As you know the Lexus LF-A prototype was presented at the Nurburgring 24 hours race. And not for 24 hours, but just for a second the engineers opened the hood, but this was more than enough to take a picture of the engine. Here it is!
As previously speculated the engine will be a V10, but that’s pretty much we know about the car. Maybe we will find out more in October when the production version is supposed to be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show. Fingers crossed!
We don’t know when will be released, we don’t know how it will look like (you know what I mean!), but we can tell you that the future Lexus LF-A will be priced over $200,000.
Ben Mitchell, corporate product planning manager for Lexus, confirmed that the price of the carbon-fiber supercar "will begin with a two." And another Lexus source in Japan told Inside Line the price may be as high as $225,000.
The LF-A will be powered by an estimated 500 horsepower 5.0-liter V10 engine. It will be offered in both coupe and roadster forms, the LF-A will first launch as a coupe. Roadster versions will be priced even higher. Both body styles are approximately 2 inches shorter and an inch narrower than the 483-hp Ferrari F430, with a similarly sized wheelbase.
2008 Lexus LF-A Roadster Concept
2007 Lexus LF-A Sports Car
2005 Lexus LF-A Concept
Lexus announced that the LF-A racing version will make it official debut this month at the German Nurburgring 24 hour endurance race. but, until then, the car was caught testing at Nurburgring.
The range-topping Lexus is running in virtually undisguised form beneath its matte black paintwork. At the front are distinctive swept back headlamps, together with vents cut into the bonnet to aid cooling of the front-mounted motor.
The LF-A will be powered by a V10 engine that should produce around 500bhp. Performance will be scorching, with a top speed well in excess of 200mph.
Is true that the LF-A supercar will not make its debut until 2009, but the competition version wil make its debut this year in May’s Nurburgring 24 hour endurance race.
The car has been tweaked to give it an edge on the circuit. At the front is a deeper front bumper with larger holes to aid high-speed cooling.
The LF-A racing version features carbon fibre rear wing and large triple exhausts above a F1-style diffuser. All of this modifications should mean that the LF-A laps considerable quicker than the rumored 7 minutes 24 secs of the road-based prototype.
After the LF-A supercar disappeared for a while from Nürburgring after the Nissan Gt-R was launched, the spy photographers caught it testing again. Even if the car is on development for year, we won’t see the production version until the next two years.
The LF-A supercar was previews last year at the Detroit Auto Show when Lexus unveiled the LF-A Concept. The production version will be powered by a V10 engine that will deliver 500 hp and will hit a top speed of 200 mph.
Have you noticed that there are no news about the LF-A supercar ever since the Nissan Gt-R has been launched? No? Well it did! Once the production GT-R arrived, the Lexus LF-A prototypes disappeared from the Nurburgring.
Corvette engineers have been at the Nordschliefe in the 620-horse ZR1 running what appear to be comfortable 7min 40sec laps. But the LF-As, ’Ring-side spy shots of which arrived here almost on a weekly basis over the past few months, simple disappeared!
Originally revealed at the 2005 Detroit Show as a concept, the LF-A (a prototype caught at the ’Ring last year is pictured) features carbon-fiber intensive construction, and an F1-inspired naturally aspirated V-10 with at least 500hp. (A hybrid V-8 — the electric motors drove the front wheels — was tested at one point, but our intel suggests Toyota has gone back to the original V-10 idea.) Toyota has pledged the LF-A will be the company’s first genuine supercar.
Toyota’s problem is this: The GT-R has set the performance bar incredibly high for the next Japanese supercar. And Toyota being Toyota, delivering a supercar that’s second-best to a Nissan is unthinkable, especially if it’s going to carry the Lexus badge. The LF-A has to be faster than the GT-R, in a straight line, and around the legendary Nordschliefe. Otherwise it risks being perceived a failure.
The Lexus IS-F sports sedan (competitor for the BMW M3, Mercedes C63 AMG and Audi RS4) is not the only attempt from Lexus to enter the sports-car market. In the future, , the "F" will denote Lexus performance tuning. Other models destined for the treatment include the GS and, possibly, the full-size LS limo.
Lexus will also add a new model below the IS, intended as an entry-level sedan or hatch to compete against the BMW 1 Series or Audi A3.
The LF-A supercar will go into production — possibly in 2011 — although it might be built only in left-hand drive.
In 2009 Lexus will unveil the next-generation RX crossover SUV, following a taster concept at the 2007 Tokyo motor show. Also, starting next year a hybrid powertrain will soon be available on every model and Lexus plans to show a pure hybrid concept at next year’s Detroit show. This will be a kind of Lexus "Prius" although it’s not yet confirmed for production.
2007 Lexus LF-A Sports Car Picture Gallery
2008 Lexus LF-A Roadster Picture Gallery
At the Detroit Auto Show Lexus unveiled the LF-A Roadster Concept, even if everyone was waiting for the long-anticipated LF-A supercar. If put into production the LF-A Roadster will compete with the M6 convertible.
The production Lexus LF-A is set to arrive in 2010 priced at over $200,000. We remember speaking to the PR at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show and they said that if the roadster was received favorably in Detroit and other auto shows throughout this season, Toyota may consider it putting it into production. But this won’t happened until after the coupe version debut.
The LF-A Roadster is powered by a high-revving V10 engine that approaches 5.0 liters in displacement. The V10, capable of more than 500 horsepower and test-track speeds greater than 200 mph, is mounted in front of the passenger compartment but behind the front-axle centerline in what the LF-A’s engineers refer to as a "front-mid" configuration.
2008 Lexus LF-A Roadster Picture Gallery
The engineers and designers at Lexus continue to use their groundbreaking LF-A premium sports car concept as a medium for expressing their ideas about what a high-performance sporting vehicle not only can be, but should be. In this latest expression of the LF-A, they have removed the car’s top to create a high-performance roadster.
>> read 2008 Lexus LF-A Roadster Picture Gallery
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Lexus LF-A has smashed the
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Lexus LF-A has lapped the famous Nurburgring in 7 minutes and 24 seconds, beating the Porsche GT2 by one seco
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