LEGO Builds a Life-Size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar That Hits 69 MPH

Collaboration between LEGO and Koenigsegg built a vehicle that turns heads for all the right reasons. The two companies created a full-scale version of the Sadair’s Spear using LEGO Technic pieces, and the finished machine drives under its own power on real roads and courses.

Over 327,906 unique components went into this massive effort, which resulted in an automobile weighing a whopping 1800 kilos, despite the fact that the bricks themselves only accounted for about 400 kg. The long and laborious procedure came to a conclusion after almost 9,400 hours of work, when the team gave their approval and declared it ready for testing.

The entire car is built from the ground up on a lightweight body made of LEGO Technic pieces, while a custom-made chassis underneath handles all structural stresses and houses the electric motor and complex mechanisms that bring this cool car to life, and then there’s that one show-stopping feature we can’t get enough of. The car has a working Ghost Mode, a trick that the real hypercar does as well, in which the rear body portion lifts up, the dihedral synchro-helix doors swing out on their own, and the mirrors fold flat.

The next challenge came on the Goodwood hillclimb track in the United Kingdom. Markus Lundh, the test driver, drove the brick-built automobile up the famed incline in reverse configuration, reaching a high speed of 111 kilometers per hour, or 69 miles per hour in the United States. This figure more than twice the previous record for the fastest drivable LEGO car manufactured by the LEGO Group.

Markus said he had a great time driving the thing; it reminded him of the time he got the Sadair’s Spear to the top of that hill the year before, but when he took the LEGO version up, he was particularly impressed with the engineering that the Technic team did. The massive life-size creation corresponds with a new official 1:8 scale LEGO Technic model of the same car, which has 4,104 pieces and reproduces many of the same features, but at a scale that allows it to be displayed on a desk or shelf. The smaller counterpart also includes a working Ghost Mode sequence, a detailed V8 engine with moving parts, a 9-speed transmission that moves, and suspension at both ends.