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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

I've actually built this one. Honestly, it looks worse, the proportions are not right and while all the functions are very impressive from an engineering standpoint, not all of them work. Check the CaDA topic, I did a sort of review in there. These kinds of cars can be made and delivered in any color combination you can put your mind to, as long as you pay https://www.autoevolution.com/news/mind-blowing-koenigsegg-jesko-attack-odin-sports-24-carat-gold-it-belongs-in-a-safe-231679.html If you ask me it's not really about what the real car looks like, gold panels would have given this car a much more premium look. And honestly I just associate dark tan with a car interior.

I think there would be way too much mechanical backlash for this. I think the engine cover opens manually and that exposes three levers; two for the doors and one for the frunk. Basically the same as the previous three but with the frunk added. Also, the box picture shows just the doors opened so I really doubt they would be connected to the engine cover and/or frunk. I have built mocs before where everything opens at once (coincidentally also a Koenigsegg) and the weight of the clamshells was just too much to reliably and efficiently open all at once.

I don’t think everything will open at once by opening the hood. I think, and the translated description implies it, opening the rear clamshell gives access to levers to open the doors (like the predecessors) and the frunk. It sounds like they are taking this from a mechanical/function perspective to a new level, rather than essentially just reskinning yet another Sian. Besides the P1 using the new gearbox elements they really have not made any significant changes.

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