Tag: John Coyle

Go small or go home—that’s the attitude Lexus is taking for Geneva. After months of speculation about exactly what concept the brand would be bringing to the crowd jewel of the European auto show circuit, we now know.

The LFA is—by all accounts—a phenomenal car. Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson famously even called it the best car he’d ever driven. But when the V10 supercar completed its two-year run in 2012, it left no clear heir. And we should feel lucky it happened at all.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the two coupes compared—but that doesn’t make this clip any less entertaining. Compared to the Lexus, the BMW looks like a real handful, as it seem like it spends half its time on screen pitched completely sideways.

Breaking news, it’s not. But the lads at Car Throttle have just posted a new video starring the RC F, and it features a nice respectable burnout, plenty of 5.0L V8 engine noise, a brief cameo by a certain V10 supercar, and lots of glamour shots of the new Lexus sports coupe. It’s worth watching.

Shooting cars at an auto show is always tricky. Between all the people wandering through the frame, the terrible lighting and terrible time constraints it’s generally a nightmare. Getting these shots was a soft-lit dream.

The remote-controlled RC F might be a tiny—but the car control demonstrated in the “Play Time” video LexusVehicles released yesterday is immense. Where does the operator even stand to get the perspective needed to judge these microscopic tolerances? I think it’s time for a behind-the-scenes video, not to mention a GoPro.

Here’s something that shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone: LF-LC GT “Vision Gran Turismo” looks bonkers awesome. It’ll hit the virtual tarmac in Gran Turismo 6 this spring as part of a free update. Until then, you’ll just have to tide yourselves over with these killer pics.