Could Lexus Unleash This RC F GT Concept?

By adpock - May 11, 2016

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Earlier this month, Pro driver Scott Pruett took some lucky media folk around the Long Beach street circuit for a few hot laps in the ultra-hot Lexus RC F GT Concept.

The Concept utilizes carbon more enthusiastically than Donald Trump utilizes hairspray. There’s carbon fiber in the doors, trunk, hood, and fenders. There’s polycarbonate in the side windows. The interior has been pretty much stripped clean, and the center console has been replaced with a carbon-fiber “tent,” as Car and Driver puts it.

All of this serves to lighten the car significantly, to the tune of 3130 pounds dripping wet, which is more than 900 pounds less than the “two-ton slab of iron” RC F.

But just because Lexus lightened the car, that doesn’t mean they lightened the power, as the Concept still employs that naturally aspirated, 5.0-liter V8 found in the the regular RC F (as well as the GS F and the future LC 500). But instead of 467 horsepower, the GT Concept makes “467-plus.” So it’s also got that going for it. Which is nice, especially when combined with all that weight-loss.

Even nicer is that, according to C&D, “rumors are circulating that the car is already approved for very limited production and sale in the Japanese market.” And they even mention the possibility of the car coming to the States as a track-only monster. So buckle up!