20/08/2025
Lexus LFA
“This is a Lexus. I know, doesn’t look like one, does it? It doesn’t sound like a Lexus from the details, either. I mean, it has a 4.8-litre 552 brake-horsepower V10. It also has a carbon-fibre body, and it does nought-to-sixty in 3.7 seconds and has a top speed of 200 miles an hour. This is what happens when you tell Lexus engineers to stop making quiet, dull saloons for people who play golf. Let off the leash, they go mad and make this — the LFA, a car that sounds like an F1 racer and goes like a Ferrari 458, as it should when you discover it costs twice as much. But just to prove they haven’t forgotten their insane attention to detail, the Lexus boffins have given it dashboard vents that gently waft from side to side to make sure the air is evenly distributed around the cabin. This is a Lexus in the same sense that I’m a 400-metre runner. In other words, it isn’t a Lexus at all. What this is, is Toyota showing us exactly what they’re capable of, and it turns out what they’re capable of is quite a lot.”
— Jeremy Clarkson
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