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Lengthy earlier than Minifigures, Star Wars units, motion pictures, theme parks, and even injection-molded plastic, there have been automobiles. Automobiles have been core to Lego since earlier than the model from Billund, Denmark, grew to become synonymous with brilliant bricks the world over. Again in 1932, Lego’s founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen, made wooden variations of utilitarian autos corresponding to fireplace vehicles, trains, and pickup vehicles years earlier than he invested in an injection-molding machine—and altered toys eternally. With regards to automobiles, few manufacturers spark pleasure in youngsters and adults like Ferrari. Lego’s first Ferrari got here out in 1998, a yr earlier than the primary Star Wars–branded toy, and the connection with the prancing horse has marched on ever since. From essentially the most fundamental Duplo units geared toward toddlers to lust-worthy fashions it could take adults an extended weekend to finish, Lego has replicated a few of Ferrari’s most spectacular machines, from inside to out. That is each Ferrari set Lego has produced.
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Ferrari Components 1 Racing Automotive
Launch date: 1998Set: 2556Pieces: 580While it bears the prancing horse stickers, the primary Ferrari that Lego produced, in 1998, was a collaboration with Shell and bought at native gasoline stations. Shell offered gasoline and lubricants to a younger driver named Enzo Ferrari again in 1924. When the primary Ferrari rolled out of Maranello in 1947 it had Shell gasoline inside. Ferrari added the horse emblem to honor Francesco Baracca, an Italian World Conflict I pilot who had it painted on his fuselage. After Baracca shot down a German aircraft, which carried the horse emblem borrowed from Stuttgart’s coat of arms the place it was manufactured, he had it added to his fuselage (Porsche would later use the black horse to pay the identical homage to its dwelling metropolis). The Lego model of the Ferrari F310, used throughout the 1996 and 1997 F1 seasons, is about 13 inches lengthy, full with an in depth cockpit. The hood is well detachable, displaying off the primary Ferrari V-10 engine.
Launch date: Might 2004Set: 4693Pieces: 5Aimed at youngsters as younger as 18 months previous, this chunky set features a one-piece, sticker-clad F1 automobile, a Minifigure, and a silver cup. In the course of the 2004 season, Ferrari’s F2004 gained 15 out of 18 races with Michael Schumacher behind the wheel for 13 of these wins, incomes it a spot on Automotive and Driver’s Best Ferraris listing.
Launch date: Might 2004Set: 4694Pieces: 37This set makes use of the Duplo model of the F1 from the earlier set, outfitted right here with a pit cease space. After race and shopper automobiles, Lego makes use of scenes like this, which embrace the Scuderia way of life of F1 with pit stops, garages, and transport trailers. Regardless of solely having 37 items, that is the primary Ferrari set to characteristic a baseplate and alternate establishments to create a diagnostics house the place the Minifigure can crawl underneath the automobile and tinker with a wrench. After 2004, Lego by no means launched one other Duplo Ferrari set.
Launch date: April 2004Set: 8362Pieces: 112Following the less complicated Duplo fashions earlier within the yr, Lego releases its first batch of bigger, extra complicated Ferraris underneath the Racers line, which started in 2001 and went on to cowl Williams F1 and Lamborghini. These had been the primary units to incorporate traditional-sized Minfigures, albeit clad in stickers—the bane of collectors preferring printed components. Between the rear wheels is a Lego brick motor that compresses a steel coil as you pull again. Let go, and the power launches the 7.5-inch lengthy, 1:24 scale automobile alongside. Among the higher particulars listed below are a pair of operable barge boards on both aspect and chunky sidepods.
Launch date: April 2004Set: 8375Pieces: 242With some Lego followers, the variety of Minfigures included in a set is indicative of its worth—and this one comes with seven. The F1 automobile is a scaled-down model of the one within the earlier set however nonetheless retains particulars like sidepods and the airbox above the motive force’s head. There’s loads of playability right here, because the Minfigures do every thing from holding signage (the lollipop man) to lifting the entrance finish, altering tires, and refueling. The pit is outfitted with a couple of particular instruments like a wrench, hammer, oil can, and a nut driver.
