Every Lego Car, Ever*

From Alfa Romeo to Volvo, almost every major car manufacturer (and a lot of minor ones too) have seen their vehicles recreated in Danish plastic.

Thousands of Lego cars have appeared here at The Lego Car Blog over the last decade, with hundreds of trucks and motorcycles joining them too.

Which means if you’ve ever wondered ‘I wish there was a Lego version of my car…’, there probably is. And it can be found in our enormous A-Z of fifty car manufacturers, where you can find the biggest and best archive of Lego cars, sorted by the badge on the hood, anywhere in the world.

Find the complete A-Z of Lego Cars here

(plus Trucks and Motorcycles)

*Well, all the good ones.

Printed Portals

It’s not a purist day here at TLCB, as we follow four 3D-printed wheels with four more. And a canvas roof. And – most impressively – four exquisitely-made custom portal axles with reduction gears. Those gears are Technic, but the cases in which they are contained are bespoke and beautifully engineered by previous bloggee Michael Kulakov (aka Michael217), who has fitted them to his spectacular fully remote controlled Hummer H1.

LEGO Power Functions L Motors are combined with a third-party Geekservo motor to steer, with the model featuring all-wheel-drive, fully independent suspension, a detailed engine and interior, plus opening doors, hood and tailgate, alongside the aforementioned custom componentry.

Beautiful imagery accompanies Michael’s phenomenal creation, with lots more of the model to see at both his ‘Hummer H1’ Flickr album and at the Eurobricks discussion forum. Click the links above to take a look, and to see the unique engineering deployed in its making.

Enter the Dragon

Is Godzilla a lizard? Probably. We’re not up to speed on Japanese myths. But we do know that a lizard with wings is a dragon. Unless it’s a wyvern. Which actually Godzilla would be if it did have wings. And then the title wouldn’t work. We digress, this is a Nissan GT-R (R35) – a car nicknamed ‘Godzilla’ – and this one has wings.

They’re fitted – along with some marvellous 3D-printed Advan wheels – by builtbydavedesigns, who’s taken inspiration from Nismo’s wild GT-R GT3 racers. Opening doors, a detailed interior, and a superbly replicated engine bay also feature, and you can take a closer look at Dave’s beautifully presented dragon at his Flickr album via the link above.

Cosmic Craning

Are cranes required in space? There’s no gravity… We’re a car blog so we won’t think about that too deeply and instead revel in the deep coolness of Ivan Martynov‘s ‘RS11200 Space Craft Type’. Lift something science-fictiony via the link above!

The Lego Boxcar Blog

We’re switching asphalt for rails today, thanks to Pieter Post and these utterly beautiful turn-of-the-century boxcars. Almost 50,000 G10 boxcars such as these were in use across Germany before the First World War, when they transported pretty much everything across the country. The two wonderfully created examples shown here join a host of others, and you can see more of Pieter’s exquisite brick-built freight cars on Flickr. Click the link above to take a look.

Turn Right to Go Left

Wait, haven’t we featured this Hudson Hornet already? Well, yes…. but we’ve all been waiting for it to get stickers! Flickr’s SFH_Bricks has now done just that, turning his previously blogged Hudson into the NASCAR that made it so famous. More specifically SFH has created ‘Doc. Hudson’, the Disney Pixar ‘Cars’ movie character that paid homage to that most iconic of NASCAR racers. The beautifully replicated decals come courtesy of Brickstickershop, building instructions are available, and you can turn right to go left via the link above.

Knuckledragger

No we’re not talking about ‘Immigration and Customs Enforcement’ officers again, but rather this utterly splendid Volvo FH 8×4 truck, complete with a rear-mounted Fassi knuckleboom crane. Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer and regular bloggee Ralph Savelsberg, the model recreates a truck in use by British heavy haulage firm ‘Rawcliffe and Sons’, with accurate decals replicating the livery of its real-world counterpart. Brick-built outriggers and posable four-wheel steering also feature, and you can drag your knuckles over to Ralph’s photostream for more superb imagery via the link above.

All My Circuits

LEGO’s Power Functions and Control+ components are excellent for bringing vehicles to life. Third-party BuWizz and SBrick go even further, with more power and programmable control, and hundreds of creations have appeared here over the years powered by their components. But the drawback with all of the above is, as with your Mom, size.

Too big for many models, it means remote control is reserved for only larger creations. But not today, because this dinky 7-wide Mercedes-Benz Actros 6×4 truck is fully remote controlled!

Powered by a Circuit Cube Hub hidden in the cab, there’s a tiny drive motor – just three studs long – and a servo to steer. What’s more, it’s maker Ts_ has included drive to all four wheels, as per the real truck.

Able to pull a sizeable three-axle trailer, there’s more of Ts_’s remote control Actros to see at the Eurobricks forum, including an image of how the third-party electronics fit within it. Click the link above to peek inside.

Special Weapons And Tactics

When America’s government need highly trained police officers to go into the most dangerous situations, they call for S.W.A.T, or ‘Special Weapons And Tactics’.

And when they need ill-trained thugs to shoot an unarmed nurse outnumbered 8:1 ten times, they call for ICE.

We’ll stick with the former today, firstly because we have this awesome Chevy P30 S.W.A.T van straight outta Gotham City, and secondly because if S.W.A.T are here we’re less likely to get shot by Immigration & Customs Enforcement.

