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September 7th in Aus edit: I fell this is pretty common here with all the 1:8 supercar releases

Yeah I was a bit disappointed when I saw that the connection was 'broken' in the middle. But even if it was fixed my experience with these types of suspension in MOCs is that it does indeed do next to nothing functionality wise. It's mainly for the looks I think, and it's definitely an improvement in the right direction that they even tried to add it all.

This indeed looks a lot better. I think some people are quick to assume that the opposite of colour coding/vomit is an all black chassis. But I think you can make a chassis with black/LBG/DBG that looks clean and is also easy to put together. Then if you must use another colour to make something clearer use the colours used in the bodywork. In this case if you used tan or dark orange, it wouldn't look so bad because it at least matches the overall colour scheme - no need to use red/lime/yellow or whatever. Other design choices also make it seem like they're intentionally trying to add blue pins into the model. Take the one in the upper a-pillar for example: which could easily be avoided by replacing the 2 thin liftarms (++) to a (+O) liftarm. Less pieces as well.

There abouts. It’s interesting because if you filter by new cars only then you have roughly 34,500 autos to 675 manuals for sale. Which is closer to 98%-2%. Suggesting that the manual is slower disappearing. I never learnt how to drive a manual, my dad had an auto when I was learning to drive. It’s on my bucket list of things to do, but more so I actually have the ability to do so if needed - not because I see myself owning a manual car any time soon.

To give you some idea: currently on Carsales Australia there are just under 200,000 autos for sale and 17,500 manuals.

@JesseNight Sounds good, enjoy the journey and I look forward to seeing the finished product 👍🏼 The photos section on rebrickable is always handy, I always have a good look if there’s a MOC I’m interested in building. Well both my earlier cars broke down and were in the scrap yard well before that was an issue. Current car is more of a crimson darker red and is much more reliable. So hopefully won’t have either issue haha

@JesseNight Thanks! Every car I've had irl has been red, not necessarily by choice though, just the way its worked out haha. I really like that white/black/blue speck. Someone on rebrickable made one similar. I have another WIP model with an orange interior so I can say it does go well with the blue on the shelf. Although you can't really go wrong with red either, I've seen some cool white, red, black specs as well. Would love to see if you come up with anything for the headlights! I 100% agree with you, I couldn't figure anything out that met both requirements which is why we just offered 2 versions and the builder could pick.

Awesome, hope you enjoy it and it lives up to expectations! Nice pick up with the details on the luggage colours. For steps 41 and 51, I actually haven't tried. But I know Astyanax got his model apart without any apparent difficulties, he was quite aware of those sort of things during the instruction making process. As for colours, white was only buildable with 3rd party/painted parts. I'm not sure if that's the route you're going down, but it does open up a lot more possibilities. At the time of the instructions it was only buildable in red or black, but DBG is now possible as well. There are lots of cool colour combos on the rebrickable page. I personally really like the neutral exteriors with the brighter interiors/accents. My black and blue version has undergone a lot of modifications (inspired by the Imola) since that above photo almost 3 years ago. I can't believe its been that long either haha, 3 years goes quick. Anyways, new diffuser, rear wing, dorsal fin with roof scoop, changes to the lower doors, extra details on the front splitter and more blue accents. (I need to take some better photos outside when the weather is better but here's some quick indoor ones)

I agree: since 2020 I have: 1 model from 2026 1 model from 2025 0 models from 2024 1 model from 2023 1 model from 2022 0 models from 2021 1 model from 2020 Edit: I do like the light brick idea suggested above!

Since the rumoured Koenigsegg will be the 6th 1:8 scale car, can we get a 1:8 scale car transporter too? 😆

Congrats! Exciting to see what you’ll be able to create in an official capacity. The MOCs you post are great. I hope the move goes well for you.

