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Beige is Beautiful
Beige. The colour of hearing aids, old ladies’ bathrooms, and the interior walls of those with no imagination. And al...
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GT Four
Rumor has it that Toyota is in the final development phase of a new Celica, over two decades after the nameplate was ...
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Bus Boy
We’re travelling slowly through Westchester New York today, on a twenty-year-old Orion Industries V (05.505) bus. Ove...
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I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
The Lego Car Blog Elves are very happy today, seeing as they’re in their cage room watching Ghostbusters on an old TV...
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We’re Slammin’, and We Hope You like Slammin’ Too
We’re feeling loooow today, not in mood, but in stance, thanks to this beautiful air-bagged Peterbilt 389 truck and M...
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Old Money
We’re feeling so fancy today. This is a Bentley Mulsanne / Turbo R, and as we type this from TLCB Executive Washroom ...
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Driving Through the Death Star Trench
It’s still Star Wars Day, and if you think this post is the most tenuously-linked to the space-based saga yet and we’...
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Driver Inattention Detected
Of all of the EU-mandated ‘safety’ features that our European readers have to endure in their vehicles, the ‘driver a...
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Green Gran
We’re still in classic car territory here at The Lego Car Blog, which is fine by us; anything from years past is pref...
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Star Quality
We love an unpretentious workhorse here at The Lego Car Blog, and things don’t come more unpretentious and workhorsey...
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Winning Horse
Modern Formula 1 cars last just one season. But back in the 1970s Scuderia Ferrari created a car that lasted for six....
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Marlboro Men
We’re heading back to the turn of the decade today. No the one before that. And the one before that. Yes it’s the lat...
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Double Head
This bizarre machine is a 1984 DAF ‘Double-Head’, built to compete in the Paris-Dakar rally by Dutch driver Jan de Ro...
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Turbo Twin
The early years of turbocharging – characterised by chronic lag and spiky handling – were dominated by a few compani...
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Mining Cornwall
The Cornwall Peninsula in the very south of the United Kingdom is famous for its pasties, beaches, cider, and – at on...
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An Even Bigger Accident
As has been well documented on this website, Ford Mustangs crash. A lot. Thus Ford have given their seventh generatio...
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A V10 Tip
TLCB top tip; want a rear-wheel-drive Japanese V10-engined icon but can’t afford a Lexus LFA? Get yourself a 1970s Is...
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Lime Crush
It’s been a quiet week here at TLCB Towers. Elves have returned, creations have been published, and no-one’s been squ...
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DAF-ish
When is a DAF not a DAF? When it’s a GINAF. No, us neither, but this is indeed a GINAF, specifically a M3132-S 360 AT...
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Z Tune
This might look that Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34), but it’s actually way more special. Fitted with a carbon fibre bodywo...
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Stripes on the Streets
‘Street takeovers’ don’t happen in our home nation. Partly because we don’t have a grid system giving wide intersecti...
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A Proper Porsche
Porsche are in big trouble. Despite the success of their EVs (and perhaps because of it…), Porsche are currently unde...
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The SS
From one end General Motors’ cool spectrum (well, almost. There was the Chevrolet Matiz) to the other. This is the gl...
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Top G
The Lego Car Blog Elves like Lamborghinis and monster trucks and things with rocket launchers. Which means they’re pr...
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Peak Nineties Nissan
Japanese performance cars, and Nissan in particular, used to be on top of the world. With all-wheel-drive, all-wheel-...
