Review: 76895 Ferrari F8 Tributo
Posted by Huw,
The Speed Champions theme was introduced in 2015 and since then we've seen over 40 sets featuring cars from a wide range of marques and racing series.
Next year's sets are a departure from earlier ones in that they are eight studs wide instead of six. It's about time: in my review from February 2015 of one of the first, 75909 McLaren P1, I stated that "[if you] look at [the model] from the front and top and the design flaws become very apparent: it's far too narrow!
"The dimensions of the real car are 4.5m long by 2.1m wide. The LEGO one is 18 studs long which equates to 1 stud=25 cm. The scale width should thus be 8.4 studs and it's plain to see that if it has been made 8 studs wide it would have looked so much better and there would have been room inside for two seats"
It seems that, at last, that LEGO agrees with this and has taken action. The result is that Speed Champions is no longer a series of incorrectly-scaled toy cars but something else entirely...
Box and contents
The front of the box shows the model traversing a narrow road along what looks to be one of Italy's lakes, playground of the rich and famous.
The back shows a rear view of the car and a picture of the real vehicle upon which it is based.
The set's 275 parts are packaged in numbered bags and instructions are in one manual. There's a sticker sheet but there's not an excessive number of them.
New parts
The new width of the vehicle has required new parts: A new chassis piece and a new axle brick.
The chassis is interesting because the middle recess has 5 studs across its width, rather than 6. This allows for 2 minifigs to sit in it with 1 stud between them.
There's some flexibility in the chassis to enable the axle bricks to be positioned 8, 9 or 10 studs apart to suit different wheelbases.
The wheels are new, too. They have pin holes rather than axle holes in them, but are otherwise very similar to the old ones.
The 6-wide canopy is also new and, thankfully, is printed.
There are three other printed parts, this 1x4 plate with 2 studs, a Nexo Knight shield which you'll see in a picture below and also a piece that is so small I didn't notice it was printed at first. You'll see it below, too.
Minifigure
The driver is attired in denims, a superb Ferrari-branded T-Shirt and a leather jacket. Typical of an Italian Ferrari driver, I suspect.
A black crash helmet is also provided.
Construction
Construction begins at the back and as you can see extensive use has been made of 'Left Plate 1X2, W/ Bow, 45 Deg. Cut' and the right hand version to create the curves of the bodywork.
This picture shows the printed Nexo Knight shields in use at the front. The car does not make use of 'traditional' minifig seats: instead, they sit on the floor.
The small printed piece I mentioned earlier is a 1x1 plate with a tiny Ferrari logo on the side which first appeared in 75890 Ferrari F40 Competizione earlier this year. The printing doesn't look great in this picture but the logo is only a few mm high so it looks perfectly fine with the naked eye.
The completed model
The model measures 15cm x 7cm. The real car is 4.6m x 1.9m, so length-wise a stud equates to 30cm, and width-wise, 27cm, so it's not far off being to scale. It's certainly much better than the 6-wides!
I think it looks absolutely stunning from every angle:
The canopy lifts off to seat the driver. Note that I have modified the car to have the steering wheel on the correct, right, side. Unfortunately the steering wheel is half-a-stud offset from the centre of the driver's seat. A new part, similar to the old but on a 1x1 base instead of a 1x2, would resolve this problem. Perhaps we'll see one in due course.
There's plenty of room inside to seat the nice lady from the Bookshop, too!
However, this reveals the model's only real flaw. I tried replacing the canopy with them both seated only to find it wouldn't fit. I suspected the shopkeeper's voluminous hair would be to blame but even after removing her it still wouldn't go: the driver's hair is too tall as well. The canopy only fits if the driver is wearing his helmet. This is great shame given this is a car usually driven on roads, where wearing one is both unnecessary and unlikely.
I guess the extra plate of clearance necessary to resolve this issue would have made the vehicle too tall.
Compared to 75899 LaFerrari
These pictures show how pathetically narrow the 2015 model 75899 LaFerrari looks compared to this one.
Verdict
This really is a beautiful model of a beautiful car. The additional two studs of width, together with the modern parts palette of curved slopes, quarter-circle tiles, and 1x1 brackets, have enabled the designers to capture the graceful lines of the car pretty much perfectly.
Speed Champions used to be a line of toy cars: in most cases, bearing only a passing resemblance to their real-life counterparts. What we have now are realistic scale models. This is just about as good a LEGO model as you're going to get at this scale.
