Lexus LFA

[Sabre]

I know we had a post about the carbon fiber aspects of this car, but I figured I'd post up about the rest of it
Official Site
Top Gear part 1
Top Gear part 2

Stats:
4.8L V10 (552HP@8700, 354lbs/ft@6800)
Power-to-weight 5.9 lb/hp
9000RPM redline

0-60mph 3.6 seconds
0-100mph 7.8 seconds
1,480 kg (3,263 lb)
49.8:50.2 (front:rear) Weight distribution
1.00 G Lateral acceleration
350k

[abhi]

Here's the HD version from youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJJZe_vXfHE

[sirwilliam]

It's nice but rather have a GTR for much less.

[Sabre]

Torque

If you were hoping to win the lottery, so that you could buy a new Lexus LFA supercar, your time is up. Lexus produced the last LFA last week, a white LFA Nürburgring Package, which was the last of the 500 cars that were planned. Production of the LFA started exactly two years ago, on December 15, 2010, and included a team of around 170 hand-picked takumi workers involved in parts manufacturing, vehicle assembly and painting. The high performance LFA was produced at the rate of just one unit per day.

Lexus says that the learning and passion gained from engineering and producing a world-class supercar can already be seen in the products recently launched by Lexus - across the whole range, not just those carrying the F Sport badge. "I've lived and breathed supercars for the past decade. - remembers Haruhiko Tanahashi, the LFA's Chief Engineer. - Specifically one supercar. The LFA. Very few people have the opportunity we had: to create a world-class supercar from a blank sheet of paper."

And just like that, poof... it's gone. I wonder if they will produce another supercar.

[complacent]

i hope so. i could watch those fiber-weaving machines all day long.

[PGT]

as an engineering masterpiece, it was brilliant. Taking an objective view with price considered, it was stillborn.

[GaToR]

as an engineering masterpiece, it was brilliant. Taking an objective view with price considered, it was stillborn.

Doubt it. The exotics all depreciate like stones... except for those that a) are not easy to come by, and b) aren't dry-rotted rusted hulks after a short span

Buy a Ferrari, get 5 engine replacements and 3 tranny replacements in 20,000 miles, watch it depreciate to 20% of its original price in 5 years.

http://www.topgear.com.ph/features/feat ... -a-ferrari

Buy a Ford GT for $150K, sell it 6 years later for $200K.

The truly rare cars, you only pay taxes and maintenance on and fill 'em with gas. If you were among the lucky first to pay full price for them, there's someone else waiting to snatch it from you when you're tired of it.

I doubt this car will depreciate much, thus the 'price' ends up being less relevant to the TCO, which I'm gonna bet will be less than any of its contemporaries.

[PGT]

Oh, I didn't mean resale value. I meant objective performance data for the $$$ spent. The LF-A isn't that impressive when you can buy a Viper or GT-R for $100K or an Aventador for a bit more.

[GaToR]

Oh, I didn't mean resale value. I meant objective performance data for the $$$ spent. The LF-A isn't that impressive when you can buy a Viper or GT-R for $100K or an Aventador for a bit more.

I simply don't find the whole range to be 'stillborn', nor do I find any argument for a car that goes slightly faster than LFA right before eating its own transmission.

An Aventador is all about passion, an Italian word meaning 'fast, aggressive, and with absolutely no regard to quality.'

http://m.motortrend.com/features/perfor ... tador.html

The client Aventadors weigh in at 300lbs more than the test cars. At least Lexus actually sells the LFA with a CF tub. Lamborghini gives the bait-and-switch.


I'm not going to argue that there are faster cars than an LFA, but if the LFA is stillborn in this price range, that's just saying the whole exotic segment is stillborn.


My point is that not only was the LFA a good engineering exercise for Toyota, its also a safer bet to get into one from a buyers perspective, if one were to care about the quality of the build.


If magazine lap-time is all that matters than Viper ACR is the only car over $100K that should exist.

If modded time attack is all that matters than GT-R is only car that should exist.


These are corollaries that remain true no matter which exotic one likes.

[Mr Kleen]

And being fugly doesn't help.

[PGT]

Lamborghini gives the bait-and-switch.

As do the good folks from Maranello. Just ask Chris Harris.

[zaxrex]

Torque

If you were hoping to win the lottery, so that you could buy a new Lexus LFA supercar, your time is up. Lexus produced the last LFA last week, a white LFA Nürburgring Package.

"The last car leaving the assembly line at the spaceship called LFA Works is a pure white Nürburgring Edition model with a little twist: the car's base coat is covered with a layer that shines in blue and white if you give it some fluorescent light, while there is a third enamel coat covered by a clear coat on top of that"

[complacent]

lol, there are probably three or four people in the world that can repair that paint.