I absolutely HATED CARS when I saw it in the theater (20 years ago! LMAOOO) so this is an EASY pass for me, but I mean whatever it's a fine inclusion for the line regardless of how I feel about the films.

@Carbohydrates said:
"It looks good, very charming. I notice it's a buck more expensive than the last Speed Champs sets and with fewer pieces, though."

Disney tax!

I think the bonnet looks a little broken up and not quite curvy enough, but it looks so very nice otherwise. It almost feels weird after all those highly specialised Cars they made all those years ago.

A speed champions I might actually buy

Love it!!!
I had no idea about this, so it’s a complete surprise to me…… Made me smile straight away.
Looks great

Maybe they should've brick built the eyes? I wonder how bad this set would look without the stickers, likely almost unrecognizable. The price increase for 2026 is also disappointing.

Oh dear, all stickers, and stickers for the eyes meaning that once the stickers crack and go in a few years you won't have much left.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't like it at all. The roof is way too square, the mouth is giving me nightmares, and without all the gazillion stickers you'd have no idea what car it is. The side window stickers are specially awful...

Definitely not a set for me, and I'm both a Pixar and Speed champions fan :-/

Oh well. Somebody said DeLorean? Yes please!

Very cool! Did not see this coming at all. I don’t have any of the old Cars sets; this might be my first one!

Odd choice to make since the demand for anything Cars related died out some time ago... That said, its pretty damn accurate in build and style. Just a shame they've gone with so many stickers.

As a huge Speed Champions fan I was a little unsure at first but it looks amazing

Given the lack of minifigure and I doubt there is an interior I think a reduction in the price by a few quid or the inclusion of a few accessories would have been in order.

Lot of people don't know this but Cars is a total rip off of Doc Hollywood from 1991 staring Michael J. Fox (Lightning), Woody Harrelson (Mater), Julie Warner (Sally), etc.

Wrong theme!. More like Duplo than Speed Champions. Could this be the first ever Speed Champ I don't get?.... Of course not!

(So long as the path to Wacky Races is now clear!)

@AustinPowers said:
" @WokePope said:
"I absolutely HATED CARS when I saw it in the theater (20 years ago! LMAOOO) so this is an EASY pass for me, but I mean whatever it's a fine inclusion for the line regardless of how I feel about the films."
What's not to like about the Cars movies? "

My answer to that question (IMO) is so simple I can say it in two words: 'Cars 2'. If you need more words, here's two more: 'Spy Mater'.

I'm not gonna buy this set.

Doesn't feel like a Speed Champion to me. Prefer it if they stuck to actual real world cars. Even the other movie based SC cars are real.

Might be the first SC I don’t buy

I mean, it looks fine? But I never got around to watching Cars and three quarters of the reasons I don’t get Speed Champions is I don’t do my own stickers and it feels unreasonable to dump a large number on someone else for a fairly small kit, and that sure does look like a lot of stickers. I guess more regular Speed Champions fans are used to it and accept it as the price of entry, though, and it’s a good enough fit for the line, if just a touch off the beaten path with no minifig driver and no exact real world equivalent.

@tcisneros1220 said:
" @Carbohydrates said:
"It looks good, very charming. I notice it's a buck more expensive than the last Speed Champs sets and with fewer pieces, though."

Disney tax!"

its not a disney tax they just are upping the prices bc the demand is there. Only thing to do is to not buy until sales

So much for Speed Champions using clever building techniques and switching from stickers towards brick-built features like lights. Even the windshield is stickered on this! Good luck matching the curved slope prints with the rest of the sticker color. This is objectively the absolute worst SC model in the 8 stud era. Why would they release this model in a series that only included real licensed cars until now? First SC I won't buy because of this and I have them all. :(

KER
CHOOOOOO

"Oh. my. god."
Was my initial reaction. Followed by uncontrollable chuckling to myself. I'm not really a fan of Cars, but I kinda want this?

The Cars movie is one of my favorite movies, so I'll most likely get this.

I also can't believe Cars 20 years old!

Wait, we're into the 2026 reveals already? How on earth did that happen??

@Murdoch17 said:
" @AustinPowers said:
" @WokePope said:
"I absolutely HATED CARS when I saw it in the theater (20 years ago! LMAOOO) so this is an EASY pass for me, but I mean whatever it's a fine inclusion for the line regardless of how I feel about the films."
What's not to like about the Cars movies? "

My answer to that question (IMO) is so simple I can say it in two words: 'Cars 2'. If you need more words, here's two more: 'Spy Mater'.

I'm not gonna buy this set."
No one is forcing you to. Incidentally, I'm not going to buy this set either. While I really enjoyed the movies (all of them), I simply don't need a LEGO Cars set.

I'm just here to see what Star Wars vehicle Jake Sadovich is going to make this guy into!

