Nine of our favourite Lego car kits

Perhaps the finest supercar ever made meets arguably the world’s best toy. There are 1,158 pieces in this Ferrari F40 set, none of which makes the steering function, offers reciprocating cylinders or squashy suspension. But would you just look at it?

The Beetle doesn’t really lend itself to immortalisation in brick form, does it? The world’s best-selling automobile is rather curvy, see, and Lego, as you’ll know from treading on it at 2am, really isn’t. So, Lego cheated and invented several new pieces. Not fair!

This is more like it. A collection of familiar standard pieces which collectively couldn’t be anything other than the ’59 Cadillac station wagon driven by Bill Murray & Co. in the 1984 classic. Just try building it without humming Ray Parker Jr’s dance floor filler... 

OK, so this Technic LMP1-style prototype isn’t based on a particular modern racer, but they all look the same, so we’re not complaining. It’s got working gullwing doors, a whirring V8 engine and probably won’t be humiliated by a Porsche on the final lap.

Good one for the budding Adrian Newey, this. It’s a fairly simple Technic F1-style kit, but, more importantly, the chassis encloses a sprung pull-back-and-go motor. Because the youth of the day have no time for tiresomely powering their creations along the carpet themselves. 

Here, you get a pitbox garage, a Seventies Porsche 917K Le Mans racer and its modern successor, the two-time LM-winning 919 hybrid: the makings of 24-hour playtime. A set of raucous French spectator mini figures is an optional extra. Not really. 

We don’t just like this because it’s the world’s favourite failed Irish sports car cum iconic Hollywood time machine. It’s one of the sets Lego agreed to make after it scored hundreds of thousands of signatures in an online vote. Great Scott, etc.

Bit disappointed by Batman vs Superman? We were too. But if kitsch comic capers are more your thing, we like the look of this less brutal Batmobile, giving chase to The Riddler, who’s somehow got his hands on a dragster. And there’s The Flash, for some reason. Anyone?