This life-size Koenigsegg just became the fastest drive-able Lego car ever — $5m hypercar recreated from 327,000 Technic elements and sent down Goodwood Hill at 69mph

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  • Lego celebrates the Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear with life-size model
  • It is made from 327,906 Lego elements
  • A slightly less challenging 4,104-brick version is available to buy

Lego’s Technic sets might push the boundaries of what’s possible with a bunch of plastic bricks, but the company isn’t content with simply offering lifelike models of high performance cars for adults to painstakingly build on a damp weekend.

This week, the Danish toymaker decided to unleash a life-size version of its own 4,104- piece, 1:8 scale Technic Koenigsegg Sadair's Spear model — itself based on the real Koenigsegg that set a record at Goodwood’s famous hillclimb during last year’s Festival of Speed event.

It’s all very meta, but the 1:1 version managed to drive down arguably one of the world’s most famous residential driveways at a speed of 69mph with, you guessed it, the very same Koenigsegg test driver who set the...

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