Launch date: April 2004Set: 8386Pieces: 738At greater than 18 inches lengthy, this F1 was the biggest Lego construct on the time. Whereas technically a part of the Racers theme, the 1:10 scale F1 employed a bunch of Technic components, making it essentially the most complicated construct when it was launched in 2004. The booklet spends about seven pages detailing the crankshaft and 10-cylinder engine with exhaust and radiator particulars, although there isn’t any working suspension. The engine cowl comes off simply to showcase the operable pistons. Fashions like this make use of what designers and Lego followers name the hand of God—a shaft connecting an easy-to-turn factor on prime of the automobile that controls the entrance wheels with out turning the steering wheel in a crowded cockpit.
Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello
Launch date: April 2004Set: 8389Pieces: 34This easy set has Minfigures with distinctive painted faces for Ferrari drivers Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, each sporting a extra life like pores and skin tone—the primary departure from the Lego basic yellow colour. Whereas the our bodies are sticker clad, every driver comes with a customized, printed helmet. The fantastic chrome trophy matches a Minifigure’s hand however is out of scale. Followers can re-create the drama of 2002 when Ferrari requested Barrichello to permit Schumacher to win the Austrian Grand Prix.
Launch date: January 2005Set: 8652Pieces: 477When the Enzo hit the streets in 2002, the angular styling was a take-it-or-leave-it proposition. Inside a couple of yr of its launch, the F1-inspired supercar discovered itself competing with Porsche’s Carrera GT and the Mercedes-McLaren SLR. The Pope acquired the final of the 400 Enzos constructed again in 2005, which was later auctioned. Lego designers achieved the strains on the 1:17-scale Enzo utilizing only some specialised bricks, which helps make the components helpful in different builds, although it contains stickers for some key components, which bugs some Lego followers. This was additionally the primary Lego model of a street-legal Ferrari.
Launch date: March 2005Set: 8653Pieces: 1360A few months after the primary Enzo Ferrari set, Lego launched a extra detailed 1:10 scale model that depends on Technic components. The hood opens to get a have a look at the V-12 engine’s working yellow pistons, and the doorways swing utilizing an air-driven pistons. Whereas the wheels flip, they are not related to the steering, as an alternative you utilize a hand-of-God knob. At over 1000 items, this was essentially the most complicated construct within the Lego lineup at that time. Flipping the automobile over gives an excellent view of the detailed crankshaft.
Scuderia Ferrari Truck
Launch date: March 2005Set: 8654Pieces: 813For youthful Lego followers, this set gives two components that extra superior fashions do not: Minfigures and a deal with playability. The aspect of the trailer opens to deal with the Components 1 racer whereas a lever on the aspect detaches and units the truck free. Six Minfigures are prepared to assist keep the racer, with spare components, instruments, and even a backup engine. That is the one Lego set in 2005 to characteristic an F1 automobile.
Ferrari 430 Spider 1:17
Launch date: M 2006Set: 8671Pieces: 559For a set that depends closely on stickers and and not using a windshield, the Lego 430 Spider does a superb job of nailing the automobile’s particulars—if you may get previous these headlights. Except for the edges, many of the components used on this set are acquainted to even informal Lego builders. Whereas Pininfarina will get the credit score for styling this Ferrari’s physique, the Lego model does little greater than look the half: It rolls, and has a trunk and hood that open, however not a lot else.
Launch date: January 2006Set: 8672Pieces: 573The automobiles listed below are just like these within the April 2004’s Ferrari F1 Pit, however that is nearly the place the similarities finish. This set is much extra elaborate with a winner’s podium atop the two-bay storage, every of which is labeled with the motive force’s title and nationality for Schumacher and Barrichello. A cameraman and announcer up prime are prepared at hand over the trophy.
Launch date: January 2006Set: 8673Pieces: 189A far less complicated model of the sooner set—each had been launched in January 2006—the gasoline cease has the automobile, a gasoline cart, and a novel gold-plated helmet on the Minifigure gasoline attendant. And working the diagnostics, technique, and managing the race: the bearded and bespectacled Ross Brawn, who labored with Ferrari from 1997 till 2006.
