, Model-As, ‘Tudors‘, ‘5-Windows‘ and...
View ArticleThe Alternative
Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re big fans of up-cycling. Repurposing one thing into another thing is both advantageous to the wallet, and means that one fewer new thing has had to be made, usually by...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk the Arocs!
The Technic 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs is one of the highest rated LEGO sets of all time. Now a decade old (where did that time go?), the 2015 flagship united Power Functions and pneumatics into one of...
View ArticleGreen Space
Remote control all-wheel-drive, gearbox operation, steering, and all-wheel suspension, are features normally associated with large Technic Supercars with thousands of parts. Today however, they’re all...
View ArticleSkid Marks
The Lego Car Blog Elves – being simple creatures – see an orange digger, and they like it. We, The Lego Car Blog Staff, are far more sophisticated; the Elves brought us an orange digger, and we liked...
View ArticleBlue Blood
The Lego Car Blog Elves have been peaceful of late. We have Febrovery to thank for that, what with there being a regular supply of whimsical space-based vehicles arriving at TLCB Towers, none of which...
View ArticleAdding an ‘R’
If you’re from the Playstation Generation, this is the coolest car ever made. Apart from maybe a Supra. Constructed by Flickr’s Michał Wolski (aka Porsche96), this Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 is built only...
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 ArticleTrash Talk
Humans make a lot of trash. In the United States alone, 146 million tons of waste goes into landfill every year, including two-thirds of all recyclable material. Sigh. Strangely, considering almost 50...
View ArticleCruise Control
Cruiseliners. Giant floating shopping malls filled with the terrifically fat, the terminally elderly, or the terrifically fat and terminally elderly. And if you’re reading this thinking ‘But I went on...
View ArticleDump Day
It’s two days after ‘Liberation Day’, when the enormous global tariffs enacted by the Trump administration bite. And bit they are, as investors are dumping stocks at the fastest rate since 2020. Cue...
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...
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