Firas Abu-Jaber's Lego Nissan Navara Dakar Rally Car

[DLuders]

On MOCpages, Firas Abu-Jaber ("peterabujaber" on YouTube) posted his LEGO Nissan Navara Dakar Rally 4x4. He wrote an extensive description and provided 33 pictures and a

. Since it has Lego "Octan" colors, he entered it into this month's Flickr LUGnuts challenge ("Octan Racing!"). Here is a quick synopsis:

"Here's my new model, the Nissan Navara rally Dakar edition. This model includes a working suspension and working steering, it's my first MOC with working suspension, also there's a Youtube video at the end showing the details, the chassis, the working suspension and steering, and the rolling crash test to show how tough this model is, hope you enjoy it, thank you.""

"Dakar Rally -- The Dakar Rally (or simply "The Dakar"; formerly known as "The Paris-Dakar" or "Paris to Dakar Rally") is an annual rally raid type of off-road automobile race....Most events since the inception in 1978 were from Paris, France, to Dakar, Senegal, but due to security threats in Mauritania which led to the cancellation of the 2008 rally, the 2009 Dakar Rally was run in South America (Argentina and Chile), the first time the race took place outside of Europe and Africa. It has stayed in South America from 2009 to the present (2011). The race is open to amateur and professional entries. Amateurs typically make up about eighty percent of the participants.

"Despite its name it is an off-road endurance race, called a rally-raid rather than a conventional rally — the terrain the competitors traverse is much tougher and the vehicles used are true off-road vehicles rather than the modified on-road vehicles used in rallies. Most of the competitive special sections are off-road, crossing dunes, mud, camel grass, rocks and erg among others. The distances of each stage covered vary from short distances up to 800–900 kilometres (500–560 mi) per day."

"Nissan Navara (Frontier) -- Nissan Frontier is the name for the D22 and D40 generations of Nissan pickup trucks in North, Central and South America and the Philippines. The line was started in 1998, and its immediate predecessor is the D21 Nissan Hardbody truck....Nissan was the pioneer of the Hardbody or Nissan Navara since 1986. The first was the D21, considered to be a small pick up. After more than 10 years with the D21, the second generation Navara was manufactured from 1998 and went until 2005 which was classed as a compact sized pick up. It was replaced with the bigger, taller, longer D40, which Nissan now considers to be a mid-size pick up truck."

[martinnygaard]

Excelent car.

i really like the way the three xtra wheels are attatched.

[Jurgen Krooshoop]

As I commented on his MOC-[age: this is an awesome model. Everythins is very good: the looks, the technical elements, the modular design. It's another great build from a true Car-Master.

[buddy]

This is an outstanding creation! It looks very accurate and has great functionality.

~buddy~

[grohl]

I saw it on Youtube first. Firas is one of my favourite car builders. And as always very good job on this.

[MarcusB]

This is AMAZING! I am very surprised that this thread only has 4 replies.

[Plastic Nurak]

The way I love car MOCs, a mixture of Technic and Model Team solutions . And Firas is ever one of the best builders .

It's an EB member, he could write here in person.

[Ralph_S]

This is AMAZING! I am very surprised that this thread only has 4 replies.

I reckon that's because few people ever bother to look at the Model Team creations and many of those that do will have already seen this on The Brothers Brick.

Cheers,

Ralph