Listen To V8-powered Lexus Lfr Supercar And Race Car Prototypes Roar Up The Goodwood Hill

Goodwood Festival of Speed

The Lexus LC 500 is an perfectly gorgeous car pinch an incredible, people aspirated V8 engine, but it's still nary LFA replacement. The LC is simply a expansive tourer, while nan LFA was a full-on supercar pinch a V10 motor that sounded for illustration the champion Lincoln Continental you've ever heard. Don't worry, though. Lexus decided to walk immoderate of nan money it made selling RX 350s to retirees successful nan Villages connected a caller supercar, presently rumored to beryllium called nan LFR. (These prototypes are called the Toyota GT conception and Toyota GT Racing concept, but they'll surely extremity up arsenic Lexuses moreover successful nan location marketplace — aliases possibly Toyota will get its ain type too?) While we still don't cognize galore specifics, Lexus did springiness america a bully look astatine nan last creation erstwhile it ran 2 camouflaged LFR prototypes up nan elevation astatine nan Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Neither car appeared to beryllium moving astatine afloat speed, but that besides isn't terribly astonishing since some are conscionable prototypes astatine this point. Still, it was bully to get a look astatine some nan road-going car, arsenic good arsenic nan GT3 title car version. I'm besides sad to study that nan engines sounded overmuch much for illustration V8s than V10s, moreover if location was fundamentally nary chance we'd really spot a V10. A girl tin dream, though, right? That said, moreover nether nan camouflage, you tin spot nan LFR has an almost cartoonishly agelong dash-to-axle ratio. 

Personally, I emotion what I've seen truthful acold and admit nan old-school 1990s proportions, but I'm judge location are a fewer weirdos retired location who will dislike nan thought of a Hot Wheels car they could thrust successful existent life. I besides can't ideate a manual transmission will beryllium an option, either, truthful you tin besides adhd that to nan database of reasons you'll ne'er bargain a car that fewer group will beryllium capable to spend successful nan first place.

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While Lexus astir apt won't talk astir specs until nan LFR is revealed, nan title car will person to comply pinch GT3 requirements, truthful some weight and powerfulness astir apt won't show america overmuch astir nan roadworthy car. After all, successful bid to race, it will person to measurement betwixt 2645 pounds and 2866 pounds, while powertrain output must beryllium betwixt 500 and 600 horsepower. 

However, if you believe Car & Driver, nan street-legal LFR will get a twin-turbocharged V8 that's supplemented pinch immoderate benignant of hybrid system. The folks who are huffy Lexus isn't processing a manual V10 will astir apt beryllium disappointed by nan hybrid thing, too, but travel on. Lexus loves its hybrids, and emissions regulations will only get stricter successful nan coming years, truthful it shouldn't really beryllium that large of a astonishment to spot nan LFR spell hybrid.

Then again, that turbocharged V8 hybrid powertrain should besides make immoderate superior power, since it'll person to compete pinch different modern supercars. I don't cognize if we'll spot Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X numbers from nan Lexus, but surely, it'll astatine slightest hit the Corvette E-Ray, right? I'm choosing to believe, astatine least. 

Sadly, if you were already readying to bargain one, our friends at Car & Driver also expect nan LFR to beryllium hideously expensive. Like "$550,000 conscionable to get successful nan door" expensive. But that's astir apt fine. I mean, who doesn't person a cool half-million dollars conscionable sitting around, burning a spread successful their pocket?