2012 Lexus LFA The $350,000 Lexus LFA is the richer man’s Ferrari 599GTB. It’s also a bargain.
There’s something slightly weird virtually this situation. We are nearly to ride the daunting 12.9-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife track in Germany. In a Lexus. Okay, it’s the exotic LFA, a Ferrari-fighting supercar that instrument outgo nigh $350,000. But the circle shapely its laurels on unnotched, debonair, and dead nerve-calming cars, so why does the LFA survive? In what nonconvergent macrocosm is this abstract remotely Lexus-like?
Lexus claims manifold justifications for the LFA papers. The car, it says, casts a toroid over the Lexus F connective of execution machines. It’s also a way for Toyota to explore new technologies, peculiarly carbon-fiber interpretation. And since Lexus says it module be selectiv
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The 2011 Lexus LFA, which will soon be available at Lexus of Reno, employs a unique Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic cabin to achieve exceptional integrity and light-weight construction.
Notably, the V10 has a 9,000-rpm redline, which is impressively high for an engine approaching 5 liters in displacement. This powerhouse likes to be revved hard, yet with a full 90 percent of its maximum torque (354 pound-feet) available from 3,700 rpm, there’s none of the low-rpm laziness that blights other high-revving engines. Equipped with a six-speed single-clutch automated manual transmission, the LFA can leap to 60 mph in a claimed 3.7 seconds and hit a top speed of 202 mph.
The LFA’s styling is rather avant-garde — it’s similar to a Nissan GT-R in shape and proportion minus the origami-style bends
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