What a difference 2 studs has made, as I predicted it would back in 2015. It's a shame that it's taken so long for LEGO to cotton on because I know many of you have invested heavily in the 6-wides and for you, at this late stage, it's an unwelcome change. But I implore you to buy this, or one of the others in the series, and judge for yourself how much better they are.
It's not quite perfect: the minifig hair problem is annoying, and the steering wheel isn't lined up with the driver's seat, but they are minor points given that, for adults at least, most of the time the model will be gracing a display cabinet or desk, admired by all that pass by.
The new Speed Champions range will most likely go on sale on 26th December. I am unsure of the retail price of this set but I would guess it's $19.99 / £19.99.
Thanks to LEGO for providing this set for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
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I have always held back from purchasing Speed Champion Sets, but I am completely won over. Wonder what an 8 stud wide Delorian would look like?
It does look great. Hopefully the price stays the same at £12.99 for 1 car.
Not a collector of the series, but I wonder why Lego still cannot make the printed red look the same as the brick red...
I've also been thinking of a modified steering wheel with a 1x1 base, but it doesn't look like that would actually fit anyway? Great review!
@Wolfmanone , @Huw
These new larger cars will sell for £17.99 each. They are listed coming soon at LEGO Shop
Tbh now a bad price though in would have preferred them being £14.99 but nvm still going to have to get this.
Lego obviously doubled down on the adult audience with the transition to 8-stud. The first series was really popular with adults, and they figured with greater realism they could get even more fans. The box design is also telling of this, more sleek and mature, no "kid" oriented design notes unlike before.
I think all of this is positive. Pistonhead kids also appreciate a more realistic design. For kids more into regular City play sets the new City cars are good just as well, so nobody loses out.
Correct left side, right?
I don't follow racing themes, but just the other day I was looking at some 6-7-wide car designs for my city and thinking "man, I wish there was a windscreen piece that is 6 studs wide but narrows down to 5 or 4 at the top". Lo and behold...
I am pleased with this change. LEGO probably realized more adults were buying these up, and the 6W works great for City-scale. Now adults can get a legitimately 8W, scaled model car.
Thanks for the comparison shots of the new vs. old. I have several of the 6 wide cars and didn't think 8 wide would be necessary. I was wrong! The 8 wide look so much better and it has me second guessing my original thought of passing on the new 2020 models.
I don't collect speed champions but did think it odd that the 6 studs wide made the cars no matter the model it was based on look distorted. I can understand why 6 wide in city sets makes sense to help keep costs down, but for a theme that is based on cars it should be to scale in both width and length (and hopefully height). Yes its probably going to cost more going to 8 studs wide but again this theme is marketed as pretty much model cars; so fans want them to look right.
OMG! I'm not a fan of lego cars but this one is a beauty and I'm definitely getting it. It looks fantastic, it's not very expensive and I really like the new chassis part, I think it will be useful for my spaceship mocs.
I'm a little disappointed with the way in which this 8-stud design has been implemented. Firstly, the wheels are now far too small. And this is only going to become more apparent as new models are released, especially with the taller cars, like the Nissan. If the designers wished to increase the scale of the thing then this was a golden opportunity to make larger wheels. Secondly, the extra size, means more pieces and the models therefore, I feel, now look too fussy. They have lost some of their charm and their elegance with this transition. I think the six-stud wide speed champions actually trump these newer models when it comes to viewing them in side-profile, which is often how they are displayed anyway. So, this really is an unnecesary revision. I feel bad for the kids, too, because of the inevitable price increase. It's great for someone like me though, I will just embrace the extra piece count and continue to build at six-stud wide until they address that wheel size.
Nice review. What would be the actual scale? Would it be about 1:32 or are we getting close to 1:24?
@AstonVulcan said:
"... until they address that wheel size."
I guess they could have been a couple of mm bigger but I can't say I noticed that they might be too small until you mentioned it.
Increasing their diameter would have knock-on effects on the mudguards: they'd no longer fit within 4 studs, which is probably why they didn't increase them.
@Sparky_Ham said:
"I have always held back from purchasing Speed Champion Sets, but I am completely won over. Wonder what an 8 stud wide Delorian would look like?"
well, we already have the Ideas one (which for me kinda sucks).
want to see a really beautiful 8-wide Delorean? BrickVault's one is amazing, and I manage to build it for myself for around €30 in new parts. Highly recommended
This looks absolutely great! Confirming my initial thoughts upon seeing the first pictures emerging that this is definitely the right move! And I say this owning a lot of the older Speed Champions sets, so getting into 'trouble' displaying them side by side. I do agree however that generally bigger wheels would have been a smart move as well (not so much for this model maybe, but for others)
@ChicoCheco said:
"Nice review. What would be the actual scale? Would it be about 1:32 or are we getting close to 1:24? "
Over its length: 1:30, over its width 1:27.
