Fast Bricks: 6-wide Speed Champions

Looks like they've missed the opportunity to add engine detail. Also, can they fit minifigs?

Haven't bought a single 2020 Speed Champions set, not because they don't look great (they do), they just don't scale well in my city. I could put them on a shelf, and would still like to acquire a few to do so, however that niche is pretty well filled (over full to the point of building more shelves). If I see this book for a decent price I might have to buy it, if only for the first 3 cars. I find it refreshing these builds don't rely on stickers, which are typically decried on here (I don't mind them, as OCD plus good stickers equal nice extra details). The Hurrican isn't bad minus the camera - as much as I'd love to I have no room to build a full on race track to place such a creation in its' proper setting. Yeah, it could go on a shelf as well, which leads to above problem, and besides it's pretty darn goofy looking :)

Yikes indeed. None of these look recognizable.

The alleged Miata looks more like a Nissan Fairlady as noted above, and the C8 Corvette and Huracan look more like generic Grand Theft Auto supercars. Even the Fiat looks barely recognizable without its signature curves.

This just shows exactly why the switch to 8 wide was the right move.

The thing with the shift to 8-wide designs is that it failed to add any significantly better design aspects to the cars they're attempting to portray while breaking the vehicle scale with the Lego road baseplates. The GT-R in particular looked like trash from most angles and really looks nothing like a GT-R except for the stickers, yet the 6-wide cars often looked just as good as anything 8-wide designed since.
It makes no sense to take a line (Speed Champions) designed to scale with the rest of Lego City sets that actually scale properly for a city display using city street baseplates, and then change it up halfway through the line, breaking the scale while adding no real benefit by doing so.
If adding two more to the width actually made a significant difference in helping the cars look more like their real-world counterparts, that would have at least made sense, but considering how they look no better than the 6-wide versions, it's a real head-scratcher why they would think it was worth breaking the scale.
And if we're honest, neither the 6-wide nor the 8-wide look very good, it's the stickers that make them work at all as passable representations of the real-world cars. And while I hate stickers and would prefer everything be printed tiles, the 6-wide ones looked good enough with the stickers applied. The 8-wide look no better, they're just over-sized for the City baseplates. I stopped buying SC sets with the change to 8-wide.

These all look pretty generic to me. Definitely not worth paying that much money for some instructions. You can easily find free alternative builds online

Wow. That is so inaccurate. So dissapointing.

I like what’s being done here, but for me the designs just highlight why Lego made the switch to 8 wide

Miata look more like a Corvette than Corvette C8

That Fiat is about the only recognizable car here

Not a fan I have to say. Was trying to guess the cars from the picture and failed. The only name I got was the Corvette, but I was actually looking at the MX5.

Having said that I'm not a big fan of the 8 wide cars at all.

I'm not really in love with these designs or the price point of the book, but I also disagree with people saying that this "proves" that SC doesn't work without stickers, or that they should always have been 8-wide. There's tons of outstanding 6-wide SC-scale content out there. Check out work by Jonathan Elliott, arguably the master of Speed Champions MOCs, whose work is predominantly 6-wide. Or Hachoroku24. Or Rolling Bricks. Or even my own stuff (Tom Gion on flickr) or countless others. 6-wide, sticker-free Speed Champions can look fantastic! This just ain't a good example of how.

Whoops, typo above. The builder's handle is Hachiroku24.

As everyone said, I coulden’t recognise any models of the cars shown above, not sure what the designer had in mind, but it proves this scale models needs plenty of stickers..

This book... meh.

@Mr__Thrawn:
My LUG uses the current roadplates which have six-stud curbs, leaving 20 studs of road, or 10 studs per lane. Then we add 7-stud sidewalks to these roadplates, reducing each lane to 9 studs. An 8-wide car is actually 10 studs wide when you add in the sideview mirrors, meaning there's no longer enough room for the cars to pass each other. I make most of the cars that we use on our LUG's layouts, and I primarily stick to a 6-wide scale. The few exceptions I've made are a box truck that has a 6-wide cab with an 8-wide cargo box, a vintage double-decker Routemaster bus, and Lightning McQueen and Holley Shiftwell from Pixar's Cars. Any future busses I make will be 8-wide. Some vehicles just need to be wider to look right, and if your regular sedans are already too wide, anything wider becomes a serious problem.

Besides that, the City sets have finally switched to 6-wide as a standard vehicle scale, and now it's like trying to mix the original run of Speed Champions with Tiny Turbos cars.