Last year, Koenigsegg Saidair’s Spear, driven by the brand’s official test driver, set the record in the reverse-course configuration of the Goodwood Hill course. Now the Swedish hypercar manufacturer has brought the laurels back with a life-sized LEGO Saidair Spear to break the record for the fastest brick-built car in the reverse configuration of the circuit.
The elusive hypercar limited to just 30 production units has got the 1:1 replica in LEGO form, courtesy of the Danish toy maker, who have impressed everyone with its life-sized version of the real cars. The one-off creation is built under the Ultimate Car Concept Series, which has seen the likes of Bugatti Chiron and Ferrari Monza SP1. This driveable LEGO Saidair’s Spear celebrates the release of the 1:8 LEGO Technic set of the hypercar consisting of intricate 4,104 pieces, which is ultimately for the 23.2 inches long, 5.9 inches tall, and 11.0 inches wide hypercar for display on the wall.
Designer: LEGO Group
Breaking the previous record of 31 mph set by the LEGO McLaren P1, the intimidating hypercar trundled at 69 mph, the winding course known for its unforgiving drivability. Much like the LEGO Ferrari 12Cilindri Spider which is powered by a naturally aspirated V12 engine, this has a piston-style V8 engine mated to a nine-speed sequential gearbox. That said the powerful engine is too much for the hypercar, so it gets a rear wheel-powered electric motor that thrusts it forward. Keeping the element of automotive engineering going, the car has a paddle-mounted steering wheel, Triplex suspension for the front and rear, and a cool rotary display showing the selected gear. It even gets the working Ghost mode that the real version touts. In this setting, activated with a button, the hypercar’s rear body section lifts up, those dihedral synchro-helix doors swing out automatically, and the mirrors retract flat.
The form factor is nothing short of jaw-dropping in deep black hue, as the full-size Koenigsegg is made up of 327,000 Lego Technic elements, taking up 9,400 man hours to carefully put together. According to LEGO, the highly detailed car took around 18 months to create, with some LEGO elements created specifically for the project. The all-black finish of the car was hard to achieve as the makers had to figure out crafting the connectors and bodywork. Underneath the car is a metal chassis and an FIA-certified roll cage to complete the details. Non LEGO elements on the car include the Koenigsegg carbon wheels wrapped in Pirelli tyres and motorsports grade disc brakes with the Technic callipers.
The four-wheeler weighs 1,800 kg in total, out of which 1,200 kg is just the dry engine weight. To make things interesting, the creation is loaded with easter eggs. As per Lego’s design lead Lubor Zelinka, who got in conversation with Top Gear, “Parts of the front headlights are little canopies from Star Wars ships. The rear lights use house or train windows. The brake lights are emergency lights from police vehicles. We’ve used part of a wheel arch for a curved section of exhaust, and there’s another wheel arch from our C8 Corvette set on the brake callipers.”
Although this LEGO hypercar isn’t going to be anyone’s play toy, no matter how much money you have, it can still be seen for real when it sets out for a global promotional tour.
