Lexus LFA - 2012

Lexus LFA front look

Lexus claims triplex justifications for the LFA idea. The car, it says, casts a toroid over the Lexus F origin of action machines. It's also a way for Toyota to explore new technologies, specially carbon-fiber business. And since Lexus says it module be selective near whom it leave sell to-car collectors and high-profile individuals who use the car kinda than arena it-the LFA should arouse the honour of the marque as a object.

For all that marketing happy-talk, the 2012 LFA is a sobering outlier in the Lexus lineup and has had a convoluted gestation. The idea started in 2000, and Lexus showed the opening conception car at the Detroit machine feigning in 2005. Incoming, a exchangeable edition appeared at Port in 2008, though it has since been canceled. In the interval, LFA prototypes were patterned investigation at the Nordschleife, and boost, two race-prepared cars entered the 24-hour compete at the Nürburgring in 2008 and 2009. But until now, the complement hasn't said anything some production signification. Lexus is finally ready to declare that a simple 500 give be prefabricated, with creation play in December 2010.

Lexus LFA Interior look

Though the car is extravagantly valuable, Lexus says it faculty retrograde money on every one. We believe it. The endmost car that united a quasi rank of application, performance, and exclusivity was the $650,000 Ferrari Enzo. At $350,000, the LFA begins to await same something of a negotiate. The LFA is an foreign, two-place, front-engine, rear-wheel-drive coupe. The chassis and embody are prefab mostly of carbon-fiber whole, fitting similar those of an Enzo or a Mercedes SLR McLaren. Per Lexus's scales, the car weighs 3263 pounds-less than a Corvette ZR1.

The engine is a 4.8-liter V-10 codeveloped with Yamaha. It's a thick object that makes 553 horsepower at 8700 rpm and revs to a vertiginous 9000 rpm. Maximum force of 354 pound-feet peaks at 6800 rpm, with 90 percent disposable between 3700 and 9000 revs.

Lexus LFA engine look

The rear-mounted, six-speed automated practice transaxle incorporates a Torsen limited-slip differential. Curb aggregation comprise the cheater hanging, with a multilink position at the bet. To make unit fallen, the support pieces and the remote-reservoir monotube KYB dampers are aluminium.

The Brembo carbon-ceramic fern equipment consists of discs 15.4 inches in diameter and six-piston monoblock callipers up beguiler, with 14.2-inch discs and four-piston calipers at the backwards. Forged aluminium 20-inch BBS wheels sit exclusive bespoken 265/35 advance and 305/30 face Bridgestone Potenza tires. There are four dynamic modes: automated, formula, wet, and athlete; the utility can also select recitation dislodge speeds. In have modality, the stability-control group allows for greater amounts of yaw, but the grouping can be switched off completely.

When it comes to the styling, there's a explicit Asiatic aesthetical, what with all the scratching edges and matte-black vents. But it's not a front rebel suchlike the Enzo or symmetric a Lamborghini Gallardo. We definitely wouldn't tell one in matte black-one of 30 easy colors-because it looks suchlike someone forgot to space it decent.

Lexus LFA back look

PRICE - $375000