42226 BMW M4 GT3 EVO

[R0Sch]

What is it about y'all being excited about an 89 cent gear so much? Just buy it from B&P's. 1/3 of this "good parts pack" is just 2 cent pins anyway.

[gyenesvi]

38 minutes ago, R0Sch said:

What is it about y'all being excited about an 89 cent gear so much? Just buy it from B&P's. 1/3 of this "good parts pack" is just 2 cent pins anyway.

Exactly this, I don't get it either when people get excited about a set having a diff. I have so many diff parts just from all the sets, they take up a lot of storage space.

I'd say this is even bad as a parts pack. You get just 1 from many parts in a given color, just a single side from panels that are asymmetric. Not too useful. The only utility is the existence of some recolors.

Besides all that, it looks really ugly. Not only is it like broken china because of the usual panel discontinuities, on top of that almost every part is a different color, and where not, it has stickers that break even the unicolor surface. Not exactly good source material for technic paneling..

Edited December 1, 2025 by gyenesvi

[SNIPE]

44 minutes ago, R0Sch said:

What is it about y'all being excited about an 89 cent gear so much? Just buy it from B&P's. 1/3 of this "good parts pack" is just 2 cent pins anyway.

Just because it's hardly in any set so I wont want it to get discontinued any time soon.

[Auroralampinen]

Offical page is up:). 

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/bmw-m4-gt3-evo-race-car-42226

[Auroralampinen]

One new picture found:). 

From front on view, this look pretty good with nice aggresive shaping and angles:). 

[Auroralampinen]

Here is the 42226 rear end picture:). 

[thekoRngear]

The back looks a bit too crude for my eyes

[Zerobricks]

Are those 45 degree 3x2 panels in blue in the rear holding the spoiler?

[SNIPE]

16 hours ago, Zerobricks said:

Are those 45 degree 3x2 panels in blue in the rear holding the spoiler?

I believe so

[Auroralampinen]

Ok, interesting, the 42226 probably is the first car transporter gang car with thinner wheels on the back. Or the builder kid doesn't know what he is doing;). 

[1gor]

On 1/22/2026 at 11:38 AM, Auroralampinen said:

Ok, interesting, the 42226 probably is the first car transporter gang car with thinner wheels on the back. Or the builder kid doesn't know what he is doing;). 

 

It could be just mistake during build...and wrong photo published...that's all

Edited February 8 by 1gor

[Zerobricks]

40 minutes ago, Auroralampinen said:

Ok, interesting, the 42226 probably is the first car transporter gang car with thinner wheels on the back. Or the builder kid doesn't know what he is doing;). 

 

It literally has wide tires on the photo of the rear. It's just marketing doing the usual...

[roeltheworld]

Would love to see what an all black colour swap would do to the look. 

[Stereo]

The 42093 and car that came on the Transporter both used small tires all around.  I suppose not since then.

[mpj]

By the way, the look of the thinner wheels is better than the wider one in my opinion, because the rims are flat on the outer side, not recessed.

[SNIPE]

Here's a short promo video

There are 2 black half bushes securing the blue 11455. Front wheels use 4L axle with stop, rear uses the new upcoming 4.5L axles. I wonder what the red 24 tooth clutch gear is for?

Edited February 18 by SNIPE

[Ngoc Nguyen]

4 hours ago, SNIPE said:

I wonder what the red 24 tooth clutch gear is for?

At 0:17 you can see that the steering axle is off to the passenger's side, so my guess is that the 24z clutch gear helps the steering transmission goes from that side through the drive axle and up to a center driveshaft.

[mahjqa]

14 hours ago, SNIPE said:

Here's a short promo video

I wonder if the cams for the cylinders are properly set up at 0:48 . There are 4 possible cam positions, you'd think they'd place all of them out of sync. 

[gyenesvi]

1 hour ago, mahjqa said:

I wonder if the cams for the cylinders are properly set up at 0:48 . There are 4 possible cam positions, you'd think they'd place all of them out of sync. 

Just what I thought, wouldn't be surprised if it's not built properly.

[Ngoc Nguyen]

Hi everyone, this is Two-Face from RacingBrick 

 

@kbalage Can you check if the curved panels above the front wheels are 3x9 or 3x7? If 3x7 then they are new.

Edited February 20 by Ngoc Nguyen

[kbalage]

21 minutes ago, Ngoc Nguyen said:

 Can you check if the curved panels above the front wheels are 3x9 or 3x7? If 3x7 then they are new.

3x9, you can find the part list in the video this time :)

[Timorzelorzworz]

1 hour ago, kbalage said:

3x9, you can find the part list in the video this time :)

Excellent. So it fits between the new 9er panels from the Rexy Porsche. 

[Jundis]

Maybe it is just me, but I find this one ridiculously ugly... without stickes and even with I couldn't get what brand it was. Only the grill seems to remind me of a BMW. The rest is generic.

[jorgeopesi]

Epic new piece, very useful and we all have many, I have already made10 for myself, A lot of front drive axles can be done better with the new axle.

[Auroralampinen]

5 hours ago, Jundis said:

Maybe it is just me, but I find this one ridiculously ugly... without stickes and even with I couldn't get what brand it was. Only the grill seems to remind me of a BMW. The rest is generic.

I think this being really ugly too. But when i saw the racingbrick's review. It wasn't that bad in real life. But it's still a bit ugly:).