The recently announced marriage between LEGO and Top Gear has given birth to its first child. No, it’s not a LEGO Stig - it’s the Top Gear GT Rally Car, and it’s not your typical LEGO set. It’s a creation of LEGO Technic, which means that you can expect it to be trickier and far more complicated than your run-of-the-mill build. The Top Gear GT Rally Car is the first of what should be a series of kits that will be co-created by LEGO and Top Gear. There’s no word on what the future products will look like, but you can expect this set to go on sale at the end of the year.

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It didn’t take long, did it? When LEGO and Top Gear announced their partnership last month, many people, myself included, believed that it would take a few months before the first product from this collabo would arrive. It would’ve still been a fast turnaround. But we didn’t know it would be Top Gear fast.

Top Gear} How else could they have launched the Top Gear GT Rally Car this quickly? Chances are, the development of the product was already underway when we learned that both sides would be working together, and as surprising as it is to see the quick turnaround, I am not complaining. Not one bit.

The Top Gear GT Rally Car is the kind of LEGO Technic set that a lot of people will enjoy building, even if they’re neophytes in the LEGO-building scenery. That’s especially for kits that include working engines, transmissions, and differentials.

That’s the kind of build that you need to prepare for when you buy the Top Gear GT Rally Car. Fortunately, it’s not as complicated as past LEGO Technic sets that involve thousands of different pieces — or “elements,” as LEGO describes them. Top Gear} You’re probably wondering what the latter is for, right?

Top Gear GT Rally Car is also a radio-controlled rally car.> Once you’ve finished building the car, you can access its operational capabilities through the LEGO Technic Control+ smartphone app. It is through this app that you can control the car through a multi-touch control. You can move it forward. You can move it backward. There’s even a gyro control capability that allows you to steer the car and turn it into a somewhat-legitimate rally car. Unfortunately, the rally course comes separately.

Functions aside, the LEGO Technic Top Gear GT Rally Car comes with all the usual vanity trims you often see in real-life rally racers.There’s four of them and they all have “Stig” plastered all over them. The “Stig” decal is part of a big sticker package that also includes a few sponsors, racing numbers, and the unmistakable Top Gear logo on each side of the doors. Then there’s the massive rear wing.this}

Speaking of which, the LEGO Technic Top Gear GT Rally Car will be available on December 26, 2019. That’s the day after Christmas, which means that, for our friends in the U.K., that’s also Boxing Day. If you’re interested in buying a late Christmas present for yourself, this new product from LEGO Technic and Top Gear would be hard to dismiss.

For comparison’s sake, the 3,599-piece LEGO Technic Bugatti Chiron costs $350 while the 1,499-piece LEGO Technic Porsche 911 RSR will set you back $149.

Thanks to its combination of modest size, drivability, and affordability, the LEGO Technic Top Gear GT Rally Car is the perfect set to build if you’re into Top Gear, rally cars, radio-controlled cars, and cheap LEGO Technic sets. It’s a win-win-win-win scenario for everybody.