How to build dream cars with LEGO bricks

sold! and no fiddling with teeny tiny stickers, either

If others can do this, why do the LEGO models look so awful? If the sets looked like this I'd have bought all of them. With what they're looking like, I've bought none.

Nice car MOC, but I prefer minifigures can sit in the cars. I also built some Lego cars whose doors, hood and trunk can opened. I am sharing my MOC on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBOYseqPC24roj_mAHtu9Yg?view_as=subscriber

Lol. For me they are usless if they cant sit minifig.

I actually liked the official version. And I prefer cars to fit people, not just heads.

Clever ideas it looks like, but I’ll likely pass.

@Supersonic. Lego set designers have to balance several things: style, kid suitability (for most sets) stability and budget. The model they design has to look cool, it usually has to be buildable by a child, be sturdy enough for play when complete, and it has to use parts available in the current range. Getting all of those things right is very hard and they only have limited time to do it because each team has to produce a bunch of sets each year. MOCs are different because people can find pieces from across the range to make a model look more accurate, they can be fragile if they are only going to be display pieces (or only handled by discerning adults), and they can cost a lot to put together.

@Supersonic:
When they design sets, they start with price points, they have a fixed palette of parts to work with based on what's currently in production, they have a limited allotment of new elements that they have to spread out over the entire wave for that theme (most of which will probably go toward minifigs), and they have to brainstorm ideas with the group before they even start designing stuff. Everything you design at that point could be rejected, in which case you'll probably be assigned to finalize someone else's model instead of doing your own thing. You have to be able to design towards an age group. They have to be able to build it, tear it apart, and drop some abuse on it along the way. It can't just be about looks, either. Play features are paramount, so you may have to compromise the design to fit in stuff that shoots, or moving features. You'll have to coordinate with graphic designers for the minifigs and stickers, and pitch ideas for any new molds you want created.

And when all of that is said and done, you hand off the completed model to the Design Department to see if it passes muster. Most of the models that most AFOLs design would fail before they even had a chance to walk back to their departments, because we tend to be fond of using what's known as "illegal techniques", which are forbidden in Billund.

BTW, stickers are a cheat. It allows them to bypass the restriction on new elements, since decoration counts against that total. It was noted that the Chima Legend Beasts had pad printed faces, and stickers for stripes, spots, claws, and other non-facial features. The theory from this was that facial features are play-critical, so a kid could build the model and start playing with it right away, and when a parent or older sibling became available, they could apply the stickers.