Launch date: June 2006Set: 8674Pieces: 1246At about 2 ft lengthy and primarily based on the early-2000s F1s, this 1:8 scale mannequin was Lego’s most technical Ferrari when it was launched in 2006. Not like many different Ferraris within the Racer lineup, this one features a working unbiased suspension that depends on pushrods to switch load. From above, you may take away the engine cowl to disclose the V-10 engine and pistons, whereas the underside gives a transparent view of the crankshaft. The 2003 season ended with Schumacher successful his sixth Drivers’ Championship and Ferrari’s fifth straight Constructors’ Championships.
Launch date: January 2007Set: 8142Pieces: 167Sans a physique, Lego followers may not admire the inclusion of a Minifigure head and helmet—certain to be misplaced to the darkish corners of any brick bin. However this 248 F1, raced throughout the 2006 season, like 2004’s 8362 set, has a pull-back characteristic that launches the racer ahead. Designers managed to drag off a shapely F1 racer—together with hinting on the automobile’s twin entrance spoiler—with out counting on specialty items.
Ferrari F430 Problem 1:17
Launch date: October 2007Set: 8143Pieces: 690The first Ferrari street-legal journey of 2007 is a twofer: This F430 mannequin included all of the items to construct the automobile in crimson or yellow. That is the one full-size Lego set that provides a Ferrari in something apart from the basic crimson. Although the identical scale, and with the same look and stickers to 2006’s F430 Spider, this set is a single-passenger automobile with a roof that flips up, including a bit extra playability.
Launch date: March 2007Set: 8144Pieces: 726F1 followers will admire Schumacher’s helmet on this set, printed with seven stars for every of his championships. With room for each Schumacher and Felipe Massa, set 8144 has a pair of Ferrari 248 F1s, every with a upkeep bay and eight Minfigures to assist with tires, plot race technique, and drive the three-wheeler. An alternate model of this set is identical, apart from stickers and components that characteristic Kimi Räikkönen, who changed the retiring Schumacher.
Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano 1:10
Launch date: June 2007Set: 8145Pieces: 1327For the primary time, Ferrari used an aluminum, not metal, chassis in a each day driver GT, which gave the automobile an extended wheelbase and longer total size in comparison with the earlier grand tourer, the 575M Maranello. The front-engine 599—which borrows closely from the Enzo—employed a pair of arched pillars flanking the rear window, which push the rear of the automobile down and not using a wing. The entrance finish of the 599 seems rather a lot just like the 612 Scaglietti. The 1:10 scale Lego 599 has hand-of-God steering however skips a gearbox and suspension. The automobile’s form depends much less on bricks and extra on flex rods and physique panels to present it definition—a design Lego by no means actually returns to within the Ferrari lineup. Nonetheless, the hood overlaying the engine, trunk, and opening doorways add some pliability options to this display-worthy mannequin.
Launch date: January 2008Set: 8153Pieces: 270The star of this set isn’t the F1 automobile, with its spherical yellow stud implying the motive force. Slightly it’s the 12-wheeler Iveco truck and trailer. The snub-nose truck has an ominous black brick windshield. The detachable trailer, which holds the automobile, has a fold-down ramp within the rear, and doorways to retailer the tires on the aspect. Like many of the Ferrari units, 8153 is suffering from stickers of F1 sponsors, from Puma to Acer, although the massive prancing horse is a pleasant contact.
Launch date: January 2008Set: 8155Pieces: 482This set is designed to pair with the earlier one, creating an elaborate multi-car pit situation. With the identical Components 1 racer and a tractor-trailer, this set provides a bigger storage part for upkeep and a pickup truck to haul tires. What’s lacking on this extremely playable set is Minfigures, although even when they had been current, their scale is just too giant to slot in the automobiles.
Launch date: January 2008Set: 8156Pieces: 626When the FXX debuted in 2006 it borrowed rather a lot from the Enzo, but it surely additionally helped launch Ferrari’s XX Program. This initiative provides a choose variety of round 30 homeowners the prospect to drive the automobiles within the XX line on non-public course days, then present suggestions to Ferrari’s technical staff to reinforce future automobiles. Type of essentially the most unique automobile membership on the earth. Whereas this show mannequin seems sharp, with a mix of crisp strains, natural curves, and a racing stripe, it has working scissor-style doorways and a hood that opens to indicate off the engine.
