Lexus LFA

Lexus LFA - Double, 2-door supercar Japan's Lexus, the first car company in a similar class. Was first introduced as a concept car, racing prototype, and as a serial vehicle. This is the second model in the F line car brand Lexus, after the IS F. Three versions of the concept LF-A have been shown at the North American International Auto Show as a concept series of LF. The premiere of the first LF-A concept was held in 2005. In 2007, shows a second LF-A with a modified version of the interior and exterior. The third version of the LF-A - Roadster, which premiered in 2008. The production model LF-A, was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2009.

Lexus LFA supercar will be released in 500 copies only on individual orders. The construction - carbon fiber monocoque, the engine is at the front, drive - the rear wheels. Lexus LFA is equipped with a 4.8-liter V10 engine capacity of 560 liters. with., working together with a six-speed robotized gearbox. In 2011, a version Nurburgring with uprated to 571 hp. s. engine and modified aerodynamics.

Estimated price for customers from Russia - 500 000.

Results on the slopes	not caught up with	overtaken
1/31Goodwood 1:22.62	№1	Nissan GT-R
8/95Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours 1:20.63	Nissan GT-R (550hp)	Nissan GT-R (530hp)
9/29Fuji Speedway (после 2005) 1:55.1	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (2009)	KTM X-Bow R
13/53Autocar Handling Track 1:11.6	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG	Porsche 911 GT3
13/111Virginia International Raceway 2:55.1	Ferrari F430 Scuderia	Nissan GT-R
14/182Balocco 2:48.52	Lamborghini Gallardo SE	Porsche 911 GT3
16/64Laguna Seca 1:36.39	Nissan GT-R (530hp)	Porsche 911 GT3 RS (2009)
22/178Hockenheim Short 1:11	Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera	Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Spyder
38/164Nurburgring Nordschleife 7:38	Porsche 911 Carrera S PDK	Ferrari F430 Scuderia

Here is what the famous magazine Top Gear:
http://www.topgearrussia.ru/cars/supertests/180229/52ccf870.html

Lexus LFA V10 in the unwound from idle to red sector in just 0.6 seconds.
So rapidly that the analog tachometer needle does not have time for it, and designers have put digital.
Tayota says that for perfect handling 52% of the weight should fall on the rear axle. Therefore, radiator and battery with LFA in the feed. And the washer tank too.

A box with a clutch, long-eared. Switching unhurried, but grab furious. The transition from gear to gear - like Mr Muscle with all his slapped you on the back. Sledgehammer. A full sense of the race car.

Body normal, but aerodynamics is unique. As I recently discovered at Willow Springs in California, the faster you go - the better traction.

Special pipes roar of the engine output to the salon. And there's a woman in the trunk, which will help to find the nearest restaurant with Japanese and European cuisine. I love this LFA. So much so that I recently called it the best car in my life.
Naturally, Hammond and May were laughing loudly. Mainly because (and this they repeated a hundred times) that the car is worth € 426,941. Almost five times more expensive than Nissan GT-R, although he will potehnologichnee. Much more expensive Ferarri 458 and Mercedes SLS. Price, they urged me, unthinkable.
Inefficiency. If the LFA is too expensive, then the "Mona Lisa" is not worth the hundred billion. Sculpture by Henry Moore for twenty million? What for? Sold at a charity sale otter excellent stone for only five piece.

Yes the price is here at all to do with it. After all, it's not the car, and the holiday technologies. Howling, flying, screeching tires peak industrial decorations. He would have been in the garage with climate control, a collection, as a period piece. In any case it is not a machine, which is bought for a ride. After all, just ride it sometimes gets pretty tiring.
For all the brilliant details and the sense that it was created by maniacs AvtoDela are rooted minor bugs. All they surfaced when I decided to hit the road to the pub for lunch.
BBC announcers more strongly advised not to drive a car today without the most pressing need for it. Since lunch is the very need! And in general, had a great day. Not a cloud in the sky, the ground beneath a thin crust of ice crust.

So, I sat down in the LFA and just ten minutes, turning the neck, pierced lung and gut tightening knot, fastened only inconvenient timing. After another ten minutes, I overcame a terrible turning circle and turned in 77 receptions, sent-the same car in the right direction. But did not go anywhere because the bus started on racing technology, refused to enter into contact with the ice-covered gravel.
I unbuttoned his safety strap, took out a shovel, a blowtorch and a cloth. After 10 minutes, even more hungry to work and looking forward to lunch, I again got behind the wheel. After 10 minutes strapped. And then he went.
I wanted to drink. I slazil in the pocket on the door for a can of soda and took a sip. I saw that there is no place to put the jar - no cupholders. Nothing, because the Lexus fuel tank at seven per cent less than the Zippo.

And I turned on the gas station at the entrance skrebanuv nose. Unbuckled, almost threw in the trash can of a full, filled with 300 ml of the 98th, took 10 minutes fiddled with the belt, pulled low nose to the road and drove off.
Zigzag. A strange thing! I've ridden on this very car in summer in Yorkshire, and then she was riding smoothly and straight. But then climbed into the mechanics of running gear. What has changed? Tires? Similarity collapse? Machine griping in the slightest rut, it is not obeying the helm.
Trying to get away, I turned on the tape recorder excellent Mark Levinson and pressed DAB. No catches. And again, it's time to refuel.

Refueled and pierced themselves second lung, I went to a free road. And clicked. Quickly dispersed to a hundred and ten, and I burst eardrum. Because at this speed motor hangs on the 3000 r / min, howling wildly. Desperately need a seventh gear, but it is not.
And still desperately need a bigger trunk. The suitcase has to put behind the seat. That is, the mirror can not see anything. That's why I did not notice crept cops.

"But I do not change our attitude to this machine. I still think it's the best, what I was driving "

After hearing the suggestion, I went again: the radio crackles, the engine howls, the wheels rose up from the snow thrower in a rut like a glove. And I went to their depot. Here will come all the drivers LFA, if the device running pokopaytes man in overalls.
Eventually I got to the pub, which already serves dinner, and went into the tank ...

I can not imagine anything but V8 Ariel or Caterham R500, on the trip to the pub would be a gold thread. At Willow Springs? Yes. At the Serpentine in the mountains around Palm Springs? Please. But from Chipping Norton Kingem-Plough for toast with mushrooms and snails? No. It is better to go for a run. But I did not change the relationship to the machine. I still think that it is - the best of all, what I was driving.
For a few pounds you can buy a poster on the wall above the fireplace. Maybe even very beautiful. But still, you'll be dreaming of a priceless picture "Rain, Steam and Speed​​" Turner.
The picture is old. The paint is chipping. Gives mold, and insurance will be monstrous. But what would you take: her or reprint "Crying Boy"? Hammond and May - "Boy". Do I have a soul. So for me it does not pull.

TEXT: Jeremy Clarkson, PHOTO: Lee Brimble and Justin LAYTON