LFA
2010–2012·Japan
Specifications
- Engine
- 4.8L Naturally Aspirated V10
- Engine Name
- 1LR-GUE
- 0–100 km/h
- 3.7s
- Top Speed
- 325 km/h
- Power
- 552 hp
- Drivetrain
- RWD Front-Mid-Engine
- Transmission
- 6-speed Automated Sequential Gearbox
- Units Made
- 500
- Year
- 2010–2012
The Lexus LFA
is a front-mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive supercar powered by the 1LR-GUE 4.8-litre naturally aspirated V10 engine.
The Lexus LFA is the car that changed the emotional vocabulary of Lexus. Before it, Lexus was admired for refinement, silence, build quality, and durability. With the LFA, the brand created something altogether less expected: a hand-built V10 supercar whose defining quality was not comfort, but response. Toyota announced the LFA in October 2009 as the pinnacle of the Lexus F premium sports-car series, with production limited to 500 units worldwide and scheduled from December 2010 to December 2012. Its European-market specification listed the 1LR-GUE 4,805 cc V10 at 412 kW / 560 PS, a six-speed ASG, front-engine rear-wheel-drive layout, 1,480 kg vehicle weight, 325 km/h maximum speed, and 0–100 km/h in 3.7 seconds.
The LFA matters because it was not a predictable car. Lexus could have built a faster luxury coupé, a grander GT, or a safer halo car drawn from familiar German templates. Instead, it built a carbon-bodied, high-revving, front-mid-engine machine whose purpose was to make Lexus feel alive. Its construction was central to that change. Lexus moved from an initial aluminium strategy to carbon fibre reinforced plastic, then decided to develop and build the CFRP structure in-house rather than outsource it. Lexus stated that CFRP saved around 100 kg compared with an equivalent aluminium body and accounted for 65 percent of the body-in-white, with aluminium used for the remaining 35 percent. The LFA’s legacy is therefore not only that it was rare or expensive. Its legacy is that Toyota and Lexus chose the difficult path: special engine, special structure, special production line, special sound, and a car that could not be mistaken for any ordinary luxury product.
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