8 stud wide is perfect for minifig scale. I see in City sets for 2020 they have cars with one stud wider, on each side of the car, from cabin, windscreen, that looks like transition, preparation, to get to 8 stud wide one day. 2021?
I think moving to 8 studs has made a night and day difference, and has always been my hesitation to investing in the Speed Champion series. The figures look great with the car, though the hair issue is disappointing.
@Wolfmanone said:
"It does look great. Hopefully the price stays the same at £12.99 for 1 car."
It went from $14.99 for the older 6 stud wide to $19.99 to the newer 8 stud wide, so I assume the price has increased across the board. Then again, the piece count, on this particular model, increased from a rough average of under 200 pieces to 275, so it's to be expected.
I will be in the minority here but I don't like this car at all. The real thing looks beautiful but the LEGO rendition to my eye looks like a total mess. Nothing elegant about it at all. The 8 stud width is the only redeeming feature imho.
I hope that the hair thing is a learning curve thing, and that by 2021, no models have the issye.
Otherwise, it looks great! In context, it will be a bit rough going from ~40 6 stud wide cars ro this, but it is for the better. And if the line goes for another 5 years, then these more proportionate build will stand out less. It could be a chance to update some of those early models too.
I was hoping these would only go up to £15, but I can stomach £18- still a good price per part for licensed stuff, and it's proportionate to the hike in price count.
Excellent review and a stunning looking car. Whilst I agree the extra studs allows for a better and more sporty looking car I think the wheel's now look to small. I usually work to 1 stud = 30cm, most cars are about 1.8m wide, so six studs wide worked perfectly for me. The width of the standard lego figure is again the main issue with scale.
Of course the bigger more detailed car (w/more pieces and higher price to boot) looks better. Heck, it looks like a tiny Creator Expert set. It will look great on a shelf, but as far as using these cars in my City as I had enjoyed in the past, those days are sadly over.
Holy cow! That is absolutely gorgeous. You know, I was never too interested in Speed Champions before changing to 8-wide, but man, I’m getting all of them now!
@Huw could we get the comparison shot of the 6 vs 8 wide Ferrari on a (modern) road baseplate and maybe with the bookshop behind it, please?
I wonder if the new one would actually look out of place in a City setting as many seem to fear.
The real versions of the cars are generally also bigger than the „average“ car, so that contrast should also translate to Lego City (where most cars are 4-6 wide).
Dammit! All nice until the comparison was made. Now my other Ferraris (Ferrari?) are just interpretations..
And yes it can be easily argued all Lego models are all interpretations in some fashion, I'm just highlighting how gorgeous this one is for less than 20 notes..
A better-proportioned car, sadly at the cost of being completely out of scale with minifigures and their world.
Not a car guy but this looks neat.
@Huw:
Beautiful photos! I'm really loving the new proportions!
"Note that I have modified the car to have the steering wheel on the correct, right, side."
I feel targeted.
Given the extent the which the designers were clearly bending over to make the cars as accurate as possible I always thought it was a bit bonkers they were 6 studs wide.
One downside to the 8-wide is that they won't look right with Lego City vehicles.
Looks like a great car, but the juniorization of the baseplate and to a lesser extent, the axle holders, are a bit of a disappointment personally. I like the printed windscreen still.
It's lovely. A real 'I'll pay full price for that' set.
I must admit that I was a bit reluctant with the 8-stud wide cars. I like the 6-stud wide cars of Speed Champions series until now and I bought some of them...even 3 from the last Ferrari F40 of this year. I also admit that with 8 studs the cars look more real, not so narrow. But for a kid in the 80s as me, who grew with 4-stud wide cars, passing from 4 to 6 was a great change. Now, another step forward.
From the new ones, I am only interested in this Ferrari and perhaps in the Jaguar cars, specially for the Formula E car. Let see first this one with 8 studs...
The question is: how will 4, 6 and 8 stud wide cars live together in my city???
I was not on board with the 8-wides at first, but I'm now fully convinced. A bit of a disappointment that the base is a single piece, but I am pleased that they made the middle section be 5-wide so the minifigs don't have to sit on jumper plates anymore. A shame about the hair issue though.
