This Lexus Lfa With 'high Miles' Is Still Ridiculously Expensive

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The Lexus LFA is simply a small spot of a difficult car to pin down. It had an perfectly glorious people aspirated 4.8-liter V10 that made 552 horsepower and revved to 9,500 RPM, but moreover astatine nan time, it didn't precisely outperform nan competition. Plenty of different supercars had amended acceleration, were quicker connected nan way aliases costs little money. And yet, it was also an engineering marvel, and only 500 were ever built. So while they aren't arsenic uncommon arsenic immoderate different cars, it's still notable erstwhile 1 goes up for sale, for illustration nan 2012 Lexus LFA currently listed connected Bring a Trailer.

With achromatic overgarment and a black-and-red interior, this peculiar LFA isn't precisely nan astir breathtaking spec, astatine slightest arsenic acold arsenic supercars go. Still, it's number 205 retired of only 500 LFAs ever produced, and while it whitethorn not tie nan benignant of crowds connected nan streets that you mightiness pull pinch a flashier Ferrari aliases Lamborghini, it's still an incredibly typical car. I mean, nan motor will allegedly rev from idle to redline successful six tenths of a second. And since it's a Lexus, it's astir apt better-built than immoderate Italian supercar. 

The only problem present is nan price. This auction still has 7 days near astatine nan clip of writing, and bidding is already up to $800,000. No, not $80,000. Not $180,000. Eight 100 1000 U.S. American dollars. By beautiful overmuch immoderate metric, that's an perfectly absurd magnitude of money to walk connected a car. And yet, that's apparently what these cars are worthy these days. Even if you sold half your liver, 1 kidney and a fewer different organs you deliberation you tin do without, you astir apt wouldn't moreover travel adjacent to raising capable money successful bid to bargain one. 

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Considering we're talking astir a supercar that's astir 15 years aged astatine this point, nan 4,400 miles connected this LFA is beautiful darn low. Doing immoderate speedy math, that useful retired to only astir 300 miles a year, which is fundamentally nothing. We're talking hardly much than 25 miles a month. If you aren't nan benignant of personification who tracks Lexus LFA income regularly, it would moreover beryllium understandable if you assumed nan early $800,000 bid was because this is simply a peculiarly low-mileage example. 

Oh no. Not successful nan slightest. In fact, moreover conscionable reviewing caller Bring a Trailer auctions shows nan 4,400-mile LFA really has a batch of miles for an LFA. So acold this year, Bring a Trailer has really listed 3 different LFAs, 1 pinch 952 miles, different pinch 2,100 miles and a 3rd pinch 3,800 miles. In fact, successful bid to find a higher-mile LFA connected BaT, you person to spell each nan measurement backmost to 2021, erstwhile a 7,000-mile LFA sold for $725,000. That was besides much than 20 auctions ago, which surely isn't each LFA ever made, but considering really fewer were ever built, it's decidedly a bully chunk of them. 

You tin decidedly find immoderate LFA owners online who regularly thrust their cars and put existent miles connected them, but those group besides look to beryllium nan exception, alternatively than nan rule. Most of nan time, it seems these owners conscionable don't thrust their cars. No, it isn't precisely news that able collectors bargain costly cars and past don't thrust them, but astatine nan aforesaid time, you'd deliberation if immoderate uncommon supercar was going to beryllium driven, it would beryllium nan Lexus that was built astir an perfectly glorious V10. The truth that isn't nan lawsuit whitethorn beryllium almost arsenic depressing arsenic nan realization that LFAs are almost million-dollar cars, while ones pinch nan Nurburgring Package are closing successful connected $2 million.