2011 Lexus LF-A
2011 Lexus LF-A
2011 Lexus LF-A
2011 Lexus LF-A
2011 Lexus LF-A
It's assuredly official! The Lexus LF-A has just fabricated its apple admission at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. The Toyota congenital cool car will be bound to a assembly run of alone 500 units, anniversary priced at $375,000. The Japanese affluence automaker is already demography orders, about the first
As you ability already know, the LF-A is powered by a 4.8 liter V10 that delivers a best achievement of 560 HP at 9,000 RPM and a aiguille torque of 354 lb-ft at 6,800 RPM, with 90% of the absolute torque getting accessible amid the 3,700 RPM mark and the cool car's 9,000 RPM red line. As a aftereffect of such a alley torque curve, the LF-A can dart from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.7 abnormal and won't stop until it alcove a top acceleration of 202 MPH.
In adjustment to ensure that the LF-A handles as able-bodied as it goes in a beeline line, the Lexus architecture aggregation congenital failing abstracts like aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and titanium alloys as able-bodied as some carbon cilia to ensure that the LF-A is as adamant as accessible while advancement a low barrier weight. Even the new cool car's ability bulb is bunched in size, abate than a accepted V8, which accustomed the Toyota engineers to architecture the LF-A with the optimal weight administration and an aberrant ability to weight ratio. Thus giving Nissan and their GT-R cool car something to watch out for.
UPDATE 06/02/2010: Analysis out the new Lexus bartering for the LF-A afterwards the jump. It's artlessly musical! You can aswell analysis out how the bartering was fabricated with the video afterward the commercial.
Updated 01/18/2011: The first-ever assembly archetypal - a ablaze orange adaptation agnate to the Nurburgring Package - of the LF-A was just formed out of the assembly block.
The plan on the car is done by 170 humans all of which accept a specific role in the body of the Japanese supercar. Among them cover specialists that alone handle the carbon cilia apparatus begin in the car. In accession to that, the architecture of the LF-A and all the consecutive procedures done on anniversary car are recorded and kept on journals, with anniversary of these journals estimated to be 3,500 pages long.
Source : TopSpeed
As you ability already know, the LF-A is powered by a 4.8 liter V10 that delivers a best achievement of 560 HP at 9,000 RPM and a aiguille torque of 354 lb-ft at 6,800 RPM, with 90% of the absolute torque getting accessible amid the 3,700 RPM mark and the cool car's 9,000 RPM red line. As a aftereffect of such a alley torque curve, the LF-A can dart from 0 to 60 MPH in just 3.7 abnormal and won't stop until it alcove a top acceleration of 202 MPH.
In adjustment to ensure that the LF-A handles as able-bodied as it goes in a beeline line, the Lexus architecture aggregation congenital failing abstracts like aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and titanium alloys as able-bodied as some carbon cilia to ensure that the LF-A is as adamant as accessible while advancement a low barrier weight. Even the new cool car's ability bulb is bunched in size, abate than a accepted V8, which accustomed the Toyota engineers to architecture the LF-A with the optimal weight administration and an aberrant ability to weight ratio. Thus giving Nissan and their GT-R cool car something to watch out for.
UPDATE 06/02/2010: Analysis out the new Lexus bartering for the LF-A afterwards the jump. It's artlessly musical! You can aswell analysis out how the bartering was fabricated with the video afterward the commercial.
Updated 01/18/2011: The first-ever assembly archetypal - a ablaze orange adaptation agnate to the Nurburgring Package - of the LF-A was just formed out of the assembly block.
The plan on the car is done by 170 humans all of which accept a specific role in the body of the Japanese supercar. Among them cover specialists that alone handle the carbon cilia apparatus begin in the car. In accession to that, the architecture of the LF-A and all the consecutive procedures done on anniversary car are recorded and kept on journals, with anniversary of these journals estimated to be 3,500 pages long.
Source : TopSpeed
2013 Lexus GS-F
2013 Lexus GS-F
When Lexus apparent the IS-F aback in 2008, the apple seemed to be impressed. While German automakers acicular and laughed at it, the archetypal climbed its way up to be able adversary on the market, and now Lexus is advancing addition archetypal fit to accord its German competitors added affidavit to fear. The Japanese bazaar is advancing to barrage the GS-F, a archetypal that will yield on cars like the BMW M5 and the Mercedes E63 AMG.
This isn't the aboriginal time we see something about the GS-F, but this time, its official: an F adaptation will be launched with the new bearing GS set to be appear ancient in 2012.Expect the approaching GS-F to amalgamate architecture elements from the approaching bearing GS and F elements from the IS-F sports sedan. Under the awning there will be the aforementioned V8 engine as begin in the IS-F, but upgraded to bear about in the 450 HP range. Hit the jump to apprehend added about the approaching Lexus GS-F.
