Friday 26 May 2017

Smash It Up: Watch a Lego Porsche GT3 RS Get Crash Tested by Germany’s ADAC [Video]

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Lego Porsche 911 GT3 RS Crash Test

The Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), Germany’s equivalent of our AAA, knows what the populace likes. Few people hate Legos—we can think only of parents who’ve stepped on errant bricks in the middle of the night—and a great many more carry on an affair with the Danish toys long into adulthood. There’s not a car nerd alive who can’t appreciate at least some aspect of Porsche’s legendary 911 GT3 RS and who doesn’t have a fascination with destruction of a type that seems hardwired into the human psyche. ADAC simply went where the eyeballs were and combined the two.

So the German motorists’ association assembled one of Lego’s spendy, hyperdetailed 1:8-scale 911 GT3 RS kits, then set up a miniature impact run where the car was subjected to a 28-mph crash test. That’s a scale speed (a sales tactic beloved by slot-car manufacturers of the 1980s) of 224 mph, significantly beyond the real car’s under-200-mph maximum velocity.



The result? Well, watch for yourself below. It’s satisfyingly magnificent.


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