Well, fiends, it’s finally here. Lexus yanked the sheets off of its much spy-shot LFA for the first time in Tokyo and it’s better than we could have imagined. First, there’s a 4.8-liter V10 with 552 horsepower and 354 lb-ft of torque that revs to a cloud-licking 9,000 rpm. Just sit for a second and [...]
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 [...]
I. Ultra-luxury brand Maybach will announce its latest creation, the Maybach Zeppelin, at the Geneva Motor Show. The new model gets two tone brown-and-Taiga Black paint, chrome 20s, and streamlined mirrors. The real story, however, is under the hood. The Zeppelin gets a 28 hp upgrade to make 640, while torques stay put at 738. [...]
For those of you who dodged the barrage of Superbowl 43 commercials, Audi showed off its “Chase” ad during the game, complete with Jason Statham rockin’ the wheel man gig through the decades. We’re always down for some sweet wheel-to-wheel action, even if it is for a short commercial. Our favorite part? The early ‘90’s [...]
16
Jan
2009
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 [...]
A brief moment of explanation: the annoyed-looking fellow in the sharkskin shoes is moi, and I am administering an ever-popular Internet meme — “the shocker” — to the just-for-decoration double-stacked tailpipes of the Lexus IS-F. At the close of the show’s first day, it’s difficult to not conclude that most of the sturm und drang [...]
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 [...]
