Jag har följt utvecklingen i den mån jag kunnat, sedan 2007 och jag är mycket förtjust i LF-A. Bilen är inte snyggast i världen och Lexus har ingen "själ", "racing-historia" osv, men vad spelar det för roll om den slår motståndet både prestandamässigt och i pålitlighet?
500 stycken ska säljas och jag hoppas verkligen att någon kommer till Sverige.
Än så länge verkar bilen har fått god kritik:
Edmunds:
This is a staggering engine. It likes to be revved hard, but with 90 percent of the torque output available from 3,700 rpm there’s none of the low-rpm languor that blights other high-revving motors. Lexus claims the LFA with its six-speed, single-clutch automated manual transmission gets to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds and will reach a top speed of 202 mph. Third gear runs to 104 mph and is a fabulous weapon for road use.
Many manufacturers, Ferrari included, have claimed to have tuned their engines to mimic the howl of an F1 motor. Lexus makes a similar claim here, but for once the result sounds justified. With an ever-urgent howl, it succeeds in sounding at once both aggressive and cultured.
The gearbox feels well suited to the engine’s character, and downshifts are a sonic delight. It’s also interesting to note that the force required to achieve a downshift with the shift paddle is marginally more than that required to upshift — a haptic detail insisted upon by Tanahashi-san.
Auto Week:
“In our religious philosophy we say, ‘As long as you are in the hand of the Buddha you are safe,’ ” is how chief engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi described putting the weight out at the ends of the car for better inherent stability. “You can have the best pleasure, but you are safe.”
The biggest thing you learn about a car on the Nordschliefe is its transitional handling characteristics—how it feels shifting its weight from one side to the other. In several instances we determined that, with a lesser car, we would have been flying backwards over the skinny guardrail and into the trees.
The stability that Tanahashi described was in evidence at every one of these flingingly fast turns. Only a couple of times did we feel that it was the electronic stability control that saved us from infamy; in the vast majority of the corners; it was that hand-of-the-Buddha thing that kept us out of the weeds. And our own skill, a little.
Car and Driver
Lexus claims multiple justifications for the LFA program. The car, it says, casts a halo over the Lexus F line of performance machines. It’s also a way for Toyota to explore new technologies, particularly carbon-fiber construction. And since Lexus says it will be selective about whom it will sell to—car collectors and high-profile individuals who use the car rather than park it—the LFA should raise the cachet of the brand as a whole.
Although the car is extravagantly expensive, Lexus says it will lose money on every one. We believe it. The last car that incorporated a similar level of technology, performance, and exclusivity was the $650,000 Ferrari Enzo. At $350,000, the LFA begins to look like something of a bargain.
We drove the car on a mixture of autobahn and dual-track roads, as well as at the Nürburging. Everywhere, all day long, it’s an absolute missile.
Thomas Bangma:
The best car that I’ve ever driven in my life as a car journalist. It is an absolute gem, it is amazing…and I think it’s a real shame that they’re only going to build only 500 pieces of it, of this masterpiece.
And I honestly think that every car nut…that wants the best cars ever made in his garage, that this one, this car should be in it…next to Pagani Zondas, McLaren F1s, what have you, Porsche GT3 RS, Carrera GT, this one should be sitting next to these cars in the garage of a guy that really understands his cars. Period.
Jag har följt utvecklingen i den mån jag kunnat, sedan 2007 och jag är mycket förtjust i LF-A. Bilen är inte snyggast i världen och Lexus har ingen "själ", "racing-historia" osv, men vad spelar det för roll om den slår motståndet både prestandamässigt och i pålitlighet?
500 stycken ska säljas och jag hoppas verkligen att någon kommer till Sverige.
560 hästar ur den 4,8 liter stora V10-motorn utan turbo med varvstopp vid 9.000 rpm. motorn 116,5 hk per liter motorvolym. acceleration 0 - 100 km/h på 3,7 sekunder och en toppfart på 325 km/h väger in på "bara" 1.480 kilo längd 4,5m den är ca: 250 kg lättare än skyline GT-R Hoppas att den kommer att ge corvette zr1 en tuff match.
