LEGO® Speed Champions · Ford · 2017

2016 Ford GT & 1966 Ford GT40

Q: Is LEGO® set 75881 still available?

LEGO® set 75881 is retired (launched 2017). Try the secondary market for sealed copies.

Q: How big is the LEGO® 2016 Ford GT & 1966 Ford GT40 when built?

Speed Champions cars are 8-stud wide; typical built length is 14–18 cm. Check LEGO.com or BrickLink for exact dimensions of set 75881.

Q: How many pieces does LEGO® set 75881 have?

373 pieces. No minifigure included.

Q: Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

6-stud width. The original LEGO® Speed Champions scale used from 2015 to 2019, before the line switched to 8-stud in 2020.

Q: What other LEGO® Ford Speed Champions sets are there?

Browse every LEGO® Ford Speed Champions set on the Ford hub page (/brands/ford/).

Two Ford GTs 50 years apart — the 1966 Le Mans-winning GT40 and its 2016 reborn Le Mans-winning successor.

Set #75881 2017 373 pieces 6-stud Retired

In 1966, Ford broke Ferrari at Le Mans with the GT40 Mk II — the famous 1-2-3 finish with Bruce McLaren, Chris Amon, Ken Miles and others. Fifty years later, Ford returned to the Circuit de la Sarthe with a new mid-engined GT and won the GTE-Pro class with Joey Hand, Dirk Müller and Sébastien Bourdais. This Speed Champions set pairs them — a deliberate “50-years-on” statement.

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Ford's GT name spans 50 years and two completely different eras of Le Mans glory. The 1966 GT40 won at the Circuit de la Sarthe four times in a row — a humbling-of-Ferrari that became motorsport folklore. The 2016 GT was Ford's modern follow-up: a carbon-fibre, twin-turbo V6 endurance racer that took GTE Pro class victory at Le Mans on the GT40's 50th anniversary. Two GTs, two finish lines half a century apart — and the same blue-and-white #2 Gulf-style livery that Ford reaches for when it wants to win at the most famous endurance race on earth.

GTE LE MANS WINNER

2016 Ford GT

50-year anniversary Le Mans car

The 2016 Ford GT race car was developed by Multimatic on the same platform as the road GT, with a 3.5-litre EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 (regulated to ~600 hp under GTE rules). Ford targeted the 50th anniversary of the GT40’s 1966 Le Mans win.

Ford finished 1st, 3rd and 4th in GTE-Pro at Le Mans 2016, with the #68 of Joey Hand, Dirk Müller and Sébastien Bourdais taking the class win. The programme ran through 2019; the car also competed in the WEC and IMSA championships.

Engine: 3.5L twin-turbo V6 EcoBoost (regulated, ~600 hp)
Class: FIA GTE-Pro / IMSA GTLM
Notable result: Le Mans GTE-Pro winner 2016
Builder: Multimatic Motorsport

LE MANS HISTORY

1966 Ford GT40

The car that broke Ferrari at Le Mans

Henry Ford II commissioned the GT40 program after Enzo Ferrari aborted a sale of Ferrari to Ford in 1963. The Mk II evolution — a 7.0-litre 427 cubic-inch V8, four-speed transaxle, riveted aluminium body — was Ford’s 1966 Le Mans answer.

The 1966 Le Mans 24 finished with Ford taking 1st, 2nd and 3rd — Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon won; the Ken Miles/Denny Hulme car was second after a controversial team-orders staged finish. It was Ford’s first Le Mans win and broke Ferrari’s six-year overall winning streak.

Engine: 427 cu-in (7.0L) Ford FE V8, ~485 hp
Body: Aluminium-bodied prototype
Le Mans: 1st, 2nd, 3rd in 1966
Drivers (winning car): Bruce McLaren / Chris Amon

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Park GT40 in front, 2016 GT behind — the chronological-and-architectural progression reads instantly.
Pair with 76905 (Ford GT Heritage Edition + Bronco R) for an extended Ford racing shelf.

People

The 50-year arc from the 1966 GT40 to the 2016 GT runs through some of the most-mythologised names in American racing.

Ken Miles

1966 Le Mans, GT40 driver

Miles was the British-American driver who, paired with Denny Hulme, finished second at Le Mans 1966 — controversially, after the team radio'd him to slow for a photo finish that Ford management decided to award to the McLaren-Amon car instead. He died testing the GT40's successor weeks later.

Joey Hand

2016 Le Mans GTE-Pro winner

Hand shared the 2016 Le Mans GTE-Pro-winning #68 Ford GT with Dirk Müller and Sébastien Bourdais — a 50-year-anniversary win that Ford built the entire 2016 GT programme around. The car in this set wears that race's livery.

Carroll Shelby

GT40 programme manager (1966)

Shelby was the Texan racer-turned-team-owner Ford brought in to fix the GT40 programme after the 1965 Le Mans defeat. His Shelby American operation in California prepared the cars that took the 1-2-3 in 1966 — the heritage moment that 2016 Ford executives were still trading on when they signed off on the modern GT.

The build

The 1966 GT40

The GT40's low front and rounded headlight surrounds translate well to the 6-stud chassis — its 1960s GT-class shape is more sympathetic to LEGO® scale than most prototypes are. The blue-and-orange #2 Gulf-style livery (here in Ford's Le Mans heritage red-white) is delivered through a mix of printed elements and stickers.

The exposed wheels and the door-cutting roofline are accurate 6-stud renderings of the original — the GT40's name comes from its 40-inch ride height, which the build deliberately captures with a low chassis stance.

The 2016 GT

The 2016 GT is more challenging at scale. Its flying-buttress fastback and the gap between cabin and rear fender (an aerodynamic feature on the real car, where airflow is channelled through the gap) are hard to translate; the build uses a small slope element to suggest the negative space rather than render it literally.

The #68 Ford Performance black-red-white livery is mostly stickers, with the central white stripe being a printed tile across the bonnet and roof.

Why this pairing matters

Both cars won at Le Mans, both for Ford, both fifty years apart — and the 2016 win was Ford's first overall Le Mans return since the GT40 era. The pairing is a manufacturing fact: Ford's 2016 marketing strategy was explicit about the heritage tie-back.

Display pairing: 76905 (Ford GT Heritage Edition + Bronco R, 2021) is the natural shelf neighbour, as it carries the same Ford Le Mans tribute lineage.

FAQ

Is LEGO® set 75881 still available?

LEGO® set 75881 is retired. It launched in 2017 and is no longer in production. Try Bricklink, eBay or Brickset member sales for sealed and used copies.

How big is the LEGO® 2016 Ford GT & 1966 Ford GT40 when built?

Speed Champions cars are 8-stud wide and built models typically measure around 14–18 cm long. For exact built dimensions of set 75881, check the LEGO.com product page or BrickLink catalog entry.

How many pieces does LEGO® set 75881 have?

LEGO® set 75881 contains 373 pieces. This set does not include a minifigure.

Is this a 6-stud or 8-stud LEGO® Speed Champions set?

This is a 6-stud-wide Speed Champions car. LEGO® used the 6-stud width from the line's launch in 2015 through 2019. The standard switched to 8-stud width in 2020, so 6-stud cars are now collector-favourite snapshots of the original line.

What other LEGO® Ford Speed Champions sets are there?

You can browse every LEGO® Ford Speed Champions set on the Ford hub page, which links to each set's wiki entry, year of release and current status.