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Billund is Denmark"s second biggest airport, eclipsed only by the one that serves the capital, Copenhagen. This is entirely down to the presence of a certain toy manufacturer, Lego. This makes Billund the Maranello of the toy world, a place of pilgrimage for the faithful, and ensures that Lego, like Ferrari, is the engine of the town"s economy a quadturbo, 16-cylinder, 16-litre engine at that.But although there are Lego versions of various Ferraris, it"s actually a Porsche that"s brought us to this pleasantly unprepossessing corner of Scandinavia today. Last month, the company"s Technic line unveiled a magnificent and magnificently complicated iteration of the 911 GT3 RS, complete with functioning dual-shift gearbox, steering and engine. Almost as desirable and in many ways as ingeniously engineered as the real thing, this merited much closer investigation.Photography: Tom BarnesThis feature was originally published in issue 285 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 11 Aug 2016
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Billund is Denmark"s second biggest airport, eclipsed only by the one that serves the capital, Copenhagen. This is entirely down to the presence of a certain toy manufacturer, Lego. This makes Billund the Maranello of the toy world, a place of pilgrimage for the faithful, and ensures that Lego, like Ferrari, is the engine of the town"s economy a quadturbo, 16-cylinder, 16-litre engine at that.But although there are Lego versions of various Ferraris, it"s actually a Porsche that"s brought us to this pleasantly unprepossessing corner of Scandinavia today. Last month, the company"s Technic line unveiled a magnificent and magnificently complicated iteration of the 911 GT3 RS, complete with functioning dual-shift gearbox, steering and engine. Almost as desirable and in many ways as ingeniously engineered as the real thing, this merited much closer investigation.Photography: Tom BarnesThis feature was originally published in issue 285 of Top Gear magazine.
Date written: 11 Aug 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 4642