This splendid brick-built version of the police units trained to do things properly comes from previous bloggee Sam Andreas, and you can join them on the streets of Gotham via the link above. Which has got to be safer than being on the actual streets of America when ICE are around…

How to Get Your Model Featured at TLCB…

…and other Lego sites too.

It’s been a quiet few days here at The Lego car Blog, during which time the mythical Elves we use to scour the web for the best Lego vehicles have returned zilch, nada, nothing. Boo.

But have you ever wondered ‘How do I get my model featured on The Lego Car Blog?’. Well this post is for you!

Lego Barn Find Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix

1. Help the Elves to find you. Our Elves search far and wide for the best Lego vehicles on the web, and their favourite haunts are Flickr, Eurobricks (specifically the Technic & Model Team forum), and Bricksafe. They don’t visit social media sites though, because a) social media is poison, and b) underscoring the whole ‘poison’ thing, social media platforms usually require activating an account to view images, which means we can’t link our readers to them. We’d therefore really encourage you to upload your creations to a free-to-view platform like those listed above, even if you’re on social media sites too.

2. Follow, but not too closely… If you want to increase your chances of getting noticed, then check out the groups we follow and maybe join them yourself, and/or follow us (we’re on Flickr and Eurobricks under our site name). However please don’t message us saying ‘Please blog my creation’, nor add images to our Flickr group that haven’t been featured here. If your work is good enough, and meets our criteria, that’s enough : )

Lego Photography Studio

3. Meet the Criteria. All the main Lego sites will likely look for similar things in the models they feature; a great model, well presented, with high quality imagery. Here at The Lego Car Blog we also add the aforementioned free-to-view accessibility, and the need for the model to be (or feature) a vehicle. You can find our full criteria by clicking these words.

4. Help us tell a story. A model that’s a little unusual may stand a greater chance of appearing, as it allows us to say something new. We like weird, probably because we are ourselves. A few one-off vehicles (like the one pictured above) and have even drawn attention here from their real-world owners.

And that’s it! Be visible in a free-to-view place, join some Lego vehicle groups and discussions, take care with presentation, and try to build something unique. Follow these steps and one of TLCB Elves may return to our office clutching your creation in their claws. We hope they do!

Swingin’

Neither boxing, 1940s jazz music, nor keys-in-a-bowl, today’s creation is this excellent – and rather unusual – swingloader.

Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer thirdwigg, this mini front-loader can pivot its bucket arm to allow it to more easily off-load the contents, with its manoeuvrability further aided by all-wheel steering.

The bucket swing, elevation, tilt, and that all-wheel-steering are all mechanically operated, and you can get into the swing of things at thirdwigg’s ‘Swing Loader and Dumper’ album on Flickr. Click the link above to go swingin’.

Anonymous Adventure

Communism seemed to ban, amongst others things, inventive vehicle names, which all seemed to be a collection of numbers and letters. Which makes titling a post about one of them rather tricky, but no matter because the model is rather lovely.

It’s a UAZ 469B as built by PigletCiamek, and it’s also got a spicy back-story too, involving explorers and a rocket-launcher. Join the anonymously-named off-roader on an adventure in the desert via the link above.

Insert Hippy

We maintain that the scariest vehicle – other than a government-registered SUV in Minneapolis of course – is the Volkswagen Transporter camper, what with them being almost exclusively driven by top-knot wearing, ethnic peace crisp eating, alternative lifestyle evangelists. And now that we’ve successfully antagonised both the hard-right and hard-left in one sentence (there’s no bias here!), on to the model!

This neat Volkswagen ‘T3’ camper comes from Flickr’s HCKP13, who’s captured the ’80s bus brilliantly in brick form. There’s more of the model to see at HCKP13’s photostream, and you can head to a parking lot outside Starbucks to steal the free WiFi whilst bemoaning capitalism via the link above!

Matt’s Off Road Recovery

There’s a certain segment of the off-roading community who like to intentionally get stuck, just so they can winch themselves out again. Which to us feels like deliberately getting fat so that you can join Weight Watchers. But it nevertheless explains why ‘Matt’s Off Road Recovery‘ has over two million YouTube subscribers. Because when someone is really stuck, intentionally or otherwise, they’ll need this…

‘This’ is Matt’s all-wheel-drive, all-wheel-steered hot rod wrecker, as faithfully recreated here by Technic engineering genius Anto. Staying true to the unique real-world off-road tow-truck, Anto’s model features all-wheel-drive and all-wheel-steering (with three selectable steering modes, as per one of our favourite ever LEGO Technic sets), a working V8 piston engine, immense multi-link live-axle suspension, opening doors, toolboxes and hood, plus no less than five working winches.

It’s a hugely impressive replica of a fantastic one-off real-world vehicle, with loads more to see – including engineering diagrams and over forty superbly presented images – at both the Eurobricks forum and Anto’s ‘Matt’s Off Road Recovery Heavy Wrecker’ album on Flickr. Get stuck in via the links above, plus you can watch this amazing model in action via the video below.

YouTube Video

The Lego Multicar Blog

This strange looking device is an IFA Multicar M25, a small cab-over truck built in East Germany designed to perform numerous jobs. This one comes from previous bloggee DamianPLE (aka damjan97PL) who has fitted it with motorised drive, steering, and tipper, all controlled remotely via a third-party SBrick.

There’s also a tilting cab, under which sits a working four-cylinder piston engine, opening doors, and a detailed interior too, with more to see – including a video of the Multicar in action – at the Eurobricks forum. A gallery of over two-dozen images is also available to view on Bricksafe, and you can find both via the links above.