How to Make a LEGO Car? Top 4 LEGO Car MOCs!
If there is one subject that LEGO creative minds have truly mastered, apart from Star Wars of course, it is cars made from small building bricks.
You can find countless examples on the internet, but we have picked 4 different categories of cars that we wanted to show you. We will add more vehicles to this list later on, in a future article, of course! 😉
That said, if you want to see more LEGO cars, we recommend our LEGO Cars section.
We have to admit that putting together an exhaustive list of original LEGO car creations seems complicated, but not impossible.
While we wait for that list, we advise you to buckle up, because we are about to shift into high gear!
LEGO Car MOC: Discover Amazing Models!
1) LEGO Ferrari MOC: The Ultimate Italian Sports Car!
Builder Angka has shared a quartet of LEGO models of the sports car brand Ferrari, with all the style of their real-world counterparts:
- Ferrari 328 GTS Nero
- Ferrari Mondial Cabriolet
- Ferrari 348 TS
- Ferrari 328 GTS
Just look at the beautiful lines of these 8-stud-wide builds. The combination of slopes / tiles and curved slopes gives them a real aerodynamic look. ✈️
Although their structures are similar, each model has unique design elements that deserve a close look.
Such as the LEGO strings and rubber bands used to imitate the seat belts, which are especially necessary in this kind of vehicle!
If you want to try building these models yourself, Angka offers a view of the small parts section by section to help you get started building and assembling one of these vehicles and make your own.
The design really takes advantage of the modularity of the sections and building bricks. We hope these models will inspire others to make their own changes to these already impressive cars.
In the 1930s, Enzo Ferrari teamed up with carmaker Alfa Romeo to make motor racing history. 🏎
Ferrari was not making cars yet, but their famous emblem, the black prancing horse on a yellow background, was used on the cars of the Ferrari / Alfa Romeo team.
One of the most famous Ferrari / Alfa cars was the 1934 P3, which won the 1935 German Grand Prix with Tazio Nuvolari at the wheel. Thanks to Pixeljunkie, the Ferrari team's P3 has been brought back to life in small LEGO bricks.
Pixeljunkie is a MOC builder whose work we featured in the article "LEGO Mercedes Benz".
Pixeljunkie showed creativity and skill in creating this excellent diorama packed with visual elements (a feast for the eyes!) featuring a fearless driver who stops in the woods to admire the local wildlife (and fix the P3). The car and the surrounding landscaping are gorgeous.
Like many of his other cars, Pixeljunkie places the Alfa in different scenes, and that is what we love: it is not just a car assembled from elements and building blocks taken from various LEGO toys / building sets. This diorama, and Pixeljunkie, tell a story!
2) LEGO Police Car MOC: Discover the Ford Crown Victoria!
If there is one car that stands out among the countless cars that popped up in the 1980s in the United States, it is the Ford Crown Victoria V8. 🚔
You have most likely seen it in movies like Beverly Hills Cop I and II (1984 / 1987), Men in Black (1997), or more recently in the Netflix series Stranger Things.
Its boxy look and its frequent use in movies and TV series, as well as by American law enforcement, turned this car into an icon of the '80s.
The reason we are talking about this car is that Er0l, a designer / MOC builder whose work we covered in the article "LEGO James Bond aka 007", created two models that recreate the lines of the Ford LTD Crown Victoria.
The first Ford Crown Victoria takes on the style of the car driven by Agent K and J in the first Men in Black movie. 👽
The car's styling is neat, no studs are visible and the design is minimalist, but effective. Effective, because a single glance at this model is enough for anyone to recognize this car!
You can also fit two minifigures in the cockpit, which can come in handy for a diorama.
Finally, the design of this vehicle itself is interesting: you can see that the use of modified 1x1 bricks along with tiles / slopes (1x1x2/3 and 1x2x2/3) gives this iconic car its "boxy" shape.
For the second Ford Crown Victoria, Erol reused the design of his previous creation / hot rod and made a few changes to the bodywork, mainly to the colors, but not only.
To give it a look closer to a classic American police car, he added a light bar on the roof, a printed 2x8 tile on the roof and a spotlight on the hood to spot the bad guys from far away!
You can certainly imagine that the colors of this vehicle are close to those of the police cars used by the Los Angeles Police Department. 🚨
The funniest detail on this second creation is definitely the Springfield Police logo (2x8 brick / tile) placed on each door of the car. Like the previous model, this car can fit one or two minifigure(s).
3) LEGO Citroen MOC: Meet a French Icon!
In 1947, carmaker Citroën launched its H Van. At the time, it was one of the craziest commercial vehicles on the market thanks to its uniquely angled front end, but also, and above all, thanks to its huge amount of space in the back.
Capturing this detail in LEGO bricks might have seemed quite daunting, but OutBricks pulled it off (and in miniature scale, no less!).
His version features the iconic corrugated body, and the front was cleverly recreated using 4x2 plates set at unusual angles.
Ice skates were also placed on the plates to form the Citroën brand emblem.
What makes OutBricks' build even more impressive is that he included working doors throughout this diorama. There is a sliding door on the side and folding doors at the back.
4) LEGO Lancia Stratos MOC: The Queen of Group B
Have you ever heard of the Lancia Stratos? A car created in the early 1970s to compete in rally competitions called Group 5 (the biggest rally group at the time).
The concept vehicle that inspired the Lancia Stratos rally car is the Lancia (Bertone) Stratos Zero (the car on the right in the image just below). ⬇️
The Stratos was equipped with a 1,584 cc V4 producing 115 horsepower. Designed by Marcello Gandini, the same designer behind the Lamborghini Countach and Miura, the Stratos concept was a development of the Alfa Romeo Carabo concept, designed by Bertone starting in 1968.
First revealed at the Turin Motor Show in October 1970, the Lancia Stratos HF prototype was a styling exercise for the designer Bertone. 🎨
So much for the car's history; now let's tackle the replica of this iconic vehicle. Created by builder Peter Blackert, the Stratos has all the defining features of the race car that inspired it.
Whether it is the bubble windshield (here, black 1x3 plates), the overall height of the chassis or the opening hood and trunk.
But the most interesting part is that Peter also gave the car a motor system, a drivetrain that lets you drive this real little rocket!
We hope you enjoyed this article! If you did, leave a comment. See you in the next article, MOC fans! 😉
