Dominic Toretto’s Dodge Charger Races into the Lego Technic Lineup

Fast & Furious Charger kit includes moving engine parts, suspension components and steering system.

Over the past few years, the Lego brand has added many famous automobiles to their brick-built lineup, including the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon. The small-scale Demon was part of a two-car set in the Lego Speed Champions series and Mopar fans were quick to buy those sets up. To this day, it is hard to find the Demon Speed Champions sets in many areas, but they are readily available online. While the Mopar community was excited to have the Lego Demon and the 1970 Charger that came with it, the Speed Champions kits create smaller cars with less detail.

Many Dodge lovers who are hardcore Lego enthusiasts wanted a more detailed Mopar muscle car, but they won’t have to wait much longer. The Lego Technic series will soon launch a 1970 Dodge Charger, but it isn’t just any Charger. This is a small-scale replica of the muscle car driven by Vin Diesel’s character Dominic Toretto in The Fast and the Furious, complete with a supercharger sticking up through the hood.

Lego Technic Dodge Charger

This new Lego Technic kit is item number 42111 and it is technically named “Dom’s Dodge Charger”. The kit is comprised of 1,077 bricks and when assembled, the car sits 16 inches long, 4 inches high and 7 inches wide, making it a 1/13 scale model of an actual 1970 Charger.

Like all Lego Technic kits, this Dodge muscle car has working suspension and steering systems, rolling wheels and the car opens up, including the hood, doors and trunk. It even has moving engine parts, simulating the action of the pistons in the block. Where it stands apart from a traditional Dodge Charger is in the supercharger sticking up through the hood and the twin nitrous oxide bottles in the trunk.

The kit also comes with a Lego figurine, but there are no pictures of that character, so we don’t know if it is designed to look like Dominic Torreto or not. Ultimately, for a hardcore Mopar fan who loves building Lego kits, it really doesn’t matter what the figurine looks like.

Finally, Dom’s Dodge Charger was most famous for its incredibly-impossible wheelstand while smoking the tires towards the end of The Fast and the Furious, so the Lego version comes with a stand that allows to you display the car with the front wheels in the air.

Pricing and Availability

The Lego Technic Dodge Charger is much larger and far more detailed than the car in the Speed Champions kit, so it should come as no surprise that it is quite a bit more expensive.

Dom’s supercharged beast is priced at $99.99 on the Lego website and shipping is free, for those who want to order it online. If you like to hunt for kits in stores, you may find it a few dollars cheaper at large retailers like Walmart.

Lego plans to begin shipping Dom’s Dodge Charger kits that are ordered on their website on April 27^th, 2020, so the first units should arrive in stores around that time.

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Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

Rall can be contacted at QuickMirada@Yahoo.com

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