If you’ve been coveting a Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, the 1,625 bhp ‘megacar’ from the stable of Swedish manufacturer Christian Von Koenigsegg, but were held back by the £4m price tag – or indeed the fact that all 30 units sold out well in advance of public release – then I’ve got good news for you: you can have one right now for 400 quid. The catch? You’ll need to be less than six inches tall to fit in it.
Alright, so maybe the new LEGO Technic version won't do the 224 mph that its five-litre V8 twin turbo-engined bigger brother will (unless you push it extremely hard down a very steep hill, perhaps). But at roughly 1/12,500th of the price, this 4,104-piece model, which is aimed firmly at the adult market, packs many of the same jaw-dropping features that make the Sadair’s Spear one of the most desirable cars on the planet.
Speaking at the launch event, held in Koenigsegg’s futuristic and surprisingly robot-free production facility in Ängelholm, Sweden, Kasper Rene Hansen, Senior Model Designer at the LEGO Group, said: “Our ambition was to create the most advanced LEGO Technic build we’ve ever produced. Incorporating features such as a working Ghost Mode, a nine-speed sequential gearbox and the unique Triplex suspension system – all firsts for a Technic Ultimate model – pushed the boundaries of what’s possible.”
If you wondered what Ghost Mode is, so did I. Before arriving at the Koenigsegg facility – housed on the site of a former Swedish Air Force base – where the real cars are made almost entirely by hand, I’d laboured under the misapprehension that it was some kind of stealth mode that turns all the car’s lights off and makes it invisible to enemy radar (in other words, speed cameras). But no, Ghost Mode is actually something that appeals even more to my inner child: at the press of a button, the car will perform a kind of synchronised ‘dance’ whereby the bonnet, rear wing and both doors (which are of the ‘dihedral synchro-helix actuation’ type, i.e. they swing upwards) all lift up together – rather dramatically, I might add – at the same time.
The effect is that your £4M car – or indeed your £400 model – will appear to be doing a very passable impression of a ‘floating-bedsheet’ phantom from a silent movie of the 1920s. It’s not as puerile as it sounds: the ghost logo, which adorns the factory’s solid wooden doors as well as the helipad right outside, is taken from the squadron symbol of the famous F10 Scania Wing, which operated from the site in its military days.
As I stood admiring the two cars side by side, Kasper told me, “the LEGO Technic model has a nine-speed gearbox on a V8 piston engine plus a rotating disc showing which gear the model is in. Getting those and the Ghost Mode to work perfectly, just like on the real thing, was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done in my career as a designer.”
He also told me that, during the 18-month development period for the model, LEGO made roughly the same number of prototypes (around 30) as Koenigsegg did themselves when they made the road-going vehicle.
Denmark-based LEGO – still a family-owned company – has actually been building cars (albeit very small ones made of bricks) since 1932. So they’ve got nearly six decades on Koenigsegg, which Christian started in 1994 at the age of 22, after a childhood in which the now-53-year-old revealed that LEGO played an important part.
When you put it all together (no pun intended), it’s a pretty impressive feat that LEGO has managed to squeeze in so much innovative functional engineering into a 59 x 28 x 15 cm model, for around the same cost as a good dinner in the West End.
And it would certainly be easier to find a parking space outside the restaurant for it than in the £4M version… plus the insurance will be considerably cheaper. Just remember not to eat too much if you want to try to squeeze into those seats.
The LEGO® Technic™ Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar is available on LEGO.com and in LEGO Stores from 4 July 2026. RRP: £399.99. Discover more at lego.com