I don’t think everything has to accommodate for everything. At the end of the day this is a LEGO forum and it is a space for that. I am not going to be talking about paper mache on an origami forum for example, even though they both are made of paper. I get you are passionate about other brands but it is tiring seeing them brought up at every unrelated topic. There are already other Facebook groups and Reddit pages where you can talk about these alternate brands, or even start your own blog/youtube channel where you can talk about whatever you want.

But they didn’t match the soft axle colour to the metallic colour of the car… and it still looks like a turd when you compare it to the nicer blue version they made of the same model. Maybe Lego could pull off a reddish brown colour and make it look good, but I still don’t think it would be the best or most popular looking colour.

Lots of potential for this model. Pretty exciting. And doing some quick research on the tyres used irl, it’s probably the first car that actually justifies using the larger 87.9mm tyres without ruining the scaling.

I honestly think some of the best B-models are the ones that don’t share the same topic as the original model…. This is such a better idea than making another car out of the same set. Really well executed and love the creativity!

I know right? Maybe somewhat makes sense if all we had was the Porsche. But after the other ones we’ve had… How’d we go from talking about a Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear to a Lotus Emira haha That said, as an Australian, if it was the new limited Bathurst addition I would be interested.

Yellow is my favourite colour so far, nice job 👍🏼

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Really? We complain about the supercars being too similar and uninteresting every time they get released, but as soon as they might release something completely different we complain about that as well? The P1 had a v8 engine, why is it a negative this time? A mustang could have a few mechanical features not yet seen in the 1:8 lineup… - front mounted engine. - McPherson suspension at the front. - live multilink axle/suspension at the rear. - could have manual gearbox dependent on model it’s based on. - completely different style bodywork to everything previously. Sounds pretty good and interesting to me... + I think one would look good with the current line-up... Although I agree with what @chili just wrote, I think it would be unlikely to be the 1:8 car

This would easily be my favourite looking 1:8 CaDA set so far. The details are amazing, parts like being able to see the exhausts through the side skirts are so well done. I dare say I would almost even buy it if I didn’t have the normal version of this car in my Lego collection already. It’s a bit of a shame to have such good photos with the real car, and have parts of the model not put together properly (around the front fender) Does nobody check these things?

Another great 1:12 model from you, been loving these size models you have been putting out. They all look awesome and mix the system/technic pieces really well. I think in this case I actually like the black model better than the red one, makes the taillights pop more. Door hinge mechanism is genius! Here's my understanding of it.... Open vs closed. Its very clever because it also limits how far the door can open.

I’m a bit late to the party, but so happy to see that you finally got to finish this model! It looks great, for me the nicest looking 1:8 Ford GT MOC so far. The colour is really cool and well executed. Did you ever think of using regular blue instead of dark azure?

Agreed! I love the dark blue colour. The set is definitely legit. I saw the completed renders almost 2 years ago when I was talking to the designer about CaDA related stuff. It’s great to see it finally get close to being on sale. That’s all I’ll say for now, I’ll wait for more official info to come out. But it’s definitely a great looking model!

I could be wrong but 10197 in red finally as well? Behind the rear wheel arch panel

Well I picked up this set for a decent discount around the Christmas period and I can't say I'm very impressed with it in person... A lot of talk about the front but there's a lot elsewhere that looks half done as well. The interior is shocking with half the bottom sides of the seats missing and gears chomping through the passenger seat as well. The rear spoiler looks terrible with the mix of LBO/LBG/BLACK and the surrounding parts of the clamshell look unfinished too. Some really interesting and random colours used as well... like the and in the rear clamshell. Why?? Especially when the blue one exists in LBO as well... Anyways... Can't do much about the interior without a lot of internal re-design, and I frankly can't be bothered playing around with the front. But here's my quick ideas at improving the rear... The wing and all pieces under it have been converted to black. Then the paneling around the large frame has been changed to fill it in more. On the plus side the spoiler mechanism works quite nicely and I love the doors. The gearbox was quite refreshing and interesting as well. But overall this will most likely go in the parts bin for MOC's.