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In case someone was wondering what a chassis looks like without most of the yellow and red color coding: No other changes were made. See my earlier post in this thread with the parts I replaced. I have to say I don't like the suspension. The center shock is a little too short, so the smaller shocks are slightly precompressed. The result is that the car can tilt side to side. Also, the steering links are technically too short for the wishbones. The suspension travel is probably not big enough to matter, but the wheels turn slightly inwards when compressing the suspension.

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The proportions may be wrong, but I assume you understand that a photo taken from the side isn’t an exact representation of the proportions because photos have perspective, whereas a render is completely flat.

I strongly doubt that is the case. Even on the official marketing videos the doors don't open all the way if you don't open the trunk fast enough. https://www.instagram.com/p/DaPkMjjlUxC/ Balasz from Racingbrick also mentioned this in his review.

It looks like they listened to the feedback and came with a day 1 solution to the printed headlights.

To replace the 'color vomit' this is what I would change: Red parts to black (except 11214 and 89678, those would be DBG) Yellow parts to LBG (except 32072, because it would create confusion with the 5405) This would I believe be a great middleground between 'acceptable' color coding and esthetics. This should leave the chassis mostly black and gray. If the set was released 20 years ago this is how it would probably have been. The colorful gears and shifting drums are fine as they are. They are never seen, and with the amount of slightly different size gears it's probably quite helpful with building. You don't even really need to change all the black 2L axles to black. The vast majority will never be seen so they can just stay red. All of these parts are (I'm pretty sure) currently in production as well.

I believe it's quite simple why Technic doesn't succeed in these projects. Technic is its own system that is extremely popular by itself. But compared to everything else that is system based, it gets completely dwarfed. To give an analogy: It may be the largest slice of a pie, but the rest of the pie combined is still far larger.

Are those orange CV joints new?

There is even part of the gearbox behind the rear axle. I count at minimum 8 driving rings in this car. I’m curious as to whether all of these are required, I believe fans simplified the prior gearboxes within the first weeks of the set’s release.

I am guessing the engine cover opens the doors via a one-way linkage system. It does mention the doors can be opened separately. The video from RacingBrick shows this (timestamped around 4:00):

So the engine cover does open everything at once, but as I said: way too much backlash, they even have to help the doors open further

Bruno has denied that statement, as Tlego replied under a FB post in the official CaDA group:

It could very well be (purely speculation) that when the design started 4 years ago certain custom parts were not really an option then. But even so, I do spot some parts that don’t exist in the LEGO catalog. Also some panels which were originally made to circumvent patents, are used in ways that are not possible with LEGO. In the end all these brands are interlocking building bricks, it really should not be a surprise that these sets look like LEGO. Here are some real build photos (not mine): https://imgur.com/a/irM9Vaf

What a masterpiece! It is nice to see a car I regularly see on the road built in ’brick’ form. Congratulations on this design.

The dark red manual version of the AMG One looks nice. Even if mostly a recolor I like the color a lot more than LBG. I also see @astyanax credited, I guess he is responsible for the manual transition. I had to double check if that Alpine F1 car was even brick built. Even with the ‘custom’ parts it looks amazingly well sculpted.