This is Lego's life-size, record-breaking, 69mph Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear

We can all get on board with having a good gawp at a black Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear with orange accents… only, there’s something different about this ’Segg. It’s made almost entirely from Lego Technic elements. Around 327,000 of them.

It’s the model building team’s latest in a growing garage of life-sized car builds, which kicked off with a drivable 1:1 scale Bugatti Chiron build back in 2018. That car featured over a million tiny elements, zero glue and 2,304 Lego Power Functions motors for a mighty total of 5.2bhp. Bugatti’s famously fast test driver Andy Wallace donned his fireproof pants and got behind the wheel, managing a massive top speed of 12mph at Ehra-Lessien.

The brief for the Koenigsegg – which was unveiled alongside a smaller scale Sadair’s Spear kit that you can actually buy – was a little more ambitious. Not content with just being one of the pack, Christian von Koenigsegg wanted this to be the fastest full-size build yet. Of course he did.

“This was the most complex build in the least amount of time of all the Lego Technic cars,” Lego’s design lead Lubor Zelinka tells TG. “The brief called for a Lego Technic vehicle that could go very fast, so we set a target of 100kph (62mph). We started talking about it last summer, but we didn’t really begin work until October. The whole project was seven and a half months. “The other ask was to incorporate Koenigsegg’s famous Ghost Mode, so this is the first time we have had so many opening body panels on a full-size build. It’s not just a model anymore, it’s a vehicle.”

He’s not lying. Underneath is a bespoke metal chassis and an FIA-spec roll cage. There are proper Koenigsegg carbon wheels too, wrapped in Pirelli tyres, with actual suspension and motorsport grade disc brakes hiding behind the decorative Technic callipers. Sadly, the Spear’s 1,603bhp 5.0-litre twin turbo V8 was judged to be a little excessive. Instead, there’s a small electric motor driving the rear wheels, so while it’s aiming to go quicker than the McLaren P1 build from 2024 (which Lando Norris piloted to a heady 40mph at Silverstone), it’s hardly an EV hypercar to rival the Rimac Nevera.

Apparently up to 50 per cent of the pieces in a standard Technic set are little connectors, and the choice of black bodywork with black connectors for the Koenigsegg made the job of the builders even trickier than usual. Mansory’s beloved chopped carbon fibre has nothing on this finish though. And there are Easter eggs everywhere, says Zelinka: “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 wheelarch for a curved section of exhaust, and there’s another wheelarch from our C8 Corvette set on the brake callipers.”

With Ghost Mode activated the doors, bonnet and engine cover glide open gracefully and Zelinka gets to show off his team’s detailed replica of Koenigsegg’s Triplex suspension system. Turns out the gold cylinders used to mimic the Öhlins dampers are actually wheel rims from a Ninjago set.

The day after our visit to the factory where all Lego’s big builds take place - on a small industrial estate in Kladno, around 20 miles west of Prague in Czechia - this 1,800kg plastic hypercar set a blistering top speed of 111kph (69mph). Good grief. Just imagine being overtaken by one of these on the M6...