@Huw Do you know if the hair thing affects the Nissan too?
Not fan of 8 studs wide vechicles, but I love new pieces!
The day Lego Speed Champion cars began to look like cars has finally arrived.
Epic. I never realized how bad the LaFerrari looked.
@Huw said:
" @AstonVulcan said:
"... until they address that wheel size."
I guess they could have been a couple of mm bigger but I can't say I noticed that they might be too small until you mentioned it.
Increasing their diameter would have knock-on effects on the mudguards: they'd no longer fit within 4 studs, which is probably why they didn't increase them.
"
I just did a quick experiment and replaced the silver/grey wheels with Black ones, in the hope of making the wheels at least 'appear' larger than they are, but that didn't really work.
However, to be a little optimistic, the mud-guards of the later six-stud wide Speed Champions did eventually receive a revision (though not of scale, rather 'style'), so maybe the same will be true of the eight-stud wide line, as it develops. But then we will have to go back and retro-fit a bunch of wheels and mud-guards.
I do understand the problem that the designers were trying solve. But, we now have a new problem, the wheels. And the wheels are 'so' important to the overall impression. And not something that we can easily modify ourselves either.
So very much out the frying pan and in to the fire then with this latest transition in scale. A wasted opportunity for a fresh start I think.
See, I like the look of the skinnier Ferrari from years ago, it looks fine, to me.
The 8-wide just looks weirdly wide.
But Ferrari's always seem to look fantastic in Lego form. This is the one 8-wide car that I'd be genuinely tempted to get, but I still much prefer the 6 wide.
I haven’t purchased a Speed Champions set in my life, though my brother used to be in to the first waves big-time.
I will 100% be purchasing this set when I make my New Years trip for the Modular.
Love the 8 wide, might pick it up eventually.
I really would have much preferred it if the designers had used the price increase to justify an investment in the manufacture of new, larger, wheel/wheel arch toolings.
I'm gutted too that the designer has now publically stated that there will be no more of the larger Speed Champions Garages or Wind Tunnel sets, etc, accompanying these models. Just a pure focus on the car/IP.
Great review and thanks for crystallizing my thoughts on this...
...I buy and enjoy LEGO, in part, for the "toy cars" aspect, not "scale models". After all, the minifigure is way out of scale. I'll be enjoy my 6-wide collection for what it is and I'm happy for those for whom the new 8-wide bodies make them excited. We all win :)
That chassis piece would have saved me many hours of trouble with my MOCs. XD
I think the hair trouble is only because this car is quite short. Theoretically the taller cars like the Audi would not have this issue.
The car looks beautiful but I need time to process the scale change. I loved the cuteness factor of the 6 studs, now it has diminished a bit. Even with 6 studs, I kept the SC sets out of my town. The town is for 4 stud cars only. SC sets has a club of their own where they can hang together.
@ZinZinMoretto said:
" Correct left side, right?"
That's what I thought ;-)
Lego needs to make wider roads now!
"Note that I have modified the car to have the steering wheel on the correct, right, side."
Having been living, and thus driving in different countries on both sides of the roads, I like it better when driving on the right lane and having the steering on the left, just feels more comfortable. So I don't quite agree with the word 'correct' here... ;)
Haha of course back to the Lego, I love this set totally. The set is very well done in the 'correct scale' (now the word correct is truly correct), almost true to the original car's line and curve given the limited number of pieces. Will be looking forward to get it someday and hopefully to see more of such designs.
@AustinPowers said:
"I will be in the minority here but I don't like this car at all. The real thing looks beautiful but the LEGO rendition to my eye looks like a total mess. Nothing elegant about it at all. The 8 stud width is the only redeeming feature imho. "
I agree. Not quite seeing the appeal here with this particular set when compared to the real thing. I feel like you could remove all decals that let you know it’s a Ferrari and line it up next to a dozen similarly shaped red super cars and you wouldn’t be able to pick out which one it was supposed to be modeled after. Now, if I remove the need for it to look like the Tributo that it’s supposed to be I feel like it’s a great looking set, but that kind of defeats the purpose a bit.
That all said I very much like the Lamborghini Huracán that is to come and am excited to see what the future has in store for Speed Champions in the new 8-stud format. Overall I think it is a good move by LEGO.
The Lego design lead explains why the wheel size remains the same in this video - they were limited to how many new parts they could have and the chassi, wheel base and windscreens were deemed more important. https://youtu.be/spmpX1Z3fRE?t=218
If you desire greater accuracy, scale, detailing etc. I suggest you purchase a Tamiya kit and an airbrush.
