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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Lexus LFA back look |
PRICE -
$375000
