This life-size Lego McLaren P1 can hit almost 40MPH

That eclipses the 3,893 pieces that spell into gathering Lego’s 1:8-scale McLaren P1 model. The institution says the full-scale mentation utilized 393 types of Technic components, including 11 specifically manufactured for the replica. That would marque it hard to physique a transcript yourself, but you’d besides conflict to find the time. Lego says it took 6,134 hours to plan and program its P1 and 2,210 hours to assemble it.

Lego opted to physique with Technic components alternatively of its modular bricks arsenic it allowed the company’s designers to recreate the curves of the hypercar and incorporated immoderate flex into the P1 replica’s body, mimicking the show of the c fibre utilized to marque the existent thing.

The P1 replica isn’t wholly made from Lego. Underneath the assemblage is simply a alloy frame, and it rolls connected the aforesaid tires and wheels arsenic the existent happening truthful that it’s beardown capable to enactment a quality driver. There’s besides an electrical car artillery inside, but the P1 is powered by a full of 768 Lego electrical motors divided into 8 centrifugal packs to mimic the V8 motor successful the archetypal P1.

All of those motors enactment unneurotic to propel the 2,690-pound Lego replica — which is astir 385 pounds lighter than the existent happening — to a apical velocity of astir 40mph, according to Autocar. It’s not going to acceptable immoderate records, but McLaren F1 operator Lando Norris did ascent down the instrumentality and successfully thrust it astir a afloat thigh of the aforesaid Silverstone Circuit helium raced during the British Grand Prix.

This isn’t the archetypal clip Lego has attempted to super-size 1 of its hypercar models. In 2018, the institution created a full-scale replica of the Bugatti Chiron utilizing implicit a cardinal Lego Technic pieces. Although it weighed astir 1,400 pounds little than the existent Chiron, Lego’s mentation could lone muster a apical velocity of conscionable implicit 12mph, and it lacked the quality to steer, limiting wherever it could beryllium driven.