Originally Posted by gengar

By the way, I was surprised to find insurance for the LFA quite reasonable even on a mileage limit that's very high. I decided to go with State Farm based on positive recommendations from other exotic owners and the fact that they often include track DE under insurance, but when I spoke to my local agent he told me he doesn't offer anything less than 7,500mi/year (when he first told me that, I was ready to bail to another local agent because I was looking for something closer to 3-4k but the result wound up being fine).

In fact, my LFA insurance is only a little higher than a quote I got from State Farm several years ago for an M3, when I was comparing insurance between the M3, IS F, and 911 C2S. I think I have posted before elsewhere on the forums that the M3 was by far the highest of the 3, shockingly even higher than the C2S despite the C2S' much higher sticker.

This may change my mind about ownership costs for exotics.

Originally Posted by gengar

By the way, I was surprised to find insurance for the LFA quite reasonable even on a mileage limit that's very high. I decided to go with State Farm based on positive recommendations from other exotic owners and the fact that they often include track DE under insurance, but when I spoke to my local agent he told me he doesn't offer anything less than 7,500mi/year (when he first told me that, I was ready to bail to another local agent because I was looking for something closer to 3-4k but the result wound up being fine).

In fact, my LFA insurance is only a little higher than a quote I got from State Farm several years ago for an M3, when I was comparing insurance between the M3, IS F, and 911 C2S. I think I have posted before elsewhere on the forums that the M3 was by far the highest of the 3, shockingly even higher than the C2S despite the C2S' much higher sticker.

This may change my mind about ownership costs for exotics.

Originally Posted by S2000toIS350

Glad to hear the insurance thing was a happy ending.

When I was at Infineon, one guy said he was quoted about $5K. I think that was the guy in Memphis.

The guy in MD who has 10 high end cars said he just throws them on his fleet insurance for his construction company and didn't have a number (and didn't seem to care).

Back to the endless requests. I have not seen any pics of the custom luggage.
Could you please share a few images of the pieces closed and opened up?

Other minor trivia, on one of the videos on You Tube from the recent Autobahn event, one guy said his boss got the first LFA in the midwest and that the boss also has an LS600h. This must be Mr 026.

Originally Posted by S2000toIS350

When I was at Infineon, one guy said he was quoted about $5K. I think that was the guy in Memphis.

Originally Posted by rominl

really? wow, this is cool (and interesting). i am paying only about 600/6mos for the m3 (and it's the convertible already), so if you say the lfa is only a little more, that's not bad at all!

Originally Posted by S2000toIS350

When I was at Infineon, one guy said he was quoted about $5K. I think that was the guy in Memphis.

Originally Posted by S2000toIS350

Back to the endless requests. I have not seen any pics of the custom luggage.
Could you please share a few images of the pieces closed and opened up?

Originally Posted by gengar

1200/yr is a really good rate for an M3. I was quoted around 2700/yr by State Farm for the M3 back in 2008 and a little less for the C2S. 911 Turbo is of course in a different ballpark from these cars.

I am pretty young and I only get discounts for my education, so my insurance rates do tend to be higher. I was pleasantly surprised by the LFA quote.




I wonder if he went for small insurers who specialize in exotics because those were ridiculous for me. I went through a couple I gleaned off ferrarichat and 6speedonline and some of them were as high as $9000/yr even for limited mile contracts.




According to one of the Lexus Central PS, they haven't been manufactured yet. They'll be sent to owners at some point. They might not fit in the LFA at delivery anyway because of the car cover, although I suppose that could just be thrown into one of the custom bags or the passenger seat.

Originally Posted by gengar

By the way, I was surprised to find insurance for the LFA quite reasonable even on a mileage limit that's very high. I decided to go with State Farm based on positive recommendations from other exotic owners and the fact that they often include track DE under insurance, but when I spoke to my local agent he told me he doesn't offer anything less than 7,500mi/year (when he first told me that, I was ready to bail to another local agent because I was looking for something closer to 3-4k but the result wound up being fine).

In fact, my LFA insurance is only a little higher than a quote I got from State Farm several years ago for an M3, when I was comparing insurance between the M3, IS F, and 911 C2S. I think I have posted before elsewhere on the forums that the M3 was by far the highest of the 3, shockingly even higher than the C2S despite the C2S' much higher sticker.

This may change my mind about ownership costs for exotics.

Originally Posted by S2000toIS350

New worthless trivia. The front bumper has micro dimples that looked like they ase spaced to make it easy drill holes to mount a Euro license plate.