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The LEGO Technic 8865 Test Car didn’t exactly bowl over our reviewer when we had one on test. However if you own a 8865 set (and a set of pliers to take it apart), you could turn it into this neat Dakar-esque off-road buggy by newcomer Tomas Rak, pictured here...
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The Future of Racing. Kinda.

The days of petrol-powered racing are numbered. As the world shifts away from fossil fuels, the need to race with them is declining also. But electric racers… er, let’s just say they don’t match internal combustion yet. Retaining the noise and spectacle of motorsport...
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Magnificent Seven

From one of the most extravagant vintage cars to one of the least. This is the Austin 7, so called because it had seven horsepower, and it was one of the most popular inter-war cars on the British market. Produced from the early 1920s until 1939, the 7 was less than...
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LEGO Technic H1 2024 | Set Previews

It’s time! After a period lost in space, and with the Elves that managed not to become German-Shepherd-snacks safely back at TLCB Towers, we can reveal the brand new for 2024 LEGO Technic line-up. And it’s such a good one… 42163 Heavy-Duty Bulldozer LEGO have released...
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Drove my Chevy to the Levy*

The end of the ’60s seemed to mark the death of the American Dream. Picked up by Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and Don McLean’s ‘American Pie’, he drove his Chevy to the levy, but the levy was dry. If Don was disillusioned by Americana in 1971, how much...