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Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quattrovalvole

The bedroom-poster wedge in white and dark red, built without a single sticker.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 10337 · 2024

Pieces1,506

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number10337

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The verdict

If the Countach was the car taped to your wall as a kid, this one goes straight for the heart.

It nails that impossible wedge silhouette and every marking is printed, not stuck on, which I love more than I can say. Just know the white bodywork has that slightly patchwork look up close, and there are no pop-up headlights, which stings a little on a car this famous for them.

Best for: Grown-up car fans who want a clean display piece and don't need it to be a toy.

The full review

What it is

There's a very specific kind of person this LEGO® set is aimed at, and if the Lamborghini Countach was the car taped to your bedroom wall in the eighties, you already know it's you. This is the 5000 Quattrovalvole, the big-winged, wedge-shaped icon that basically defined what a supercar was supposed to look like, and LEGO has rendered it in crisp white with dark red accents at a chunky display scale. The thing that won me over first wasn't the doors or the engine. It was finding out there isn't a single sticker in the box. Every marking, the Lamborghini badge, the dashboard dials, the little notices at the rear, all of it is printed straight onto the pieces. On a car this clean and this white, that matters a lot, because a peeling sticker would ruin the whole effect.

The catch

I'll be straight with you about the caveats, because they're real. The white is gorgeous from across a room and a little less convincing up close, where you can see the bodywork is stitched together from lots of differently shaped white pieces that don't all catch the light the same way. Reviewers kept calling it a mosaic effect and that's fair. The bigger heartbreak for purists is the headlights. The real Countach had those wonderful pop-up units, and here they're fixed, so one of the car's best tricks just isn't in the box. Then there's the money. At around 179 dollars for 1,506 pieces, this isn't the most generous set LEGO makes by weight, and plenty of people online are quietly waiting for it to drop in price before they commit. The Brickset community landed at about 4.2 out of 5, which feels about right to me, warm but not worshipful.

Who it's for

So who should actually bring this home. If you love the Countach specifically, or the wedge era of supercars generally, grab it and don't overthink it, because the silhouette is spot on and it looks fantastic on a shelf next to a lamp. If you've got kids who want to zoom it around the floor, this isn't that. The doors and finer details aren't built to survive rough play, it's a display model through and through. And if you're the sort of builder who lives for dense, clever engineering across every bag, you might find the middle stretches a little straightforward for the price. But for the right person, the one who gasped a little at the photos, this is a happy, satisfying build that ends in a genuinely lovely object. I'd wait for a sale if you can, then enjoy it without guilt.

The parts story

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

The build runs in a logical order that keeps things interesting. You start with Technic frames for the floor and structure, move into the cockpit with its printed dashboard and upholstered seats, wire up a working steering setup, and only then start draping the bodywork over the top. That last stage is where the angular panels and slopes go on, and it's a bit like slowly revealing the shape you've been waiting for. A few of the sub-assemblies are genuinely satisfying, especially the way sections click together like puzzle pieces, though the middle of the build is more calm than fiendish. It's rated 18+ and there's some fiddly angled work near the wheel arches, but nothing here should scare an experienced builder.

For parts people, there's real interest. The set introduces three brand-new molds: a dual-sided wheel (part 5650), a smaller Brick Round Corner 4x4x1 (part 5649) made specifically to shape those tricky wheel arches, and a Slope 1x4 with a 1x2 cutout (part 5654) that comes in both white and dark red. On top of that you get exclusive dark red palisade bricks, a trans-black windscreen and a batch of white curved slopes that only show up in a couple of other sets. The headline for me is still the printing, seven printed elements doing the work a sticker sheet usually does. At 1,506 pieces the raw part-count value is only okay, so the case here isn't quantity, it's the specialized shapes and those clean printed pieces you can't easily get anywhere else.

Fun facts

01The real 5000 Quattrovalvole debuted at the 1985 Geneva Motor Show, and Quattrovalvole means four valves per cylinder, the upgrade that pushed its V12 to as much as 455 horsepower in European trim.
02Only 610 QV models were built between 1985 and 1988, making the car LEGO chose one of the rarer Countach variants.
03The QV's signature engine-cover bulge exists because the carburetors were moved to the top of the engine for cooling, which famously cut rear visibility down to almost nothing.
04The Countach's wedge shape was penned by Marcello Gandini at Bertone, and LEGO reproduced all of its markings with printed pieces rather than including any stickers at all.