Launch date: June 2008Set: 8157Pieces: 997This is the largest Ferrari F1 automobile Lego launched since 2006, and it is a massive 1:9 scale, 20-inch-long splash of Ferrari crimson with some black tires. This display-worthy mannequin has a couple of options that make it price pulling off the shelf. Together with working steering, the entrance finish and rear wing are designed to be simply eliminated. Whereas this F1 is lacking an in depth engine and dealing suspension, the low-to-the-ground mannequin does offer you a superb visible illustration of how air flows across the automobile.
Launch date: December 2008Set: 8123Pieces: 139Lego returned as soon as once more to the Ferrari pit theme, however this time utilizing the Tiny Turbos sub-theme inside Racers. That is the form of set you’d discover packaged with a Completely happy Meal. The 2 F1 racers journey round a foldable racetrack, which replaces the extra frequent inflexible baseplate.
Launch date: June 2009Set: 8168Pieces: 202While far less complicated than bigger, extra detailed automobiles, the 2 Minifigures drivers right here do a greater job of retaining with the dimensions of the automobile. Torso stickers for every determine Massa and Räikkönen, and every has a novel printed helmet. Constructed with fundamental Lego bricks, you must take away a part of the cockpit to slide the drivers out and in, which replicates the tight quarters of the actual Components 1 automobiles.
Launch date: June 2009Set: 8185Pieces: 534With one other transport truck within the Ferrari line, Lego continues to pay nice consideration to those beefy, massive rigs. Right here the truck is related to the trailer with a cabin giant sufficient to carry two of the included 5 Minifigures. The trailer opens from the rear, to load and unload the racer, and in addition from the aspect to assist retailer some accent software carts and diagnostic gear. A pair of pull-out drawers home hand instruments beneath, whereas two racks inside wait to carry the tires you pull off the automobile.
Shell V-Energy promotional units
Launch date: 2012Sets: 30190, 30191, 30192, 30193, 30194, 30195, and 30196Pieces: 25 to 48In 2012, Lego, by way of a partnership with Shell, launched a collection of seven units in plastic baggage, for buy whenever you stopped at a Shell gasoline station in Europe and components of Asia. The road featured easy variations of avenue automobiles, just like the 458 Italia, an F1 racer, a staff scudeira truck, and three units of the Shell gasoline staff with Minifigures. Essentially the most fascinating automobile of the lot is the 25-piece, 250 GT Berlinetta, which options rounded headlights and a hood scoop. Like all of the automobiles within the line, it has a pull-back motor that hurls the toy ahead. Lego didn’t launch bigger Ferrari units in 2012.
Shell V-Energy Promotional Units
Launch date: 2014Sets: 40190, 40191, 40192, 40193, 40194, 40195Pieces: 41 to 95After a lull in 2013, Lego returned with extra promotional Ferrari units bought by way of Shell stations. Just like the 2012 line, these additionally featured pull-back motors in a variety of 4 Ferrari automobiles, a end line, and a gasoline station; the latter two included Minifigures. There was a seventh set, a Shell gasoline truck, but it surely wasn’t affiliated with Ferrari. Essentially the most fascinating automobile within the lineup is the 51-piece Ferrari 512 S in brilliant yellow. Regardless of solely a handful of bricks, the set does a trustworthy job of re-creating the curvy, natural form of the five-liter, V-12 racer, together with the low-slung headlights. Lego didn’t launch bigger Ferrari units in 2014.
Launch date: August 2015Set: 10248Pieces: 1158Before passing in 1988, Enzo Ferrari gave the inexperienced mild to what can be his final automobile—the F40, celebrating his model’s fortieth anniversary. One other Ferrari to make Automotive and Driver’s listing of notable prancing horses, the F40 is bookended by its most signature options: a nostril that pitches down and the chunky rear wing. Lego designer Mike Psiaki, who works on numerous Lego automobiles, gave the F40 pivoting headlights, a hood that opens ahead, and operable doorways. Then there’s the trunk: It opens with a prop rod, and the bumper is well detachable so you may yank out all the engine and admire the eight pistol items that symbolize the exhaust headers.
