It is a bit of a bugbear for me to see that most cars on the road are white, black or the fantastic mix, grey (sometimes ‘silver’). I realise there are practical reasons for white and resale reasons for black and grey, but I wish there was more colour on the road. Everyone knows red cars are faster, right? So, why? Why? WHY, did Koenigsegg decide to offer their $ 3 million hypercar, the Koenigsegg Jesko Absolut, in light grey or black?!? And why did LEGO decide to pick exactly *this* model, and not another model in some cheerful colours, and then translate the black version to dark grey!? Who designed this; LEGO Batman?

At 801 pieces and AU$89.99/£46.99/US$49.99/€52.99 this is one of the mid-sized Technic sets and, as seems to have become the norm, is a car. I like Koenigsegg’s cars typically, they have an exotic space-ship style to them and it is nice to see what the Technic team could do with the shape, after we experienced the speed champions version in 2021.

When looking past the colour of this set, there is quite a nice build; there are a few nifty tricks used to capture the shape of the car, and the mechanisms remain easily visible once the car is finished, so nothing disappears completely during the build process.

LEGO generously provided this set for review, but all opinions are my own.

Box and build

The box shows a nice colourful background with a grey road in the foreground. Oh wait, there’s a car there as well. On the back is a picture of the actual vehicle with a few basic stats such as a top speed of 500+kph and 1600hp! Compared to the stats of the Lunar Roving vehicle (1hp and 8kph) we are clearly in an entirely different realm.

The box, surprisingly, contains 6 plastic (!) bags, a sticker sheet with a few small orange accents and the instruction book.

Digging into assembly the first bag gets us the base frame with 8 cylinder motor and an interesting mechanism; a sliding bracket connected to a rotating axle, which turns out to be the mechanism to support the scissor doors. The pistons in the engine are made with the ‘crank discs‘ that seem to become standard now for engines. As mentioned in our review of the Kawasaki Ninja, this is a pity because it does not capture the essence of a real crankshaft. For some reason the pistons are explicitly paired in the manual, where I would have expected an 8-cylinder engine to have a more distributed valve timing.

The next part adds seats, the front bumper, and the spoiler to the car. The front nose of the car is mounted with three pieces on top of each other to achieve the correct offset and angle; this is the kind of trick I would use when ‘doing it correctly’ felt too hard, so I am very pleased to see this technique appear in this set.

In the next few bags the sides and rear of the vehicle are added the the bonnet for the engine (at the back) is connected with a clever mechanism to allow it to stay up when opened, despite there being a bonnet stay in the engine bay. It enjoy being able to see the pistons when the hood is up; this may not be realistic but at least you can see your handiwork in action if you want.

When the doors are added I am confronted with a mistake in my build; the door mechanism for one of the doors is not entirely correct. You can see in the photos what one of the doors can open a bit too far, and can therefore also not close properly. When building this mechanism (in the first bag!) there is an alignment drawing to show how the pieces need to be aligned, but my gear was 1 tooth off which I did not see until the door was connected. Luckily the mechanisms was easily dissembled and reassembled properly, a luxury that large Technic sets often don’t provide.

Car complete

After adding the roof our car is complete. From some angles it looks quite good, and from others it doesn’t go further than a ‘meh’ for me.

The wheel cavity at the front is is too large and noticeable and looks like some parts are missing. [UPDATE] I mentioned that the wheel was hitting the wheel arch but it turned out I had the wheel mounted backwards. See photos with corrected wheel. The wheel does correctly move within the (very large) wheel arch.

So how about it?

The price of this set is decent for the build experience and size, but it just doesn’t do it for me. The shape is not captured in a way that I find appealing, and the dark grey, ARGH, why?!? The slight orange accents do nothing to get over how much the car looks like it has just been primed with base paint.

I give this set an arbitrary 2 out of 5 praise units, for the way the mechanisms are included and exposed in the set, but I would look elsewhere to get your car and/or your Technic fix.

This set goes on sale on August 1 2024, and has a recommended retail price of AU$89.99/£46.99/US$49.99/€52.99 This set was

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