Yesterday’s news that the Lexus LF-A will boast GT-R besting stats is cool as hell, but the video after the jump popped up in the late afternoon to temper the excitement. In it, you see one of the competition-spec LF-As in the last two hours of the 24 Hours of Nurburgring come to a stop [...]
Lexus just let it slip its new bad ass LF-A will boast a blistering 550 horsepower and break the 200 mph top speed barrier. Say g’damn. To honor this amount of awesome, I give you some classic Japanese tin, tearing it up the way it should. Fiendish.
Ah, the on-again/off-again LF-A is back to enter this year’s 24 Hours of Nurburgring, and Toyota’s unleashed a few photos of the racer to celebrate. Is the car headed to production? Who the hell knows. Last year, the LF-A (or is that LFA?) managed to come in at 121/223, so we’re guessing the race team [...]
Again. That’s right, the on again off again Lexus LF-A prototype will compete in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring again this year. According to Lexus, the car is strikingly close to the production version with only minimal changes made to make it fit for competition. That is, if the car ever sees production. Under the [...]
The interweb is at it again, Fiends. According to rumors bouncing from site to site Toyota plans to show off some goodies at the Tokyo Auto Show. The news comes after The General, Chrysler, Ford, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and VW all said they have no interest in making the trip to show their wares. So [...]
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The story goes that even though everyone is now poor, Japanese car makers are going to rolling out some pretty hot (and pricey) metal in the upcoming years. Let’s just get to the most ridiculous part first — a Nissan GT-R SUV. Why? To compete with the Porsche Cayenne, of course. At least so says [...]
Is it dead? Does it live? Seems like it depends on the day and today it looks like the Lexus LF-A is on schedule for a 2009 launch. The news comes courtesy of an Autoexpress article that makes mention of a handful of racing spec LF-A’s ready to do their worst by mid 2009. That [...]
You may not know this, but we’re big fans of the IS-F around these parts. Lexus’s first F offering is a snarling, knuckle-dragging alternative to the M3, RS4 or C63 AMG. Cause really, when you get into that price/performance range, you’re not making a bad choice. Plus, all you need do is hear the IS-F’s [...]
Toyota pulled an LF-A prototype out of the bowels of R&D for some time on track at Fuji Speedway recently. Autoweek was able to get their paws on a couple of grainy shots of the supercar on the tarmac, and it looks pretty damn menacing. Supposedly the company plans to unveil the production version of [...]
We knew it was too good to be true. Dark word on the interweb today is that Lexus is indefinitely postponing the saliva-inducing LF-A and the should be sorta sexy GS-F. But, with auto sales hovering somewhere around gutter level, Toyota’s primo line has decided to table these souped up rides. The IS convertible, too. [...]