The Engine
The 2012 GS will be congenital on a cast new belvedere which will be sportier and added efficient. The engine agency will cover a new V6 engine and a 3.5 liter engine that will alter the accepted 4.6-liter V-8. A amalgam adaptation has aswell been confirmed. And if you were assured to see a V10 engine beneath the awning of the GS-F, able-bodied this just won’t happen. Instead, Lexus will use an upgraded adaptation of the 5.0-liter V-8 from the IS-F, developing about 450 HP. It will aswell get a torque vectoring cogwheel on the rear arbor and a weight abridgement acknowledgment to the use of carbon-fiber.
The Competition
Hey BMW M5 and Mercedes E63 AMG! Are you afraid yet?
By the time the Lexus GS-F goes on sale, BMW would accept already brought out the new bearing M5. It will be powered by a a twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 that will put out about 555 HP which will accomplish it added able than the old version. The Mercedes E63 AMG is powered by a 6.3-liter V8 engine that delivers a absolute of 525 hp and a aiguille torque of 630 NM which enables the car to dart from 0 to 60 mph in just 4.5 seconds, while top acceleration is bound to 155 mph. The advantage of the approaching GS-F is that it will be offered with no acceleration limit, so barter will be able to hit speeds of up to 180 mph with no restriction.
The Lexus IS started its activity aback in 1998, but afterwards 12 years of actuality the alone affair this car is seeing is a babyish facelift for the 2011 archetypal year. 2014 Lexus IS This may all change, however, because we are now audition that this affluence auto will be advancing into its third bearing in 2014. To set up the date a little, we're traveling to allocution a little about the Toyota FT-86, which we all apperceive is the sports car developed in cooperation with Subaru that has been delayed absolutely a few times now.
However, the FT-86 is not alone about this sports coupe, or about the babyish archetypal accounted to be based on it. 2014 Lexus IS Rumors advance that the next bearing Lexus IS will aswell allotment the aforementioned belvedere with the FT-86 and that it will in actuality be a four-door adaptation of the approaching sports car. The architecture will aswell be aggressive by the FT-86, but beneath the awning there will be a absolutely altered engine. Hit the jump to acquisition out added data on the third bearing Lexus IS.
The Engine
While the Toyota FT-86 will be powered by a 2.0-liter flat-4 Subaru sourced engine, the IS will be powered by a 2.5-liter by itself aspirated 4-cylinder and/or a 3.6-liter flat-6. The 2014 Lexus IS F will abide with a activating V-8 with an achievement of added than 400 HP. The IS-F will dart from 0 to 60 mph dart in about 4.5 abnormal and will hit a top acceleration of about 170 mph.
The Competition
The approaching Lexus IS will yield on models like the Acura TL, Infiniti G, and the BMW 3-Series that will all access into their new ancestors by then. BMW usually puts petrol inline six-cylinder engines beneath the 3-Series hood, but with the next bearing they accept promised a new turbocharged four-cylinder engine. That will accord the next IS a lot to anticipate about. The next Infiniti G on the added duke is accounted to be offered with a 3.5-liter amalgam aggregate engine taken from the M35 that produces an achievement of about 360 HP, and that is aswell a additional over the Lexus model. However, in the end, it's what the aggregation is alms for the money that will advertise cars.
2011 Lexus CT 200h F Sport
2011 Lexus CT 200h F Sport
2011 Lexus CT 200h F Sport
The 2011 Tokyo Motor Show gathers all kinds of tuned-up vehicles, be they sports cars, hybrids, or the added approved models. In this affectation of tuner heaven, companies can lay it all out on the table, and Modellista's Lexus CT 200h F Sport is the absolute archetype of that. The Japanese tuner is now alms a appealing absorbing affability kit for the sports amalgam that includes some nice exoteric updates.
Okay, so maybe the exoteric updates are the alone things Modellista added to the CT 200h, but they still transform the car absolutely nicely. Lexus CT 200h F Sport All the car bare was a foreground bonanza add-on element, a set of ancillary skirts, a adapted rear accessory and a new bankrupt blueprint to get it searching like a cast new machine. A new set of 18" wheels, LED fog lights, and some chrome elements top off the amalgamation and complete the look.
Since no added updates were made, the Lexus CT200h F-Sport is still powered by the aforementioned 1.8 liter VVT-i petrol engine accumulated to a able electric motor, a generator, a top achievement battery, a ability ascendancy unit, and a ability breach device. Lexus CT 200h F Sport We're absolutely not all that afraid that the engine bureaucracy was afflicted because it seems appealing abounding already. The absolute achievement delivered by the amalgam arrangement is 134 HP.
The Lexus GS is absolutely accepting continued in the tooth, but here's the aboriginal affirmation an all-new archetypal is on the way.
While this Lexus GS "mule" is antic accepted bodywork, there are a few noteworthy areas. The tacked-on fender flares announce that the clue has acceptable developed in amplitude by a few inches. There are aswell added physique panels that accept been shoe-horned into the physique in foreground of the rear annoy and abaft it. So the GS will acceptable accretion a few inches in breadth as well.
Advertisement We apprehend that Lexus would like to transform the GS into a added performance-oriented car. Along with bigger performance, rumors of edgier architecture are circulating.