Riktigt grym bil men verkligen inte värd pengarna då du lika gärna kan köpa t.e.x en Mercedes-Benz SL 65 Black Series AMG Då du får en sexliters dubbelturbo V12-motor på 612 hästkrafter
Riktigt grym bil men verkligen inte värd pengarna då du lika gärna kan köpa t.e.x en Mercedes-Benz SL 65 Black Series AMG Då du får en sexliters dubbelturbo V12-motor på 612 hästkrafter
Har du inte sett Top Gear avsnittet där denna testas? Helt värdelös bil dem har skapat där.
Antingen vanliga SL65 eller SLR som gäller.
Jag skulle inte precis kalla den bilen för värdelös men jag skulle hellre lägga pengarna på den bilen än på en Lexus aa slr är inte dum den heller.
jag tror att sl65 black series amg skulle ej ha så mkt att komma med mot lexusen raka,kurva kanske mercan har högre topfart.. sem de bara 500ex kommer då att bygga
This is a staggering engine. It likes to be revved hard, but with 90 percent of the torque output available from 3,700 rpm there’s none of the low-rpm languor that blights other high-revving motors. Lexus claims the LFA with its six-speed, single-clutch automated manual transmission gets to 60 mph in 3.7 seconds and will reach a top speed of 202 mph. Third gear runs to 104 mph and is a fabulous weapon for road use.
Many manufacturers, Ferrari included, have claimed to have tuned their engines to mimic the howl of an F1 motor. Lexus makes a similar claim here, but for once the result sounds justified. With an ever-urgent howl, it succeeds in sounding at once both aggressive and cultured.
The gearbox feels well suited to the engine’s character, and downshifts are a sonic delight. It’s also interesting to note that the force required to achieve a downshift with the shift paddle is marginally more than that required to upshift — a haptic detail insisted upon by Tanahashi-san.
Auto Week:
“In our religious philosophy we say, ‘As long as you are in the hand of the Buddha you are safe,’ ” is how chief engineer Haruhiko Tanahashi described putting the weight out at the ends of the car for better inherent stability. “You can have the best pleasure, but you are safe.”
The biggest thing you learn about a car on the Nordschliefe is its transitional handling characteristics—how it feels shifting its weight from one side to the other. In several instances we determined that, with a lesser car, we would have been flying backwards over the skinny guardrail and into the trees.
The stability that Tanahashi described was in evidence at every one of these flingingly fast turns. Only a couple of times did we feel that it was the electronic stability control that saved us from infamy; in the vast majority of the corners; it was that hand-of-the-Buddha thing that kept us out of the weeds. And our own skill, a little.
Car and Driver
Lexus claims multiple justifications for the LFA program. The car, it says, casts a halo over the Lexus F line of performance machines. It’s also a way for Toyota to explore new technologies, particularly carbon-fiber construction. And since Lexus says it will be selective about whom it will sell to—car collectors and high-profile individuals who use the car rather than park it—the LFA should raise the cachet of the brand as a whole.
Although the car is extravagantly expensive, Lexus says it will lose money on every one. We believe it. The last car that incorporated a similar level of technology, performance, and exclusivity was the $650,000 Ferrari Enzo. At $350,000, the LFA begins to look like something of a bargain.
We drove the car on a mixture of autobahn and dual-track roads, as well as at the Nürburging. Everywhere, all day long, it’s an absolute missile.
Thomas Bangma:
The best car that I’ve ever driven in my life as a car journalist. It is an absolute gem, it is amazing…and I think it’s a real shame that they’re only going to build only 500 pieces of it, of this masterpiece.
And I honestly think that every car nut…that wants the best cars ever made in his garage, that this one, this car should be in it…next to Pagani Zondas, McLaren F1s, what have you, Porsche GT3 RS, Carrera GT, this one should be sitting next to these cars in the garage of a guy that really understands his cars. Period.
