One of our members sent in photos of their finished Porsche GT4 e-Performance (42176), and it came out looking exactly right. The black and blue with a few splashes of red suits a race car, and it looks properly quick sitting on the carpet. This one’s been a quiet favourite in the library since we added it.
The Technic car you drive instead of push
The real car is the Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 e-Performance, an electric car built for racing. LEGO’s version has no pistons to turn over. It is built around the Technic Move Hub, a grey brick with three motors and six LED outputs inside it and a removable battery that charges over USB-C, and you drive it round the room from the Control+ app on a phone or tablet.
At 834 pieces it is one evening at the table, and the hub does a lot of the structural work. The two rear motors turn the rear wheels directly, motor C at the front steers through a rack and pinion, and four transparent light links carry light from the hub to the headlights and tail lights. The doors open. That is the whole list: there is no engine, no gearbox and no suspension.
What stands out at the bench
The proportions land well. A modern Porsche is a tricky shape to get right in Technic, and this one reads correctly from most angles. The wide rear arches, the low roofline and the big rear wing all come through.
The build starts with the hub in your hands. The rear wheel hubs go straight onto the two motor outputs at the back, the steering goes onto motor C at the front, and then the instructions stop and have you pair the hub with the app and test steering and drive. Do it properly, because after that first bag you lose access to the hub.
Charge the battery before you start and have a USB-C cable to hand. The box tells you that you need a phone or tablet, but not that you need a cable.
The lights are worth slowing down for. Transparent light links plug into the LED sockets on the hub and run out to the headlights and tail lights, and the two long front ones sit in black ribbed sleeves through the cabin. You can see both of them in the member’s nose-on photo below. Check each one is pushed fully home in the hub before the nose goes on. Once it is running, press the brake in the app and the tail lights get brighter.
Good work on this one. Thanks for sending the photos in. If you’ve finished a kit from the library and want to share yours, drop me a message at hello@brickclub.uk or tag us on Facebook or Instagram. Always good to see how members get on with the kits.
This is exactly why I like putting member builds on the blog. The official images tell you what a kit is supposed to look like. Member photos show what it feels like once someone has actually sat down, opened the bags, and worked through it.
If you have just finished the Porsche GT4 e-Performance, send over a few photos. It does not need to be a full studio setup. A clean table, a finished build, and a few notes on what stood out are enough.
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