What is Top Gear’s favourite toy of 2022?

There are a lot of similarities between Ikea furniture and a Lego set, but it’s funny how one can be used as a home-wrecking instrument of torture while the other is sure to bring hours of fun. Must be the fun little pictures in the instruction booklet. 

And then when you consider how much we love Ferraris at Top Gear any toy that makes a Venn diagram out of our favourite things is on to a winner. Sure, this Lego Technic Ferrari Daytona SP3 kit is a £390 Lego set, but when you’re building a £2m Ferrari that’s already sold out, you’ll have to be pragmatic about getting into ownership. 

It’s one of Lego’s largest sets, too, with 3,998 pieces. We don’t particularly fancy counting up all of those when one of them goes missing, but this is the sort of thing that you can justify by saying it’s for the kids and then you follow through by not letting them touch any of it.

Much like the real Daytona SP3, the Lego version of the exclusive Ferrari is hand built by the finest craftspeople using carryover parts from other models in the company range. Unlike the Lego version, Ferrari’s finest craftspeople won’t spend 20 minutes howling through the house when they realise they missed a page and built the door wrong. 

The model version of the car comes complete with a V12 engine that has moving pistons, a working eight-speed sequential gearbox and a detachable roof. But sadly it doesn’t have any of the real Daytona SP3’s fluttering eyelids that we enjoy so much. 

What automotive-themed toys are on your Christmas list this year?