Would prefer 2 pack with Mater but this will be a buy once on 20%/+ off as all SC sets are for me these days. No reason to ever buy these at full price. But should be a fun build with a bit more personality. No figs makes sense but is a departure from other SC sets.

Can't tell.if it can actually fit a fig or whether the cab is full of car brain

Who asked for this??

The eyes being a sticker is probably the most unforgivable sticker ever

That's easily the widest 4-wide Lego car ever.....

I get what they were going for and I think the attempt is succesful, but it certainly isn't a set for me. Those stickers alone....and apparently yet another price increase for Speed Champions?

Ha, what a great idea and makes perfect sense! SC was getting a bit stale for me, I only have two of the current batch on my wish list, but this will make it three.

@bnic99 I am completely in if they give us an SC A-Team van and KITT.

@esrevernisti said:
"Lot of people don't know this but Cars is a total rip off of Doc Hollywood from 1991 staring Michael J. Fox (Lightning), Woody Harrelson (Mater), Julie Warner (Sally), etc. "

I mean, A Bug's Life is just The Three Amigos (and so is Galaxy Quest).

My childhood! This and the DeLorean will probably be the first Speed Champions sets I actually buy!

Way better reveal and announcement than the UCS Death Star

Even the eyes are stickers. Weren’t integral “character” elements either prints or brick-built until recently?

@WolfpackBricks63 said:
" @BigDumbWookiee said:
" @CommandrCody212 said:
"Unexpected, but cool! I’m glad we’re finally getting another licensed Speed Champions set outside of the Fast & Furious franchise. "

One of the leakers that first spilled the news on this set has also said we're getting a DeLorean. "

There's no way it's ever happening but I'd love to see Mr. Wolf's car from The Bad Guys"

Doc Brown's new face has already leaked, and we know both Marty and him will be in the set.

But why?

@ScholtzTKO said:
"The eyes being a sticker is probably the most unforgivable sticker ever"

What, since the Death Star yesterday?

*This thing.
"That'll be 28 euro"

I have to admit, this vehicle of all things now being a thing in the Speed Champions theme is kind of funny.

"I am speed"

I think it looks pretty good. The stickers are accurate to the source material, even the headlights, like the F1 sets.

And, I mean, Lightning McQueen IS Speed, and he's a champion (at least in the first movie...), so this is probably the first Speed Champions set that literally fits the theme exactly.

Now, a DeLorean, on the other hand? Not so much. That is neither speed nor a champion. The fastest a DeLorean has ever gone is 88 mph, and that one was a film prop....

Edit: my brother pointed out, this set should've come with an Owen Wilson minifig as the driver. Missed opportunity for a real "Wow!" set there....

@WolfpackBricks63 said:
" @BigDumbWookiee said:
" @CommandrCody212 said:
"Unexpected, but cool! I’m glad we’re finally getting another licensed Speed Champions set outside of the Fast & Furious franchise. "

One of the leakers that first spilled the news on this set has also said we're getting a DeLorean. "

There's no way it's ever happening but I'd love to see Mr. Wolf's car from The Bad Guys"

Yes, this would be so cool! Love those films

@MegaBlocks said:
"Oh dear, all stickers, and stickers for the eyes meaning that once the stickers crack and go in a few years you won't have much left."

They literally call him stickers in the movie. It would actually be less accurate if he had printed parts

@MandoEli37 said:
"Who asked for this??"

Just ticked this off my ‘Brickset Comments on LEGO Set Reveal’ bingo card. Thanks!

@560heliport said:
"To anyone who is complaining about stickers:
I gave 60267 Safari Off-Roader to my cousin's 6-year-old that year. He asked me to put the sticker on the hood/bonnet, but did the rest himself. They looked... well, like a 6-year-old applied then. But he was happy.

That kid was more mature than you whiny brats."

So now you'll hire him to do the stickers in all of your sets? Smart move!

@ajperez said:
"Unpopular opinion, but I don't like it at all. The roof is way too square, the mouth is giving me nightmares, and without all the gazillion stickers you'd have no idea what car it is. The side window stickers are specially awful..."
The side windows are printed/brick-built, not stickers. Same with the slopes above the rear wheels, the rear wheel arches, and the 1x1 plates just in front of the arches. The eyes are stickers, though, yes. Probably to make them stand out more, since we all know the car would have pink-eye if they were printed.

Not sure if it'd be unrecognizable without the decorations. On the one hand, it is a somewhat amorphously-shaped car in general, unlike the hyper-specific replicas of the 8-wide SC age. On the other hand, it is still bright red, and the shape being deliberately and completely different from any real-world sportscars/supercars may make it quite distinguishable, especially to non-car people.

@Hiratha said:
"I never got around to watching Cars"

Watch Cars! It's genuinely a good movie with real heart to it.