Lego has made a frankly absurd life-size, driveable version of the Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear from Technic parts. What’s more, Lego sent the Swedish hypercar – as well as Koenigsegg Test Driver Markus Lundh to the iconic Goodwood hill climb course in West Sussex, UK where Lundh managed to get it to 70mph/111km/h… well you didn’t expect megacar type speeds did you? It is made of Lego…
The real Sadair’s Spear hypercar currently holds the Goodwood production car record with a time of 47.14 seconds up the 1.16-mile hillclimb, set last year.
Made of 327,906 elements, the car weighs 1.8 tonnes including 400kg of Lego (there’s a real roll cage and seats in the car for example) and represents more than 9400 hours of work by the big build model team at Lego’s Kladno factory in Czechia. The model even replicates Koenigsegg’s iconic ‘ghost mode‘ which opens the trunk, hood and doors.
“Building at a scale changes everything” says Lubor Zelinka, the design manager of the project who was also responsible for the life-size Bugatti Chiron back in 2018 .
“Every detail becomes structural and fundamental. We had to rethink how we work, how we design with Lego Technic elements and how we combine precision, strength and flexibility all in one model. It’s doing something completely new from the ground up, something that has been unknown until then.”
The life-size model exists to because there’s a more sensibly-sized version of the car – the 1:8 scale Lego Technic Ultimate Car Concept Series Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, available in July. I went to Koenigsegg’s facility in Ängelholm, Sweden to see both the real and Technic cars as well as learn more about how Lego created the sets.
The 23in/59cm long model features 4104 Lego elements so should be quite a lengthy build itself. Lego senior model designer Kasper Rene Hansen had quite a few headaches adapting some of the real car’s quirks over an 18 month period, including the ‘ghost mode’ – which is functioning and even folds the wing mirrors in – and a 9 speed gearbox which needed to rotate at 40 degrees.
19 bespoke elements were introduced as a result including for the Triplex front and rear suspension. The car will even show what gear it is in. There’s working steering and a removable roof plus a realistic V8 engine, too.
The Koenigsegg and Lego teams even came up with a new black and orange colour scheme for both the model and the real car after the dark brown of the original Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear didn’t look great when translated into bricks.
“It was really an amazing project to work on,” said Hansen during the launch event for the new models. “The model took around one and a half years to develop from the beginning to the end. We had a really great and amazing collaboration together with the Koenigsegg team. We started off with the chassis, the gearbox… over the first half a year. Then we visited the headquarters here, bringing some models to showcase the ideas. From there, we had online meetings every third week throughout the next year until the finalized product. [We had] a lot of feedback and input along the way.”
The Lego Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar 42232 will be available for Lego Insiders Early Access from 1 July 2026, and for all from 4 July 2026, priced at $450/£400/€450.
Models in the Lego Technic Ultimate Car Concept Series:
- 2016: Porsche 911 GT3 RS (42056)
- 2018: Bugatti Chiron (42083)
- 2020: Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 (42115)
- 2022: Ferrari Daytona SP3 (42143)
- 2024: McLaren P1 (42172)
- 2026: Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear (42232)
Also read: I got a behind the scenes look at Lego’s fully drivable, life-sized F1 car collection
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