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Ford Model T

The most important car ever built, rendered as a surprisingly gentle black-brick build.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 11376 · 2026

Pieces1,060

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number11376

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The verdict

This is one of those sets where the history matters more than the drama.

It's a 1,060-piece LEGO® set of the 1913 Runabout, all gleaming black bodywork and pearl-gold trim, and it won me over the way the real car won over America: slowly, on sheer character. If you love automotive history or the early 20th century, you'll adore fiddling with the hand crank and the fold-back roof. If you build for wild engineering, you might find it a touch quiet.

Best for: History-minded car fans who want charm over spectacle

The full review

What it is

Some sets grab you by the collar. This one taps you on the shoulder and tells you a story. The Ford Model T (11376) landed in the Icons line in March 2026, and it recreates the 1913 Runabout, the bold early roadster version, in 1,060 pieces of deep black bodywork with pearl-gold accents. It sits in a funny spot in the Icons garage. It's arguably the most historically significant vehicle LEGO has ever made, and also one of the least flashy to look at. That contradiction is basically the whole personality of the thing, and once you accept it, the set is a real charmer. The tall spoked wheels, the slim white tyres, the upright cab, the little folding roof: it all reads as 1910s the second you finish it.

The catch

Now for the honest bits, because I like you too much to gloss over them. At $129.99 for 1,060 pieces you're paying around 12 cents a part, which is on the higher side even accounting for the four new molds. The cloth soft top is the part most reviewers grumble about, and fairly so. There's no clean way to fold it, so it creases, and you end up gently forcing it down to keep it from tearing at the seams. Scale nerds have also pointed out the wheels run about 1.5 times larger than the ones on sets like the Camaro or Lamborghini, so the whole car sits a touch bigger and taller than its Icons shelf-mates, which can look slightly off if you park them side by side. And there's a well-documented illegal building technique in the headlight area where bricks overlap and put stress on their neighbours, which purists will notice. None of these are dealbreakers, but they're real, and they're why this lands as very good rather than perfect.

Who it's for

So who should grab this one. If you're drawn to automotive history, or you have a soft spot for the machine that put the world on wheels, this is an easy yes. It's a calm, pleasant, genuinely educational build with enough working features to keep your hands busy, and it displays beautifully in that vintage way. If your idea of a great build is clever mechanisms and jaw-drop reveals, temper your expectations, because this is a quieter kind of joy. The community rating sits around 3.9 out of 5, which feels about right: a lovely, slightly imperfect tribute to a car that changed everything. I came away fond of it, creased roof and all.

The parts story

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

The build runs in a logical, satisfying order. You start with the chassis, move through the engine bay, then the fenders, and finish with that tricky soft top. It's a gentle pace with a few genuinely clever moments: bars fitted with droid arms create the opening bonnet mechanism, and the roof uses a three-section frame draped in fabric to get that fold-back look. The steering actually works, the split windshield folds down, the passenger door opens, and there's a hand crank up front that spins a little fan. It's not a technical marathon, but it's never boring, and it teaches you a surprising amount about how these early cars were put together.

The pieces are where enthusiasts will perk up. There are four new molds here: the 75 x 13 tyre in white, the 56mm spoked wheel in black, a 9 x 5 double-curved windscreen bar in trans-clear, and the black cloth soft top. Those spoked wheels alone are worth a look, and that new windscreen curve has real potential for custom builds (someone's already eyeing it for sci-fi doors). You also get a fresh pearl-gold 1x2 tile printed with the Ford logo in a typeface based on Henry Ford's own handwriting, plenty of recolored black curves, arches and slopes for the bodywork, and a small dark-orange steering wheel that's appeared in only one other set. At roughly 12 cents a piece it's not a bargain by part count, but the new molds and printed logo carry a good chunk of that cost.

Fun facts

01Ford built roughly 15 million Model Ts between 1908 and 1927, a production record that stood until the Volkswagen Beetle finally passed it in 1972.
02Henry Ford's moving assembly line cut the time to build one car from over 12 hours down to about 93 minutes, which helped drop the price from $780 in 1910 to just $290 by 1924.
03The famous line about buying it in any color as long as it's black wasn't even true at first: from 1908 to 1913 the Model T came in gray, green, blue and red, and the all-black policy only kicked in around 1914.
04The pearl-gold Ford logo tile is printed in a typeface modeled on Henry Ford's actual signature, a small nod to the man behind the machine.