Launch date: March 2015Set: 75899Pieces: 164This stable, chunky mannequin is able to launch throughout lounge flooring with a couple of new items launched particularly for the LaFerrari, specifically the shapely windshield. This electrical hybrid Ferrari permits Bugatti Veyron–like pace and respectable gasoline economic system. The set depends on stickers to present the entrance finish eye-catching particulars and rounded components within the rear to lend form to the tail lights. This set is a part of Lego’s Pace Champion line, which started in 2015 to deal with well-known, formally licensed automobiles.
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2
Launch date: March 2015Set: 75908Pieces: 153After successful a pair of races on the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 12 Hours of Sebring, the GT2 lives on the cabinets in kids’s bedrooms all over the world as a brilliant, sticker-clad Lego racer. From the racing stripe down the middle to the blacked-out wheels and rear spoiler, Lego nailed the aesthetics, although the mannequin is a bit chunkier than the Italian unique, providing extra of a stock-car vibe.
F14 T & Scuderia Ferrari Truck
Launch date: March 2015Set: 75913Pieces: 884If all you probably did was purchase the Lego Ferrari scuderia vehicles, you’d have sufficient to rival the best Hess toy truck assortment. Essentially the most elaborate truck launched, the 75913 got here with six Minifigures, together with a couple of which have ear safety. The truck detaches from the trailer with a lever. And contained in the trailer, two huge doorways rotate up, opening to supply sufficient house to deal with the turbo-powered F14 T automobile, with tires on, the scooter, and all of the instruments. There are even particulars like a pc, keyboard, and mug for an espresso.
Scuderia Ferrari SF16-H
Launch date: March 2017Set: 75879Pieces: 184While this set contains the Ferrari SF16-H Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Räikkönen used within the 2016 Components 1 season, the construct and look are practically an identical to the F14 T from 2014, with some variations within the chunky entrance wing. The one Minifigure could possibly be Vettel or Räikkönen, relying on which helmet you utilize. The accompanying pit wall has a lane with instruments and a pc, in addition to the end line.
Ferrari FXX Okay & Improvement Heart
Launch date: March 2017Set: 75882Pieces: 494This set retains with the spirit of the R&D that is on the core of Ferrari’s XX Program. The FXX, a juiced-up Enzo, began the motive force’s membership within the mid-2000s, and the FXX Okay right here, from 2014, is the newest version to take part. The FXX Okay has the identical V-12 because the LaFerrari (and numerous the identical components at Lego’s model of that automobile), however with a better complete output of 1026 horsepower. The Lego model of the FXX is aggressive wanting, particularly with the rear wing. The wind tunnel has a working fan and rollers you use by a crank, and it is adjustable—in case you need to check the aerodynamics of different Pace Champion automobiles. Ferrari Minifigure workers are additionally standing by to check the efficiency of an engine and print 3D components.
Ferrari 488 GT3 Scuderia Corsa
Launch date: March 2018Set: 75886Pieces: 179Based on the automobile that gained the 2016 IMSA GT Daytona Class, pushed by Christina Nielsen, this set features a feminine Minifigure and a extra appropriately scaled trophy and printed physique go well with on the torso. The 488 GT3 will get yellow stickers, probably for the 24 Hours of Le Mans race, and two units of rims. The higher detailing is upfront with the splitter and within the rear wing, which is adjustable.
Ferrari Final Storage
Launch date: March 2018Set: 75889Pieces: 841 This could be essentially the most play-worthy Ferrari set Lego has ever designed. You get two classics: the curvaceous Ferrari 250GTO plus the vast and low-slung 312 T4, which has a pair of interchangeable rear wings. The extra trendy Ferrari is the 488GTE, which is analogous in styling to the earlier set’s GT3. After racing, roll the automobiles onto the storage’s elevate, then transfer some Technic components to elevate the rig. Refuel the Ferraris on the old-school gasoline pump on the correct, after which show them within the museum on the left—roping the GTO off, in fact, so the photo-snapping Minifigure, one in every of seven within the set, will not scratch the paint.
