Until now you have seen a multitude of spy shots with the Lexus LF-A’s exterior in frame. Just like the spy photographer who had the good sense to peak under the hood, this automotive paparazzo decided to focus on the interior. From what we can tell, the carbon clad cabin looks to be top notch. The photojournalist has also captured the LF-A’s road going rolling stock, a treat for any wheel enthusiast.
Limited to only 500 units, the Lexus LF-A will be powered by a 4.8 Liter V10 that delivers a screaming 550 HP shifted via a 6 speed semi-automatic transmission that is geared so that Toyota’s future super car can hit a top speed of over 218 MPH. After its official debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in October, the car will go on sale next summer. But for now, if you are dying to see one of these beauties for yourself, head on over to Goodwood next month where the Japanese automaker will have not only the LF-A on display, but also a few of their race proven winners.
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The Japanese automaker Toyota will bring a handful of their remarkable racing cars to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, July 3-5. The three day event is Europe’s answer to Monterey Historic Races that take place every year at Laguna Seca. The event allows racing enthusiasts to get an up close look at everything from classic competition cars to the racecars of tomorrow and allows these machines the opportunity to do what it is that they do best when they race against the clock and the hill.
The sombrero wearing import carmaker will be showing off a Lexus LF-A super car and a TF108, last year’s unrestricted F1 car complete with the German Timo Glock behind the controls. Making almost as much power as the F1 machine, Toyota will also bring a four wheel drive Celica GT4-X developed by English based tuners Fensport. The Celica makes 700 HP and can make consistent 10 second quarter mile passes all day long.
Rally enthusiasts will be happy to know that their will be a pair of classic Group B Celicas as well as the car that won them the Manufacturer’s Championship in 1999, a WRC Corolla. Alain Prost’s championship ice racing Toyota Auris will also be on hand, the car is built to look like the compact city car, except the racecar is built from carbon fiber and features a tuned 3.0 Liter V6. There will also be a couple of Can-Am and Le Mans racers on hand as well.
However, it will be Gazoo Racing’s V10-powered Lexus LF-A endurance racer, coming straight from competing in the Nurburgring 24, along with an IS-F that competed in the same race twice around the clock, that will be one of the main attractions on the hill climb course, making an appearance at the Earl of March’s annual gathering.
We have all heard about the future super car from Lexus, the LF-A; but what you may not know is that Gazoo Racing is campaigning a pair of prototypes in endurance races all across Europe. This not only serves to give the brand racing credibility before it is even on the market, and also allows the automaker to conduct performance and reliability testing in some of the most demanding environments in the world.
Despite Gazoo’s setback at the Nurburgring24, the team is continuing to develop the car for the track and Lexus is finishing off a very limited number of production versions for the street. This video offers a rather unrestricted view of the LF-A as the car is put through its paces by the English racing team.
Although the production version of the Lexus LF-A will make its official debut this October at the Tokyo Motor Show, there is a way that you can get behind the wheel of Lexus’s first ever super car today. All you need is a video game console and a copy of Need for Speed SHIFT. Judging from these photographs, it looks like the Lexus will be a playable vehicle in the upcoming racing simulator from EA Sports.
Need for Speed SHIFT is the latest offering from the NFS family of video games, in an attempt to change things up from the previous versions, SHIFT, will be a dedicated racing simulator. The game will feature 18 race tracks in all, with some patterned after actual circuits like the Nurburgring, Silverstone, Laguna Seca and Spa Francorchamps. It would be interesting to see if the LF-A could go around the ‘Ring for 24 hours in the video game without catching on fire.
Lexus’s latest super car, the LF-A, has just failed its latest endurance session at the Nurburgring 24. Gazoo Racing has been campaigning the V10 powered LF-A in a number of endurance races in an attempt to bring the lessons learned from the race track onto the streets when the 500 HP Lexus finally does arrive in showrooms around the world in 2010, even if they are in limited numbers.
Apparently only 1 hour and 33 minutes before the end of the day long endurance race, one of the two LF-As competing suffered a catastrophic failure. Nearing the end of the competition, the number 15 car had to pull off to the side of the track as flames were coming out from the rear of the car. Although not much has been disclosed about the failure, this does not look good for Lexus’s future sales figures.
A short while ago, Top Speed announced that the production version of the Lexus LF-A super car will make its official debut this October at the Tokyo Auto Salon, and that potential Lexus super car owners would be able to start placing orders shortly thereafter. Fortunately for collectors, the Japanese automaker is limiting the production of their V10 powered super car to just 500 units, with 120 of them headed for their domestic market.
When the LF-A does hit showrooms, don’t expect to call it an LF-A, instead the Japanese luxury car maker is going to adopt the GT moniker "in order to express the car’s character." The GT name will be combined with some iteration of the car’s 550 HP maximum output. So it will most likely be called the Lexus GT550, it would be nice for the Toyota subsidiary to bring back the Supra name, but maybe that will happen later on. So just remember, when you go to the dealership to place your order, don’t ask for an LF-A.
The first deliveries of Lexus’s super car will be made next summer.
I apologize because we here at Top Speed could only bring you blacked out concepts or cartoon designs of the Future Luxus LF-A super car. Please let Top Speed officially present to you, the Gazoo Racing LF-A Nürburgring 24 competitor.
Even though it is a racecar and because of this is equipped with safety equipment like a roll cage, fuel tank and everything else in the rulebook. Things you most likely won’t find on the production version include the GT wing and other aerodynamic features. However one thing that might carry over is the large LCD gauge cluster.
Although this is not quite the street version, it is nice to finally have someone pop the hood to willingly expose the 500 HP V10.
The future Lexus LF-A supercar has been spotted again testing at the Nurburgring in Germany, this time on video. So no more distracting white striped camouflage, no more close ups of the rear spoiler, just the sonorous growl of the V10 and tires screaming for mercy. So take in the sights and sounds of super cars and the rolling hills of the Green Hell. The Lexus LF-A will make its official debut this October at the Tokyo Motor Show.
Rumors have been flying around that the Lexus LF-A will be unveiled at this year’s Tokyo Auto Salon, and this spy shot might just prove that the Japanese automaker is serious about bringing a super car to the table by 2011. The Lexus LF-A has been spotted again testing at the famed Nurburgring test track in Germany.
Due to the fact that Honda has canceled their NSX efforts, the future 500 HP Lexus will only have one other domestic super car to compete with, the Nissan GT-R. Their battle should rival that of Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla.
The model running around the ‘Ring in black camouflage should be much closer to a production version than the LF-A Concept that was unveiled at the Detroit show in 2005 and the updated version of the LF-A sports car we saw in 2007. If all goes well expect that the open-air LF-A Roadster will be in showrooms as early as 2012.
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Lexus has cried wolf so many times about the LF-A that despite official word, we are still skeptical that there will be a production version shown at the Tokyo Auto Salon this October. But maybe Lexus has a good reason to make the LF-A the ultimate tease...Maybe Lexus is just trying to get some serious Nürburgring credentials before the car is released to the public. That would explain why its taken almost five years to go from concept to production version, right?
No matter the lame excuses, the LF-A will attend the 24-Hour Race on the Nürburgring this May (it ran this race last year and was just there in April). As always, the LF-A will be competing in the SP8 (engine ‘close-to-production’) class — this means at least race officials believe Toyota/Lexus’ story about getting the LF-A into production.
Most of the news we’ve heard up until now gave the LF-A’s powerplant as a 5.0-liter V10 making abound 500 hp. The only thing that has seemed to have changed is the engine now officially displaces 4.8-liters.
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