LFAwful News: Lexus Not Focusing on New Supercar Anytime Soon

By Tony Markovich - February 24, 2016

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The Lexus LFA is a unicorn. It’s a grail in just about every way possible, and hearing one in person gives you more butterflies than any significant other ever will. That’s why it was so sad when production ended with Lexus’s 500th example back in 2012.

Since then, it’s been a waiting game for any news about a successor. With Lexus pushing to have more of a sporty reputation, with luxury comfort an added benefit rather than vice versa, it only makes sense that a replacement would be in the works, right? Wrong.

“The LFA is an icon now and possibly always – we don’t need to replace it to keep that status,” Lexus Europe boss Alain Uyttenhoven said at an LC 500h launch. “It is a car we can reference for another 25 years if we choose. Its status is assured. But what’s clear is that we can create similar emotion in more attainable cars, and that is our focus now.”

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Twenty-five years! Say what? Are they serious? So what are they going to do for the next two and half decades?

“For the future, who knows? I’m not saying we won’t do another LFA. I just don’t know. But I am certain that we will surprise you in the future with the cars we have planned … What the LFA taught us was that Lexus needs to be selling cars on emotional, not just rational, ideas.”

You’re contradicting yourself, dude. The rational thing is to save all that money on development and research that you’d spend on making a new and better supercar. Be irrational and create a hypercar, dammit! DO YOU NOT FEEL THE EMOTION IN THIS BLOGGER’S TYPED, CAPITALIZED WORDS?!