And you thought F1 cars were pretty amazing...
Tuesday 4 September 2018 10:12, UK
No, your eyes aren't deceiving you.
LEGO Technic really have delivered a full life-size and driveable model of the legendary Bugatti Chiron supercar!
In an astonishing illustration of imagination fused with inspiration and industry, the team at LEGO Technic put together over a million LEGO pieces to produce the car - unveiled at Monza at this weekend's Italian GP and live on Sky F1.
In the LEGO team's own words, the 'idea was to do the impossible'.
And achieve it they did, with the impossible becoming not just possible but reality.
A bit of old-fashioned hard graft came in handy too: the car design and build took over a year and an estimated 13,000 hours in development and construction.
The stunning result, however, proves the effort was worthwhile.
The car consists of over one million LEGO pieces with over 2000 LEGO power function motors combining to give enough grunt for acceleration over 20kph.
The car could, in fact, go even quicker. But the team behind the design opted, understandably, to play safe with their first-ever life-size car.
And just in case you were wondering…
Not a single drop of glue was used to assemble the car!
The LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron supercar in numbers
Over 1,000,000 LEGO elements in total
339 types of LEGO TECHNIC elements used
Total weight: 1500 kg
2,304 LEGO Power Function Motors
13,438-man hours used on development and construction
