BMW M4 GT3 & BMW M Hybrid V8 Race Cars

Building both cars is quick, clever, and mostly a joy right up until the decals. Each car uses the familiar Speed Champions eight-stud width, so there is real bracket work and sideways building packed into a small footprint, with neat little tricks to fake the diffusers, tailpipes, and rear wings. The roofs pop off so a driver can sit inside, which is a lovely touch that keeps these feeling like toys and not just models. The two builds are different enough in shape that you never feel like you are assembling the same car twice, and the M Hybrid V8's wedge nose in particular is a satisfying bit of slope stacking.

For parts people there is plenty here. The set brings nine new moulds, including 2x2 wedged slopes and 1x2 wedged tiles in fresh colourways, plus a new 1x1 printed tile for the Hybrid V8 air intake. The headline for collectors, though, is the grate-less cheese slopes in white and blue, an element builders had been asking about for ages and a genuinely useful part far beyond these cars. There are printed pieces scattered through both builds too, so it is not all sticker sheet, but the balance leans harder on decals than a lot of us would like. Take the parts as a bonus and the two finished racers as the main event.