Well said. Ferarri, Lamborghini...and all the best in the world apply.

 

I thought the Nurburgring Edition not available in yellow ? .....oh well, but it's not a production car.
Anyway, I think they shouldn't limit the Nurburgring edition to only 4 exterior colors, people should be able to order any exterior color they like, same as the regular LFA ......

 

Its not yellow. That is Orange on the LFA. In certain lighting it appears yellow, but really its the color balance and the camera's inability to properly process the color.

 

If that's true, that's WAY off the orange color on the Nurburgring edition that I saw in other pictures

 

This is the actual Orange that was painted on the wrapped prototype earlier this year:

Here it is at "The GALLERY" event in Detroit, the day before the opening of Press day at NAIAS.



Here is the LFA on the show floor under high intensity lighting:




Here is the same car few weeks later in Fontana under overcast conditions:




And for comparisons sake...here's the Orange LFA with the Pearl Yellow:






Here it is inside the Auto Club Speedway Paddock right before Bad Company takes it away to have the wrap removed:




They should have named this orange "Tang Orange" because of its yellow orange appearance.

 

Thats definitely a NURB edition in the video. The thing sounds louder, maybe it is, or might have been the part of the track it was filmed.

 

We done with this topic yet? LOL Just wait till the Nurburgring Edition tests in the SAME condition...(which is impossible now that it can't be done on the same day into the past)... Nur version may go faster, but I'm sure Nissan is feverishly making sure the GTR will go faster when that challenge comes up too, more so and more important for Nissan to prove that than LFA having to hang around tending to item list less important and on the agenda of something less important like this, as LFA is not born for the reason of pounding Fuji laps. GTR has to be fast. It's the only selling attribute it has, while the LFA exists for many other reasons than promoting on the same mentality as SONY's Gran Turismo.

 

Again, not a word for word translation, but contextual and summarized.

WINDING ROAD and Express Way:

Keiichi Tsuchiya(GT500/GR-A/LEMAN24 driver, Testing Engineer, Journalist):
"The sound is incredible, easy to drive too"
"Mystically, despite the front engine, the sound seems to surround you from all around you with a rear bias. Such clever acoustic engineering! The car feels so good!
Both amateur and pros will get the same enjoyment despite the difference in talent and speed.
The transmission shift feel is the simply magical, you can't stop smiling. Phenomenal throttle blipping and shift engagement and timing. You feel as if you became a better driver. You just need to simply be an adult, and intelligent, knowing a good thing, to enjoy its merits.

Each corner, this car will not exhibit any sense of terror to the driver. The balance of speed, corner G's, and braking forces are so well tuned and confidence-inspiring that things just feels very relaxed. This is the true merit of the LFA that excels beyond other cars. One does not need to tense up, or prepare to drive this because its a "super-sports car."
You just drive it as if its a normal road going car, despite the fact that its capabilities are one of the top rated and designed in the world."

Shimashimo (Journalist):
"I'm at a loss of words, but I simply will say, I am on the highway, and all I can feel is that I am definitely lucky to drive such a car in an era that it can exist. It's an amazing machine."
"The Lexus LFA is certainly an exotic. But despite the fact that LFA is in this category where unruly sharpness or character faults are accepted as a norm of the industry and craft, the LFA just has none of the unacceptable traits, and one can tell that Lexus wanted no part of anything negative in this car. As such it is an amazing balance of performance, quality, reliability, and general sensation and enjoyment of driving"
That's the core value of LFA, and I higly value the thinking that goes behind the scenes and in the development with the people at Toyota, and who define a category called LEXUS. Well done. Perfectly indeed, a Lexus."

Terry Ito (Motor Journalist/TV Producer):
"It's great to be able to drive a super exotic with right side steering wheel.
Because its a Toyota, I feel very safe in terms of investment into a product.
Today's wealthy folks, aren't necessarily historical car fanatics, they may be investors or overnight entrepreneurs, who haven't had a long history with million dollar exotics. This car while in every bit a traditional sports car's intrinsic goodness, also redefine what demands they place on owners.
LFA asks very little of the drivers, and allows them to just enjoy the best attributes of a sports car in its best form.
This is one of the most obviously fine example of a car that may make them feel great, the new rich. There are no ill attributes that forces them to live with a idiosyncrasy of owning an exotic.
I want one, it's something I can be both happy and proud to own.
____

If I may add to this, one can realize that none of the journalists here are speaking in terms of comparison of simple numbers. All of them attribute and credit the much more difficult job that has been done in defining and making the LFA the perfect all around sports road car that is Lexus, which is the very intrinsic nature of this car.

 

Here is the video:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaTQ...layer_embedded

 

Looks like this is #026. It was just gone in a few split seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZHJ3EUciJA

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1jge...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4txbk...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-YgL...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbxa...layer_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8veR...layer_embedded

Getting sideways.

 

nice vids! love the second one!

 

Source: Translogic

 

nice footage in that vid. nice find

 

Yeah they text me about this lol