Flight Path
Oh uh. Sci-fi. Or is it sky-fi? Or dieselpunk? It doesn’t really matter to be honest, as we don’t understand any of them. It also doesn’t matter because this wild looking ‘Sky Viper’ by Flickr’s Greg...
View ArticleSpace Punk
Fresh off the back of another example of our sci-fi incompetence, here’s more space-related overreach from TLCB staff. Built by Nick Trotta of Flickr, this cyberpunky spacecraft is so superbly...
View ArticleLook Here, Old Sport. What is Your Opinion of Me, Anyhow?
“It was a rich cream colour, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hatboxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes, and terraced with a labyrinth of windshields...
View ArticleThe Future of Racing. Kinda.
The days of petrol-powered racing are numbered. As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, the need to race with them is declining also. But electric racers… er, let’s just say they don’t match...
View ArticleWork of the Devil
Ferrari’s naming convention sucks. A collection of numbers, it’s almost Soviet in its unimagination. Which is probably because when they do pick a name, it’s properly stupid. Lamborghini on the other...
View ArticleYou’ve Received a Gift Car!
Not the Mazda Demio… Not the Mazda Demio… ‘2015 Mazda Demio’. Damnit!! A cycle of disappointment familiar to anyone who’s played ‘Gran Turismo Sport’. However today’s ‘gift car’ is not a 2015...
View ArticleOrange Squash
This incredibly low – and incredible orange – car is a 1972 McLaren M20, one of the stars of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (or Can-Am) racing series that ran from 1966 to 1974. With no limit on...
View ArticleOn Green… I’m Going for It
The immortal words of Dominic Toretto, back in 2001 when he was a common street-racing thief and not an international spy or whatever the hell he’s supposed to be now he’s ten movies in. Of course...
View ArticleChristmastime
How does Santa get around the whole world delivering toys on one night? He doesn’t of course. He’s magic, and it’s probably a year-round job. But if he did have to visit every house in one night...
View ArticleTake Me Home, Country Roads
We’re back! With the alcohol in our blood gradually being displaced by hazy memories and regret, The Lego Car Blog Elves – imprisoned over the holidays – have been released, and are keen to recommence...
View ArticleSabre-Rattling
McLaren have released more near-identical looking cars than even Porsche, despite only being around a sixth as many years. Cue another modern McLaren we’ve never heard of nor will ever see, the Sabre....
View ArticleThe Human Centipede
This TLCB Writer thought they might be still drunk this morning, because what it appeared one of the Elves brought back to the office was – and this is going to sound crazy – a giant train riding not...
View ArticleBananas for B-Pillars
We kick-off 2024 with an example of why LEGO is such a good toy… er, we mean highly sophisticated interlocking brick system. Cue Jonathan Elliott‘s superb Speed Champions scale Lamborghini Countach,...
View ArticleGassed-Up
This is the ‘Blasphemi’, a 1955 Chevrolet ‘gasser’ drag racer run in MotorTrend’s ‘Roadkill’ video series. Beautifully built in Lego form and perfectly presented, _Tiler‘s homage to Roadkill’s famous...
View ArticleAntidote
Despite what you’d think looking at the cars around TLCB Towers, you really don’t need a Range Rover to drive to the gym. Which is why we love the Suzuki Jimny. Small, light, and vastly more capable...
View ArticleThere’s Something In the Air*
This TLCB Writer has only flown American Airlines once. The aircraft looked beautiful, resplendent in brand new chrome paint, and stepping on board – well that was something else! And by something...
View ArticleOiled Pig
There are many famous racing liveries that have arisen from decades of motorsport sponsorship, most of which were for things so bad for you that their advertisement is now banned (like this, and this,...
View ArticleGreen Goddess
Citroen, makers of a dreary line-up of unimaginatively titled crossovers, were once something rather more. In fact it could be said that Citroen were once the most innovative car company in the world....
View ArticleThe Lynx Effect
This excellent 1:32 scale SH-14D Lynx helicopter was found by one of our Elves today. Built by Master MOCer Ralph Savelsberg aka Mad Physicist, the Lynx is constructed in Royal Netherlands Navy livery...
View ArticleGander at This Goose
As the long-suffering sci-fi fans who frequent this site will know, The Lego Car Blog Team are uniformly crap at understanding, explaining, or writing about spaceships. Fortunately today though, The...
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