Watch this crash test of a 2,700-piece LEGO car

Published May. 23, 2017 1:33 p.m. ET

Samuel Reiman

I confess I’ve never much been into LEGO. Instead, I played with a lot of K’NEX growing up.

One of my odd hobbies as a child was making K’NEX cars and smashing them into walls.

Well it seems some people at the German automobile club ADAC wanted to try the same thing with LEGO. Only, instead of just clipping about 30 pieces together like I did and just calling it a “car,” these guys put 2,700 building blocks together to create a LEGO Porsche 911 GT3 RS with functional steering, a dual clutch gearbox and a box motor with moving pistons worth 300 Euros.

Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? This sounds like the sort of thing that ought to be kept safe inside of a glass case.

Instead, however, ADAC decided to crash test it to show us how bad off we’d all be if our cars were made out of LEGO. Although, to its credit, the trunk definitely seemed to hold up well.