MR_F1

Did somebody say boost? Where's the vid. That will be the tell tale sign of what's powering this thing.

MR_F1

The aero enhancements look really interesting. Bigger winglets, vortex generators, front splitter, side splitter, door treatment (top edge), side skirting, HUGE diffuser....

Colour me intrigued.

05RollaXRS

What is a vortex generator???

p.s. Mark my words down, it is N/A.

CrazyMPG

iTrader: (4)

very interesting color...they should put a silver bow on the roof to finish it up...

Individual

iTrader: (7)

I think it's clever how they make the front bumper side marker/turn signals into a side splitter for form and function.

rominl

iTrader: (4)

actually i think it's like regulation. that's how lfa in europe has always looked like. but here in the US i think it's more flat

Individual

iTrader: (7)

Oh ok, didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.

S2000toIS350

Rolla
Vortex generator alter airflow
The previous Mitsubishi Evos offered them on the back edge of the roof

05RollaXRS

Thanks.

07grIS350

A very interesting LFA.
With the exhaust pipes crowding out the radiators, I have to guess this car requires less cooling than the 'normal' LFA. Maybe some sort of hybrid LFA?

wickedsc3

iTrader: (3)

My guess is this is the test bed for the LF-LC engine, but there are also a lot of new aero pieces to. Maybe they are testing the aftermarket parts like they just released for the ISF CCS-P. Just a guess, it very well could be another special edition. I just think it might be hard to get the green light for 2 special editions of a car they were losing money on.

05RollaXRS

No definitely not an LF-LC. The dash cowel looks identical to that of the LFA and the seats/steering wheel are placed exactly just aft of the rear axle, which is where the LFA seats are. That makes it impossible for it to be an LF-LC because the LF-LC will have rear seats.

When Lexus say they are losing money on LFA, that includes all of the cost of the purpose-built factory, all of the special R&D to build all of the components for the LFA including the engine.

Now, with all of that done, technically Lexus can actually make money and profit by re-using most of the components and tweaking them to develop a better and improved LFA 2.

They also need a production LFA next year to compete in the Nurburgring racing otherwise, they have nothing to go head to head with the best cars there.

TF109B

They never did go head to head with the best cars there. They have always used a production based LFA. The 'best there' are the GT3's. I doubt Lexus will make a GT3 LFA. The street car already approaches those cars in terms of price. A racing version of the LFA would be great, but I doubt it's going to be running VLN races

05RollaXRS

The first picture in this video shows Lexus factory test driver driving it. That confirms it is actually a Lexus prototype and not some tuning company developing parts for it.

07grIS350

Holy smoke, 800 hp LFA. I want that upgrade ASAP.