Lexus making new supercar?
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Saw this and thought others might find interesting....
http://www.torquenews.com/1084/are-p...supercar-works
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All speculation at this point. Every car manufacture has some kind of high performance car in the works.
I used to be a vendor for Calty Design Research based in Newport Beach, CA, and they're one of the design houses for Toyota (the CT200 came from there). I've seen SO MANY renderings and clay models and stuff of so many cars, it's all speculation. I've seen a few Toyota "Supra" cars as well...will they make it, who knows.
The CT200, I saw something similar to that car over 5 years ago...they refined it, changed this and that, then here it is....
I think if Lexus wants to make a big appeal...they need to do with Nissan did and build a Godzilla of their own in the same price range...that will get people talking and buying. Imagine if you have a Ferrari F430 or a Lambo Gallardo...and a GT-R pulls up to you...you'd be afraid of what he's got under the hood!
I used to be a vendor for Calty Design Research based in Newport Beach, CA, and they're one of the design houses for Toyota (the CT200 came from there). I've seen SO MANY renderings and clay models and stuff of so many cars, it's all speculation. I've seen a few Toyota "Supra" cars as well...will they make it, who knows.
The CT200, I saw something similar to that car over 5 years ago...they refined it, changed this and that, then here it is....
I think if Lexus wants to make a big appeal...they need to do with Nissan did and build a Godzilla of their own in the same price range...that will get people talking and buying. Imagine if you have a Ferrari F430 or a Lambo Gallardo...and a GT-R pulls up to you...you'd be afraid of what he's got under the hood!
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All speculation at this point. Every car manufacture has some kind of high performance car in the works.
I used to be a vendor for Calty Design Research based in Newport Beach, CA, and they're one of the design houses for Toyota (the CT200 came from there). I've seen SO MANY renderings and clay models and stuff of so many cars, it's all speculation. I've seen a few Toyota "Supra" cars as well...will they make it, who knows.
The CT200, I saw something similar to that car over 5 years ago...they refined it, changed this and that, then here it is....
I think if Lexus wants to make a big appeal...they need to do with Nissan did and build a Godzilla of their own in the same price range...that will get people talking and buying. Imagine if you have a Ferrari F430 or a Lambo Gallardo...and a GT-R pulls up to you...you'd be afraid of what he's got under the hood!
I used to be a vendor for Calty Design Research based in Newport Beach, CA, and they're one of the design houses for Toyota (the CT200 came from there). I've seen SO MANY renderings and clay models and stuff of so many cars, it's all speculation. I've seen a few Toyota "Supra" cars as well...will they make it, who knows.
The CT200, I saw something similar to that car over 5 years ago...they refined it, changed this and that, then here it is....
I think if Lexus wants to make a big appeal...they need to do with Nissan did and build a Godzilla of their own in the same price range...that will get people talking and buying. Imagine if you have a Ferrari F430 or a Lambo Gallardo...and a GT-R pulls up to you...you'd be afraid of what he's got under the hood!
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I don't know about a supercar but this weekend I got my car serviced at Lexus of Route 10 (Thanks Marc!) and they had a framed article explaining the possible release of the LF-LC in 2014 at the earliest. Rumor has it that the price is somewhere in the vicinity of the GTR.......then again it's all speculation. They are following the fad (that I believe Tesla and Fisker started) of building a 400+ HP hybrid in the LF-LC.
I wish I had the article on the wall as a PDF...
I wish I had the article on the wall as a PDF...
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If they made a gtr powered /priced car it would be good but Toyota would lock the ecu.
I think they should make a alloy lfa call it a supra slap a 450 bhp isf engine make her below 1400 kg it would be a great car worth 70-80 k
I think they should make a alloy lfa call it a supra slap a 450 bhp isf engine make her below 1400 kg it would be a great car worth 70-80 k
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No need to follow Nissan. They should have marketed the GT-R as an Infiniti to begin with so they would have something of a halo car right now. An $80k supra makes no sense. The next supra should be in the $30-40k range.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
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No need to follow Nissan. They should have marketed the GT-R as an Infiniti to begin with so they would have something of a halo car right now. An $80k supra makes no sense. The next supra should be in the $30-40k range.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
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The GT-R is an anomaly. Rare best, amazing performance, amazing price. Its going to be very hard to match that so why try to have your "Lexus" match a "Nissan"?
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It has always been Supra/NSX/GT-R fighting in the past so Toyota needs to make a Supra to fight the GT-R.
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What I'm wondering about the LFA halo effect is when that cool LCD instrument panel will filter down to other Lexus models. I know the LS already has a TFT display, but not a full one like the LFA. Maybe in the next LS or the GS-F? Or how about those transparent OLEDs making it into the production LF-LC?
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No need to follow Nissan. They should have marketed the GT-R as an Infiniti to begin with so they would have something of a halo car right now. An $80k supra makes no sense. The next supra should be in the $30-40k range.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
Lexus just needs to bring back a proper 2 door, 2+2, GT again. Beautiful, luxurious, fast.
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