Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone hid £1.35m in trusts from HMRC in the year beginning April 6, 2015 and was handed a penalty of the same amount. The details are revealed in the latest list of deliberate tax defaulters published by HMRC. Rail, bus and road services will be disrupted in Cardiff on Wednesday when some city centre access will be restricted for … [Read more...]
400,000 parts in latest ‘Lamborghini’
Automobili Lamborghini in collaboration with the LEGO Group has built a life-size replica of the Lamborghini Sián FKP 37, using over 400,000 LEGO® Technic™ elements. Following the launch of the 1:8 scale LEGO® Technic™ Lamborghini Sián FKP 37 last year, this life-size model replicates the limited-edition Italian super sportscar on a much grander … [Read more...]
Newslines 3 February
Automobili Lamborghini and The LEGO Group announce the new partnership introducing the first ever Lamborghini super sports car by LEGO Technic, the building system that allows older kids and adults to create more advanced, complex models. The new series will launch this summer. Production of the three-year-old Mercedes-Benz X-class pickup is ending in … [Read more...]
Newslines 30 June
McLaren fans will have a chance to build a 720S at Goodwood - out of Lego. The model will arrive at the motoring festival assembled from 267,300 bricks but fans can add the final 12,700 over the event, and then it’ll weigh 1.6 tonnes, more than the real car. An alarming number of Brits could soon be driving on unsafe part-worn tyres, as new research by … [Read more...]
Building the world’s largest LEGO brick caravan
To celebrate 130 years of leisure caravanning this year, the team behind the national Motorhome & Caravan Show is aiming for a new Guinness World Record by building the largest ever touring caravan made of LEGO bricks. Requiring more than 150,000 individual interlocking plastic LEGO bricks, the life-size model caravan will be completed and officially … [Read more...]