When it comes down to owning an exotic super cars, naturally everyone focuses on the performance figures. How fast is 0-100? What is the lap time around Nürburgring? Very few would ask the question on the reliability of those cars. One of their first cars, the yellow P014, now has over 40K miles.
The assembled cars took turns tearing down the strip the way kids take turns with a swing set at recess, and it’s safe to say everyone felt ten years old.
Despite the debauchery of the flight, Gumball Air arrived safely in Scotland, and even amidst the persistent partying, I was able to catch some shuteye–probably because I’m acclimated to a fair degree of degeneracy, but I’ve spent most of this week tired enough that I could fall asleep if I were being set on fire.
The Lexus RC F is few months away from hitting the dealerships and there are still details about the car that Lexus is being quiet on. We still don’t have exact power numbers, weight, or any performance figures.
Mmm… You hear that? That’s 5-liters of V8 Lexus bumbling away under the hood of the RC F. It sounds pissed. It probably is pissed. If you were a race car being forced rev on a glass dais instead of, say, Monza, wouldn’t you be a little miffed?
You can’t be totally prepared for the Gumball 3000. The full frontal assault of ferocious supercars, exotic locales and block rocking parties is enough to turn the brains of most mortals into an exhaust-rattled, octane-spiked blob of tapioca pudding.
Lexus have been the lords of high MPG luxury for as long as that’s been a thing, but they’re also the leading champs when it comes to building fast hybrids. After tooling around in the Lexus GS450h for a week, I’ve come to a conclusion: Hybrids, on the whole, don’t suck. Slow hybrids suck.