Toyota released a short press release today saying that Lexus is scheduled to show a two-seat performance car at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show later this month. Yes, we kind of knew that already and the two-seat supercar is none other than the Lexus LF-A. Yesterday, Toyota dropped a bunch of details on its new FT-86 [...]
During his first major address to the U.S. audience, Toyota’s new president and CEO Akio Toyoda confirmed that the company will be offering an affordable, fun-to-drive sports car for the American market within a few years. Of course, most of us know that he’s talking about the Toyobaru – internally known as the 086A. What we missed [...]
Toyota has confirmed that it will unveil the production version of the Lexus LF-A supercar at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Insiders say that the production model will be very different looking from the Nurburgring 24-Hour Race model that debuted last month. Spies have now grabbed the first ever pictures of the production model under [...]
Just yesterday we heard updates on the Lexus LF-A that will make its production debut at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show later this year. It was reported that the LF-A is now reaching a top speed of more than 218 mph? Pretty hot right? So hot that the Lexus LF-A race version that ran laps [...]
The Lexus LF-A has been long considered a competitor to the company’s Japanese-rival – the Nissan GT-R. Well, if AutoExpress is to be believed, the LF-A will leave the Nissan GT-R in the dust in terms of speed and price. Sources close to Lexus say that the engineers were not at all happy about the LF-A’s [...]
Lexus today released photos of its new 2009 Lexus LF-A 24-Hours Nurburgring Race version. Lexus said that the race version was “developed with an eye toward commercial release.” Lexus engineers will use feedback from the 24-Hour Race to tune the production LF-A’s performance. Power comes from a 4.8L V10 making more than 500-hp. The Lexus LF-A will [...]
Lexus announced today that the two-seater LF-A Prototype will be returning to the 24-Hour Nurburgring Race. Lexus says that the race version of the LF-A that will enter the race will be “developed with an eye toward commercial release.” Engineers will be on hand to use feedback from the grueling race to further enhance the [...]
It is reported that only 14 automakers will be present at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Nonetheless, the show is expected to be pretty exciting with Japanese automakers making some significant debuts. Toyota’s Akio Toyoda will be taking over the steering wheel as the company’s CEO starting April. That alone is expected to generate some [...]
So you’re still weeping about Honda canning the Acura NSX. Don’t worry – because despite the global economic crisis there are still a couple of high-performance cars that will still come out of Japan for you to drool over. According to Inside Line, Nissan is still working on four-door GT-R that will be badged an [...]
While Honda has pulled the plug on the high-performance NSX supercar, Toyota said that it will not abandon plans to bring the Lexus LF-A to the market by 2011. Toyota recently teased the LF-A supercar at Toyota”s Motorsport Festival at Fuji Speedway. Toyota confirmed its commitment to the LF-A program as it announced that it will keep [...]
