Even as a toy that you have to assemble yourself, the Bugatti Chiron is very expensive.
The Bugatti Chiron is one of the most powerful road-going cars in the world, with the quad-turbocharged, W16 engine delivering an incredible 1,479 horsepower. It is also one of the fastest cars in the world, with an electronically-limited top speed of 261 miles per hour, but with a price starting at $3 million US dollars, the closest most of us will ever come to owning one is a toy.
Fortunately, the folks from Lego now offer the Bugatti Chiron in their Technic Series, meaning that it is a large, intricate kit with all sorts of moving parts. The Technic Bugatti is bigger and more elaborate than the car kits in the Speed Champions series, but it is also considerably more expensive. With an MSRP of $349.99, the small-scale toy version is one of the more expensive cars of its type similarly to how the real car is one of the more expensive full-sized cars.
Lego Chiron
The BugattiChiron from the Lego Technic series is design in 1:8 scale, resulting in assembled dimensions of 5-inches high, 22-inches long and 9-inches wide. The kit is comprised of 3,599 pieces and in addition to the distinct body of the Chiron, this kit includes the luxurious interior, the W16 engine with a moving rotating assembly and active aero bits that are actually adjustable. Under the hood of each car is a serial number and the instructions are printed in a color collector’s book, while the whole package comes in “luxurious box packaging”, although it looks like a regular box in the pictures on the Lego website.
On the inside, this 1:8 scale Bugatti has working steering and a moving shifter, but the most significant aspect of this kit is the engine and transaxle assembly. In much the same way that the real car has the front portion of the car with the driver’s compartment mated up to the rear section with the massive engine, the Lego version is comprised of the two main portions of the chassis.
While the Lego version is predictably “blockier” than the real Bugatti Chiron, this small-scale supercar is an excellent representation of the real thing. However, with a price tag of $350, this is more an adult collectable than a toy.
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