It is not a direct, but rather a 'spiritual', successor to the LFA supercar, whose 10-cylinder Lexus actually had more than a hard time selling.
The Lexus LFA hit right next to it. At least when it was launched in December 2010.
Although the Japanese built just 500 examples of the car and enlisted Yamaha's help in developing a screamer of a V10 engine, new cars were still on sale several years after production stopped in 2012.
Now – more than 12 years later – Lexus promises to try again with a supercharged supercar. However, it does not get a V10 engine.
That's what Autocar writes.
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Instead, the Japanese will put a V8 engine between the front wheels to be able to compete with car brands such as Aston Martin Vantage and Mercedes-AMG GT. The plan is to homologate a prototype of the racing car called the GT3 GR, which Toyota showed off already in 2022.
Autocar further writes that Lexus will probably call the new top model the LFR, and that it will have a definite weight that does not exceed 1,300 kilos.
In this way, the Japanese will have a counterpart to Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Ford, Lamborghini, Lexus, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche's model programs, which already contain street-approved GT3 cars.
How Toyota/Lexus approaches the task is increasingly unclear. But the car will probably get a V8 engine, because that's what the competitors agree with.
That the LFA now gets a successor must also be seen as an extension of the Toyota group's view of the whole debate about electric cars. The Japanese don't buy the explanation that wired cars are the only thing right.
Most recently, Toyota, together with Subaru and Mazda, has promised to throw billions of kroner into the development of e.g. the wankel engine. Read more about it here .
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