Honda e Lego MOC 6-wide front half profile

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Honda e Lego MOC 6-wide front half profile
Honda e Lego MOC 6-wide front half profile

This is the newest real-world car I have MOCced so far, the Honda e of 2020. Tragically, I didn’t make it in time to have a MOC of a car still in production because manufacturing of the e ended in January 2024.* I do love the original’s design, the almost identical front- and rear lights on the rounded black horizontal bar, the black and white contrasts, the retro references to 1970s and 1980s compacts, as well as the Honda‘s courage to make a quite friendly looking car in a world of seeming competition on who appears most threatening on the road.
In my bricked version of the Honda e a lot of brackets, clips, SNOT bricks, slopes and hinges have been used. Some of the shaping was made with tiles slid and twisted into place in slight (illegal) angles. The base is 6 studs wide and the roof is 5 studs wide. The windscreen was made from two book covers which add up to almost 5 studs width. The result is a half-brick wide step between the base and the cockpit, not as smooth and curvy as in the original, of course, but to me still more elegant than a full stud’s width or a 6 wide roof with a boxy appearance. For the charging-lid on the hood I chose a stickered slope from an official TLG set, a concession to appearance despite my ideal of not using stickers and of brick building all design features. I am also not too happy with the roof’s sloping in front, however a fully horizontal version of it came out to high and too boxy. I used the 1x5 rotor plates with rounded ends for the car’s signature black bars in front and back. They are attached with a technic axle in front and with a 1x1 bracket in the back. Their round ends do not come out as round as I had wished for, however, due to the white tiles snugging them in. So I added another picture with the front "grill" pulled out a little more, which makes it look rounder.
So there are lots of compromises and concessions here, but -- let’s face it -- you have to make them in the real-world, too, when you drive this beautiful and stylish car with lots of cool and minimalistic design features and geeky gadgets … but with a rather limited mileage range.

*Well, as I’m writing this, I realize that an updated version of the UAZ-452, aka Bukhanka, is still being manufactured an sold as 2206. But does that count?

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