Technic

2022 Ford GT

The supercar Technic set that finally doesn't cost a fortune to bring home.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 42154 · 2023

Pieces1,466

Minifigsn/a

Year2023

Set number42154

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The verdict

This is the Technic supercar for the rest of us, and I love that it exists.

At its $119.99 launch price you get real four-wheel suspension, a see-through V6, and those butterfly doors, for a fraction of what the Lamborghini or Bugatti asks. It won me over slowly, because the near-black-and-blue color mix is genuinely hard to read, but by the end I was grinning. If you want a proper Technic car without the four-figure sting, this is the one.

Best for: Newer Technic builders who want a real supercar without the flagship price

The full review

What it is

There's a whole club of LEGO® Technic supercars that most of us just admire from a distance, because the Lamborghini Sian and the Bugatti Chiron cost about as much as a real car payment. So the 2022 Ford GT walking in at $119.99 for 1,466 pieces feels like being let in the side door of a very expensive party. And it doesn't feel cheap once you're inside. You get rear-wheel drive with a differential, a working six-cylinder engine with moving pistons, independent suspension on all four corners, front-axle steering, an opening hood and boot, a rear spoiler you can raise, and those show-stopping butterfly doors. For the money, that's a lot of car.

The catch

There are a few things I'll be straight with you about, though. The biggest one caught me completely off guard, because the dark blue and the black elements are so close in tone that in normal room light they read as the same color. Plenty of builders, me included, ended up shining a phone torch on the pieces just to be sure they had the right one, and getting it wrong means backtracking. The butterfly doors, gorgeous as they are, hide a fiddly secret. The L-shaped Technic bracket that swings them tends to catch in the open sides of the chassis, so you'll be nudging it free more often than you'd like. The set leans on stickers rather than printed panels, which always stings a little at this price, and the headlights came out oversized. LEGO printed part of them darker to shrink the look, but it doesn't fully land. None of these are dealbreakers, but you should know they're there.

Who it's for

So who should bring this home? If you're newer to Technic and you've been eyeing those flagship supercars without wanting to remortgage anything, this is your entry ticket, and a genuinely satisfying four-hour build that never gets too repetitive. It's also a lovely shelf piece at 39cm long, especially with the doors up. If you're a die-hard collector who needs pixel-perfect accuracy or you can't stand stickers, you might feel the shortcuts more keenly, and the flagships will scratch that itch better. But for what it costs, the Ford GT punches so far above its weight that I keep recommending it. It's the Technic supercar I'd hand someone who says the hobby has gotten too expensive.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build runs a little over four hours and moves through the car the way you'd hope, chassis and drivetrain first, then bodywork, then the doors and details. The early going is the classic Technic pleasure of watching a gearbox and differential come together, and the see-through V6 gets assembled so you can actually follow the pistons connecting to the crankshaft. It's not a repetitive build, which is a real compliment for a car this size, but it does ask you to pay close attention, because each step changes small things and it's easy to drift onto autopilot and miss one. The suspension goes in on all four corners, the steering links up through a gear on the roof, and the doors come last with that ball-joint linkage that makes them swing.

The headline piece is the transparent engine housing, which turns the whole V6 into a display feature you never have to take apart to enjoy. The wheels and low-profile tires are chunky and satisfying, and the ball-joint-and-L-beam door mechanism is the sort of small clever engineering that makes Technic fun to reverse-engineer in your head. On value, this is where the set really argues its case: at the $119.99 launch price you're paying roughly eight cents per piece, which is strong for a licensed supercar, and you're getting genuine working functions rather than just panels. Don't buy it hunting for rare or new molds, that's not this set's story. Buy it because the part count, the functions, and the price line up better here than on almost any other Technic car.

Fun facts

01The real 2022 Ford GT hides a twin-turbo 3.5-liter V6 making around 650bhp and stickers at roughly $500,000, so the LEGO version is a spectacular bargain by comparison.
02The car's silhouette is a deliberate tribute to the 1960s Ford GT40, the legend that famously beat Ferrari at Le Mans and inspired the whole 'Ford v Ferrari' story.
03This is LEGO's second crack at the modern GT, following the smaller Speed Champions set 75881 that paired the 2016 Ford GT with a 1966 GT40.
04At 1:12 scale the finished model is about 39cm long and 18cm wide, big enough that the raised butterfly doors turn it into a proper centerpiece.