Review: 76907 Lotus Evija

I had hoped to get the Ferrari and Lamborghini yesterday (no luck though...), but his Lotus is an easy pass for me. Even with all the interesting building techniques and part usages, it just doesn't look anything like the real thing. And that windscreen piece is just terrible. I bet the designer tried the best he could, but some thing just don't work in Lego. Which is a shame, since so many Lotus models would have worked so much better.

Definitely the most pedestrian single this year, but I do still like it a lot. The printed headlights work better in person that I was expecting- they're a clear improvement on stickers, but I always like it when a car has a brink built approximation of the lights, though in this case I accept that it wasn't possible. And speaking of lights, I love how they did the rear lights.

Minimal stickers on this one, as designed you could almost do without. Actually, despite the line's reputation, as far as the singles go the stickers are fairly restrained. You'll still struggle to recolour this one thanks to the printed elements, but there's a slot of uninterrupted green here.

Harsh perhaps, but this one have way too many annoyances for my liking. I will pass, because it misses the target in an "uncanny valley" kind of way for me. It looks kind of like a real car, but not at all at the same time, and it's generally a bit too far towards generic toy car for me.
Many people point out the bad printing of the canopy/windscreen, with the line sitting too high. For me, the fact that the line bends the wrong way is much worse than the placement. It creates a wobbly line rather than one continuous curve around the entire canopy, it totally breaks the appearance of the whole thing. And I never liked the shape of that element in the first place, it has too many weird sharp edges that does not fit any modern car. It works for the Countach, but that is an extremely angular car, and not modern anyway.
They also missed the front bonnet shape. I see why they wanted to utilize those new headlight elements, but I think those left them with too little space to shape the surface between them. Doesn't give me any Evija vibes at all. The real car is again much smoother and certainly doesn't have that pointy raised middle section.
The sides and the back are ok for what it is at this scale, and it looks like a really good build. But there are now so many good examples of what can be done in the Speed Champions line that the less perfect examples stand out, like this one.
Hope they stay with Lotus though. Great brand with many interesting cars that should do great in Lego form.

Overall, this was not the strongest of the Speed Champions but am glad to have it in my collection. Lotus is such an iconic brand and it had to be BRG with yellow, had to. Initially I was not enthralled with the change to 8 wide, but it is growing on me as models come out.

The irony of these larger 8 wide cars is that they're ridiculously oversized for minifigures. Most of these sports cars are quite small IRL.

Can’t wait to get this…haven’t seen it in the wild yet and it’s OOS online. But it will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Nice review, and I do like that LEGO appears to be going a bit more toward printed parts in their Speed Champion sets, including the 2x2 round 'wheel' prints for the Lambo. I also like the crafty use of the snowboard piece as the spoiler. Though with an electric car, maybe start showing these guys with a laptop computer part instead of just a wrench. Mercifully, these Speed Champion sets tend to get discounted to 15.99 here in the US by the likes of Amazon, so at least if feels like I'm getting a good deal on these.. Then again they are pretty complex models, maybe 16 USD for these newer ones is just right.

Nice review, I wasn't too interested in this set. I bought the Countach day 1, and the Ferrari is on my wish list, but this too will now be added to my wish list.
I really like the different & unique way the designer came up with of forming the unusual tail lights. This car is certainly difficult to replicate with all the slick curves & angles, for me, the designer did capture enough of the overall feel of the Lotus Evija to want to add it to my collection.

Despite the wonky canopy print and minor inaccuracies, I think I'll pick this one up to go with 76895.

That final image with the Lambo and Fazza is very revealing. Those two are easily recognisable just by glancing at them: one is a Countach, the other is a 512. Superb.

However this Lotus is just an unrecognisable blob of shapes. It’s not that Lego did a bad job, it’s the fault of the car being very hard to translate into brick compared to those other two.

I think the AMG One fares much better because it has definite shapes and details that can be rendered in Lego and still be recognisable. It’s just that… if the Evija was released in a different colour and featured a different badge on the front, to depict a different modern supercar then I don’t think anybody would tell the difference.

Excellent line-up imho. The brick built tail lights are nicely done, and very welcome!

Just built this one, some strange building techniques indeed! All the dark green pieces were a big selling point for me. The printed read window piece was a nice surprise, though mine came a little scraped up.

I really love this whole wave of Speed Champions sets. When I saw the Lambo(my favorite matchbox as a kid, in the same color), it made me buy every set in the category I could find in anticipation of that one being released. I’m not a car guy at all, but I really enjoy building these cars.