This is a lovely Lego model.
@lamby750 said:
"If you desire greater accuracy, scale, detailing etc. I suggest you purchase a Tamiya kit and an airbrush.
This is a lovely Lego model."
The thing is though, the Six-Stud wide Speed Champions could easily be modified and improved to almost perfection.
However, with the new 8-Stud design, especially with the taller models, what do we do about the fixed, and too small, wheel/wheel arch design? The Nissan already looks like it is riding on roller skates.
+ After the change to 8-stud, the Ferrari above still doesn't look anything like the F8 Tributo, it could be almost any generic, red, wedge-shaped super-car. So the argument that 8-stud wide = improved accuracy/ and/or better representation instantly fails anyway.
Most of us, I think, if we want a decent, static car model, we probably also collect diecast 1/64, 1/43, 1/18 etc. But Speed Champions are different, they are something else, endlessly modifiable in the sense that from just the base model it is possible to contrive every sort of known variation of that particular car. And that was the fun of it.
@AstonVulcan said:
" But Speed Champions are different, they are something else, endlessly modifiable in the sense that from just the base model it is possible to contrive every sort of known variation of that particular car. And that was the fun of it. "
Why is that still not the case?
@Huw said:
" @AstonVulcan said:
" But Speed Champions are different, they are something else, endlessly modifiable in the sense that from just the base model it is possible to contrive every sort of known variation of that particular car. And that was the fun of it. "
Why is that still not the case?
"
Because now the most 'fundamental' part is wrong. The Wheels and the Wheel Arches.
And we can't do anything about that. We can't build our way around that. It has been taken out of our hands.
Because the designer decided that tooling a new chassis piece was more important than tooling new Wheel/Wheel Arches for the adjusted scale. And that provides an unfortunate restriction.
The roller-skate like wheels will become more apparent, I think, as and when you review the Jag and the Nissan etc.
@Cooliocdawg said:
"I think the hair trouble is only because this car is quite short. Theoretically the taller cars like the Audi would not have this issue."
The windscreen of this particular set is probably also a factor. Compared to cars like the Nissan, Audi, Jaguar I-PACE and Lamborghini Urus, which maintain a full six-stud width at the roof of the vehicle, the windscreen used for this set (and the Lamborghini Huracan) narrows to four studs wide at the top, with the 45 degree corner situated right in the center of where a minifigure's head would be located. As such, regardless of how much vertical clearance the figure has to sit in, there might still be less horizontal clearance than they need for their hair (less of a factor for the more or less spherical racing helmet).
Of course, if @Huw wanted a slick ride like this he wouldn't have that issue. ;)
Thanks for this great review, Huw! And I 100% agree with your thoughts, word by word. Of course I won't get rid of my 'old' Speed Champions, but I sure will be trying to upgrade them to 8-wides, whenever I can, with the help of the new parts of course. While waiting for them to be available, I even have already made a couple of conversions...
The Mini Cooper in the original 6-wide scale was only 4 studs wide. This means, that in this new 8-wide scale it should be 6-wide right? :-)
It looks nice, but the size is too big for any city layout. Which makes it a collector's model rather than a toy. Which seems to be the general trend with Lego.
The wheels are far too small, though, it gives a car a weird look.
I'm wondering how it looks on a street plate...
Is it me, or do the tail lights trans-orange on the box art?
I know there's some photoshopping/digital rendering going on the box arts, with a large orange glow to it, but this is pretty much a different color part entirely.
It's a fantastic model, but badly out of scale with the minifigures, whose height puts them around 1:43. A model that matches both the minifigures and the prototype car would be 6 studs wide and 13 studs long. (This is why Legoland cars have almost never seated two abreast.)
The trouble with trying to make things "minifig scale" is that minifigs are one scale by height and a different one by width. This is a particular problem with anything involving seated minifigs--such as a car intended to seat two figures side by side!
The passion in this review is second to none! Passion for the theme, the subject, the LEGO set...it’s a joy to read a review this thorough and enthusiastic.
@AstonVulcan said:
" @Huw said:
" @AstonVulcan said:
" But Speed Champions are different, they are something else, endlessly modifiable in the sense that from just the base model it is possible to contrive every sort of known variation of that particular car. And that was the fun of it. "
Why is that still not the case?
"
Because now the most 'fundamental' part is wrong. The Wheels and the Wheel Arches.
