City

Car Transporter Truck with Sports Cars

A big rig plus three little cars, and honestly the cars steal it.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 60408 · 2024

Pieces998

Minifigs4

Year2024

Set number60408

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The verdict

This is four builds in one box, and the trailer truck is only half the fun.

You also get a '50s tail dragger, a chunky '70s muscle car, and a sleek electric supercar, which is a genuinely charming spread of eras. It's a great pick for a car-mad kid who wants to load and unload and roll things around all afternoon. I just wish it landed a little cheaper for what you get.

Best for: Car-obsessed kids age 7 and up who love a load-and-go playset

The full review

What it is

There's something I've always loved about a car transporter, and this LEGO® set leans right into it. You get the articulated rig up front with a detachable dual-level trailer, and then three cars to ride on it: a '50s-style tail dragger, a '70s-style muscle car, and a modern electric supercar. That little parade of eras is the smartest thing about the box. It turns what could be one truck build into a proper play scene, and kids tend to reach for the cars first and the truck second. Designer Corvin Stichert packed it with the kind of functions that make a seven-year-old grin: you tilt the cab to reach the engine, drop the upper and lower ramps to load two levels of cars, flip out the support struts so the trailer stands on its own, and hitch or unhitch the whole thing.

The catch

Now for the honest bit about the money. At $99.99 for 998 pieces, this sits a touch high for the City theme, working out to around ten cents a brick when a lot of City sets come in a little under that. The three cars are also small and quick, so most of your piece count and most of your build time is really going into the truck and trailer. If you were picturing three detailed Speed Champions style cars, dial that back a notch, because these are simpler City-scale vehicles built for play and rough handling rather than shelf display. And if you collect for parts, there's not much unusual tucked in here. It's a solid, sensible parts palette without a headline new mold to chase. Brickset builders have it sitting right around 4.0 out of 5, which feels about fair to me.

Who it's for

So who should grab it? A car-mad kid who loves loading, unloading, and rolling things around the floor will get hours out of this, and the mix of a hot rod, a muscle car, and an electric supercar quietly teaches a bit of automotive history along the way. Grown-up collectors chasing display pieces or rare parts can happily skip it. But as a playset that keeps giving, with four vehicles and four minifigs to shuffle around a City layout, it earns its keep. Just try to catch it on a discount, because at full price you're paying a small premium for the fun.

The parts story

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

The build breaks into four clean chunks, which is lovely if you're building alongside a kid, because there's a finish line every twenty minutes or so. You knock out the three little cars first, and they come together fast, each one a quick hit of shaping before you move on. Then you settle into the main event: the cab, with its tilt-forward engine access, and the long dual-level trailer with its ramps, struts, and hitch. The trailer is where the real engineering lives, and getting those upper and lower decks to drop and lock is the satisfying part. All in, most people report around two to three hours, and it never gets fiddly enough to frustrate a confident seven-year-old.

On pieces, this is a workhorse palette rather than a treasure chest. You get a nice run of the long trailer and Technic-style connection elements that make the loading action work, plenty of wheels and axles across four vehicles, and the printed pieces you'd want for headlights, grilles, and dashboards rather than stickers doing all the lifting. Four minifigs come along, all unique to this set, with fun little extras like a medic kit and a fire extinguisher. There's no brand new mold here to send parts hunters running, so the value story is really about breadth: nearly a thousand parts spread across a rig and three cars, which is a generous spread of playable builds even if the per-brick price runs a little rich.

Fun facts

01The three cars span three eras on purpose: a '50s-style tail dragger hot rod, a '70s-style muscle car, and a present-day electric supercar, so the trailer carries about seventy years of car design at once.
02It was designed by LEGO's Corvin Stichert and launched in 2024 with a $99.99 / £89.99 / €99.99 price tag.
03The finished rig and trailer stretch about 18 inches (46 cm) long, which is a proper tabletop-hogging size for a City vehicle.
04Every one of the four minifigures is unique to this set, so they're not faces you'll find recycled across the rest of the 2024 City lineup.