Ferrari F40 Competizione
Launch date: January 2019Set: 75890Pieces: 198The third F40 Lego launched is the Goldilocks of the vary: not as complicated because the 1158-piece first supplied in 2017, however extra satisfying to work on than the 48-piece promotional set Shell bought at gasoline stations in 2014. It is a becoming tribute to one of the vital iconic Ferraris ever. This set makes use of fairly easy bricks to realize the look, however there are particular touches just like the rear window and a few bricks printed with the Ferrari brand. Playability is bumped up as a result of you may swap between the usual F40 and the Competizione model, which is extra highly effective, that includes a twin-turbocharged V-8—you may swap out the trunk, headlights, and rear diffuser.
Launch date: January 2020Set: 76895Pieces: 275Lego’s Pace Champion lineup placed on slightly weight on in 2020. Beforehand, automobiles on this class had been six studs vast—a Lego time period used to indicate measurements—and grew to eight vast. The F8 Tributo is the primary Ferrari to get the beefier remedy. A byproduct of that development is that designers can add particulars with components moderately than stickers, as you may see with the S duct taken from Ferrari’s F1 automobiles and the aspect air intakes. The result’s a automobile that falls between sturdy sufficient to play with and detailed sufficient to show.
Ferrari 488GTE ‘AF Corse #51’
Launch date: January 2021Set: 42125 Items: 1677Released in early 2021, for round $200, the 488GTE was the primary Ferrari to get the total Technic remedy (which suggests a working suspension, amongst different issues). The 488 GTE, which gained Ferrari some endurance races together with a first-place end on the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2019 and 2021, is available in at nicely over 4000 items and 19 inches lengthy, that means meeting is not precisely kid’s play. With about 60 stickers, the set is extra than simply constructing, although there may be loads of that with a V-8 engine and its pistons, which connects to the rear axle by way of a differential. The doorways open to disclose a working steering wheel and an precisely detailed inside inside a sturdy, stable display-worthy mannequin.
Launch date: March 2022Set: 76906 Items: 291This 6.5-inch-long throwback to a 1970 Ferrari 512M, a decrease, extra highly effective model of the 512 S, marks the start of when race-car designers began contemplating aerodynamics. This mannequin nails the sloping nostril with headlights, the cockpit and cover, and the rear spoiler. Diehard Lego followers—particularly those that dislike stickers—ought to admire that the designer added extra printed bricks with the Ferrari brand than are literally required within the mannequin, to extend usability in different builds.
Launch date: June 2022Set: 42143Pieces: 3778Only the second Lego Technic Ferrari, that is the largest and costliest one so far. Launched in June 2022 for $450, the 23-inch lengthy, 1:8 scale mannequin was timed to coincide with the debut of the actual automobile. Over the pandemic, Ferrari’s designers in Italy had been ending the automobile as Lego’s staff in Denmark stored tempo with last-minute modifications. The center of the automobile come from the 330 P4 that Ferrari ran out to win the 1967 Daytona. A part of Lego’s Final Automotive Idea, the Ferrari Daytona SP3 joins different large-scale Technic builds just like the Lamborghini Sián FKP 37, Bugatti Chiron, and Porsche 911 GT3 RS. The instruction booklet walks you thru the assembling the engine and crankcase, which is a rewarding, technical facet of the construct. Turning the automobile over reveals the working eight-speed transmission managed by paddle shifters contained in the cabin.
Ferrari 812 Competizione
Launch date: March 2023Set: 76914Pieces: 261The first Lego Ferrari of 2023 could be the final of a dying breed. The 2022 812 Competizione feels prefer it could be the ultimate V-12 that prances with out assistance from a battery and electrical motor. The Lego model is smoother than most Pace Champion fashions with solely a handful of studs displaying. Stickers assist add racing particulars, however bricks element the aggressive entrance finish and wonderful rear exhaust of this six-inch-long mannequin.
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