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One for the yuppies
As ’80s as red braces and house-brick sized mobiles Being too young to remember the ’80s all I have to go on are films like Working Girl and Top Gun, which lead me to believe everyone had ridiculous...
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More Porschery
The coolest racing sponsorship ever? Discuss. Malte Dorowski is possibly the best vehicle builder in the Lego Community today. His work offers a level of detail that we’d just not seen in bricks...
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Twin Turbo Daf
We want to know where VFRacing gets his stickers from! Discovered on the Eurobricks Forum, and resplendent in Daf Racing colours complete with all 729 sponsors, this Dakar Rally Truck by VFRacingTeam...
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Biggie Smalls
Biggie… A double post today, from both ends of the scale spectrum. Here at The Lego Car Blog we appreciate models of all sizes; our Elves return to the office with a variety of vehicles, from tiny...
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Civic Duty
Cookin’ Rice The Honda Civic, sold new to grannies to go to the shops in once a week, then bought second hand by boy racers due to its high power / low insurance combination, is probably the street car...
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Porsche Beater
Nissan GTP ZX Turbo We’ve featured a lot of Porsches here at The Lego Car Blog. They’re a popular choice for Lego builders, and why not? After all, they are the most successful sports car racing brand...
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Turbo Tuesday
It’s our second ‘T is for Tuesday’ post (let’s see how long we can string this out!), and this ‘T’ is for ‘Turbo’ – a word synonymous with fast cars. Back in the 1970s turbo-chargers on road cars were...
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Martini Porsche Picture Special
Over the past week The Lego Car Blog has been a bit more ‘Truck’ than ‘Car’. Today we return to our job description with a blog post Special to celebrate one of the team’s favourite builders, the...
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Featured TFOL: Davanchi M
It’s been a while since we’ve featured a… er, Featured TFOL, here at The Lego Car Blog. This is mostly because we’d forgotten about it as a category, but also because many TFOL-created vehicles are...
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Turbo!
Formula 1 might finally have got with the times and moved to turbo-charged engines, but it’s not actually the first time forced-induction has been used in Formula 1 racing. Turbo-charging first...
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Blow Me
We’re not fans of Eastern Europe’s communist automotive efforts. Like, at all. But if there’s proof that forced induction, wide arches, and racing stripes can make anything cool, this is it. Raphael...
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Twin Turbocharged Toyota T-Top
We have a well documented love of things with racing stripes here at TLCB. We also like turbos. Big ones that go ‘fushififish’ off-throttle. This creation is therefore ticking all of our boxes as it...
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Turbo Triple
Turbocharged three-cylinder engines are all the rage at the moment, thanks to tightening emissions regulations, high fuel prices, and the advancement of forced induction technology. Ford, Volkswagen,...
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Godzilla’s Grandad
Nissan’s current GT-R (previously called the ‘Skyline’) is a seriously impressive supercar killer. But we don’t particularly desire it. We’d like to have a go, sure – but to own… it’s just a bit…...
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Downsizing
America. Bigger is better. Guns, meals (and waistlines) and – of course – cars. But what if there’s another way? It was actually America, remarkably, that put the first turbo-charged production car on...
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For Your Eyes Only
The James Bond movie franchise is back to its very best at the moment, being dark, slightly brutal and a bit lonely. Which is exactly as it should be. In the late ’70s to early ’80s though, the movies...
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A Tiny Turbo
Nope, not an annoyingly generic 4-wide Lego creation, but Renault’s remarkable early ’80s R5 Turbo. Downsized turbocharged engines are all the rage now, but Renault had the formula nailed more than...
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Turbeot
TLCB has a long-standing apathy for Peugeot, but it hasn’t always made unreliable, ugly euroboxes. Back in the 1980s Peugeot made some seriously cool cars, and this is one of their highlights; the...
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Group C Finale
In the 1980s the World Rally Championship was at its most spectacular. Space-framed, wildly unstable and sometimes downright dangerous all-wheel-drive monsters raced through the world’s forests and...
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Technic Turbo
If there’s one car that sums up the wide-boy 1980s best, it could well be this – the Porsche 911 Turbo. We must confess we’re not really fans of the 930-series 911 Turbo. Compared to the elegance of...
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