But you have to factor in the one big difference, price.
GTR = sub 100,000
LFA = 350,000 (or more)

Ya see, the $375K price--> LFA denotes "Laughing F$cking A$$" off at price.

If I were that wealthy, I'd buy a Ferrari instead...actually lease it. Because "oohh factor" cars go out of vogue in a few years. That's why you see 2005 Ferrari's with like 2,500 miles at like 70% their original price--poor "return" from the intangible "oohh factor."

Price or not, it's visually and im sure technologically going to set the stage for the next decade of supercars. That interior/gauge cluster is amazing IMO. Hats off to Toyota for actually going through with production.

Can someone PLEASE close the hood before taking all these pictures? I still haven't found a single picture with the hood closed. :icon17:









































Seriously , I can't even look at the car with that huge gap in the front. I don't know if anyone want to spend 375K on a LEXUS ... :ugh:

Car just doesn't scream 375k imo... more like $100-150k ish.

AK speaks the truth, it's a Lexus. Sorry just like I wouldn't spend over 20k for a Hyundai(and that's pushing it), and I wouldn't buy a GTR. I sure as hell am not buying a Lex for that price. I honestly don't even find this car that worthy in the looks department?!? I could be alone on this, but oh well.

People will spend $375k on this car. It is a technological marvel, and to some, $375k is spare change. Smurf, I think if you (or I for that matter) could afford a GT-R, we'd buy one as well.

Here's a great site w/vids

2011 Lexus LFA Prices, Images, Specs and Video - egmCarTech

I'd buy a Ferrari, too. The Lex is cool, tho. But hell, people who can afford exotics won't lease them, and I think when pricing gets to this level, the buyers also don't give a rat's a$$ about depreciation, either!

"The rich are different from you and me.
They dine, whereas we merely eat."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

I see LF-A design cues in this concept "Celica"

Production Toyota FT-86 could carry Toyota Celica badge - egmCarTech

http://www.egmcartech.com/wp-content...images_005.jpg

Definitely lacking in the looks department. And toyota must have been on crack thinking that anyone would pay 375000 dollars for a lexus. At least, the GT-R is a very good bargain. Heck, you can buy 4 GT-Rs for the price of one LF-A. For that price range, no one would choose a lexus over a murcielago, 430 scuderia, or even the new 458 italia.

Isn't that why the VW Phaeton turned out to be a major flop? Looks like toyota wasn't paying attention.

By the way, I'm pretty sure you cannot lease a ferrari, or even finance one. I think they only accept cash, cheque, or credit card

You definitely can lease a Ferrari. Leasing a F430 will run you about $4000 a month, not including all the other bullsh*t fees, etc.

Well the debate about a true Japanese exotic is over. This has the engine, the materials, production run etc.

It made very little sense for Toyota to spend all that money in F1 without a halo car, I am very impressed they are going forward.

This car will be very impressive. Probably a milestone. Just look at what the GTR achieved on its limited budget. This is all out engineering, I can't wait to see the test results!

:tiphat: Hats off to you Toyota. It's always been frustrating owning a Supra and knowing what they are capable of, yet they just seemed to frown on anything sporty.

Well that time is certainly over.

Now they're pulling out of F1. Irony, that.

hmmmm
 

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I too was taken back by the gap, but it is functional. That is where the intake scoops are if you check out the engine pic.

I just hope that dude who drove his veryon into a lake doesn't get his grubby hands on this :roflpuke2:

I also think that toyota would do alot better if they revived the supra, and if honda brought back a Mid-engine NSX (don't know why they would deviate from something that made the car so famous) and Mazda just dropped in a 20b or a TT 13b.....

Lexus LFA: Only 150 Lease Cars Coming to U.S.

Published Nov 23, 2009

TORRANCE, California — Lexus confirmed Monday that it will only lease its new LFA supercar to customers in the U.S. and Canada, with a provision to buy the car at the end of the two-year lease.

On the official LFA Web site, Lexus said it was "targeting to offer the base LFA" at 37.5 million yen — around $420,000 at current exchange rates — with any customization charges added to the price.

Lexus began accepting "purchase applications" in October. LFA production begins in December 2010 at Toyota's Motomachi plant in Japan. Cars will be hand-built at the rate of 20 per month for 25 months, with total production limited to 500 cars.

A Lexus spokesman told Inside Line only 150 cars will be coming to the U.S. Previously, Lexus said only 10 LFAs will be available to Canadian customers. Lexus will only be offering the lease-only program in North America.

In an interview with Automotive News, Lexus executive Brian Smith said no LFA will be built until it is ordered.

A story on the Canadian site wheels.ca said the LFA lease deal could cost up to $10,000 a month, including interest, taxes and a hefty insurance premium. Lessees will have a purchase option at the end of the lease.

The wheels.ca story said the lease deal was intended to squelch speculators. It quoted Toyota Canada spokesperson Sandy Di Felice as saying, "What happens with hot new supercars like the LFA is that brokers will purchase them and flip them on Web sites like eBay. You don't want the brand devalued because people are playing silly buggers."
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