And we can't do anything about that. We can't build our way around that. It has been taken out of our hands.
Because the designer decided that tooling a new chassis piece was more important than tooling new Wheel/Wheel Arches for the adjusted scale. And that provides an unfortunate restriction.
The roller-skate like wheels will become more apparent, I think, as and when you review the Jag and the Nissan etc.
"
Glad Huw solved this in his research on the wheel size, which now actually appears to be correct.
Fast forward: https://brickset.com/article/47661/are-the-wheels-of-the-8-wide-ferrari-too-small
@Sparky_Ham:
They essentially did an 8-wide DeLorean with the BttF Ideas set. Just strip off all the time travel gear, clean up the surfaces a little, and completely overhaul the undercarriage (the car may be 8-wide, but the wheels are 10-wide).
@TomKazutara:
That may get financially tricky. Maybe. John DeLorean made a deal with Universal Studios for 5% of all BttF merchandising that features the car (meaning they'd get 5% of the Marty McFly Dimensions pack, but not the Doc Brown one that comes with the train). And that worked for years. Then a Texan auto parts warehouse realized they had tons of unsold DMC DeLorean parts on hand, and figured out that they could actually make complete cars with these parts. So, they worked a separate deal that gave them the right to use the DeLorean name...and because the contract failed to mention the Universal deal, a US court has ruled that the Texan company, as the sole legal user of DMC DeLorean name, is also the sole recipient of any royalties based on that name. The DeLorean family tried to sue them, but the case was tossed. However, any attempt to bring the DeLorean into the Speed Champions theme would require a new licensing agreement, and that would almost certainly draw a new lawsuit.
@merman:
It's an issue with the base color. The print colors are all designed to be used on a single base color, most likely white. Because the color layer is so thin, it allows some of the base color to read through. Really the only way to combat that is to run one or two passes with a layer of white before adding the color layer, which makes the deco process not only more expensive, but a misaligned print could result in a white halo showing on one or more sides of the intended print.
@inversion:
It also has its drawbacks. For about a decade I was really the only member of my LUG that focused on building cars that would fit in our layout. In the last couple years a few others have dabbled in it (one guy made a whole fleet of yellow school busses), and a few more just mass-produced cars as generic set dressing more than as true MOCs. But Speed Champions changed that, and a lot of these same people bought a bunch of Speed Champions sets to fill the streets on layouts where I would not be supplying cars. With lanes that are nine studs wide, 6-wide cars can easily pass each other, but 8-wide cars are actually nine studs wide at the fenders, and even wider when you count the sideview mirrors (this car looks to be about 12 studs wide at the mirrors). So everyone that started buying up Speed Champions to put on our layouts has pretty much sworn off buying any of the 2020+ models, because they'll look too wide on our layouts.
@shaase:
It's more a space issue in my LUG. The current generation of roadplates has six studs down each side, leaving a 20-stud roadway. The problem is that the sidewalks are way too small. Our trees are built using the 5x6 leaves, and the end result is just shy of 12 studs in diameter. They sit on a 3x3 base. So, just to keep them from touching the buildings, the sidewalks would really need to be 8 studs wide with the planters right up to the curb. That would only leave 16 studs of roadway, so we compromise by building the sidewalks out to seven studs, and the trees sometimes have to lean over the road a bit to fit next to the buildings. So, we really are over the limit if we start shifting to 8-wide cars. For myself, I've got Lightning McQueen, Holley Shiftwell (who is usually flying anyways), I Am...Batmobile (a Batmobile built in Pixar Cars style, the cargo boxes on two straight trucks, and a double-decker Routemaster that are all currently built with 8-stud bodies, and a completely custom Shellraiser from TMNT that's actually 13-wide due to those gigantic tires (and which is usually running on the train tracks). Everything else I designed is 6-wide, and the streets still feel a bit cramped.
Last year (2018) was the first year that I got all of the speed champions sets for the series (except I gave one to my brother) and I thought while building and playing with the cars that they needed to be wider so this is a dream come true!
I finally got this model this week and it's fantastic – great detail, fun build, all good ... until you try and put the minifigure in. As detailed in the review, it's impossible to fit with the supplied hair piece, but it actually doesn't fit with the helmet either – the canopy cannot be fully pushed down, it sits on the helmet to leave a slight gap at the sides and a slight ridge above the rest of the roof. I'm surprised this got past the quality control team; it's a really disappointing end to an otherwise excellent build.