Confirmed!!! That it is a "world premiere" tells you all you need to know about the biggest open secret in the auto industry right now...LFA is coming to Tokyo...almost certainly in production form!

 

MisterTwo Lexus has called near production vehicles "concepts" before. Actually everyone does it.

Great news. PARTY TIME!!

 

True enough.

 

I hope they do some sort of webcast for the event...

 

 

Same - I'll be up for it, no matter what time it is here in the U.S.!

 

Well, looks like LF A debut and LF-Ch it is!

I hope at the unveiling they have a 'Ring video of the LF A achieving a super-low time, and then when they unveil the car to have it drive onto the stage revving to redline.

 

The Lexus.jp autoshow page is here (nothing there yet but the past Tokyo shows each have a site):

http://lexus.jp/brand/ms/

The Toyota corporate site has a 41st Tokyo Motor Show section, where the Lexus page has the LF-Ch and 'Coming Soon'...

http://www2.toyota.co.jp/future/lexus/index.html

 

I miss the days when Lexus had the press reveal/live video camera on their website. I wonder whatever happened to that...

 

Same here, I think the last one was the LX...

...Lexus Europe though did do a live webcast for the LF-Ch reveal last month.

 

Very mysterious . No product name at all or info, just "coming soon".

 

Race LF A sliding around and doing burnouts !

In such a tight space, you get a sense of what the LF A's balance is like. Production car should have similar balance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhbtdzd2MJo

That engine note is just sinister!

You also get a glimpse in the video of where the door "handles" are. Just as some here on CL predicted, they are recessed in the door under the window and in front of the upper side intake. Likely it was an aerodynamic/performance reason to recess them, and as a bonus it's a stylistic reason too.

 

Watching this car be flung around like that makes you realize what a unique exotic this will be.

It is so taut, tight, and balanced that the car really does move like it is on rails. You can also tell that it has enough power and a low enough weight to easily be thrown around here and there, but always remains in control.

Hard to describe but I haven't seen many other exotics that appear that "light on their feet" and easily controlled at the same time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytjOyB3VwIo

...and that is what the LF A is really all about

 

All that incredible praise from a European journalist ?

Stunning really, the hype continues to build !

If you look VERY closely in the video, you can see a glimpse that the car flying by is all-white, which means it's not the race LF A, but a pre-production LF A. This very likely means the journalist is making his comments after testing a pre-production/near production LF A! It looks like this journalist was part of an exclusive preview drive for the production LF A at the Nurburgring. It looks like the same day that spy video was taken of the production LF A fully uncovered with it's headlights and tails exposed.

I love how he put the LF A in the same sentence as cars like the Pagani Zonda, Carrera GT, and McLaren F1. So much for all these "expert" enthusiasts on internet forums incessantly comparing the LF A to the GT-R, or Ferrari 458 .

I must say, these are great times for Toyota/Lexus enthusiasts right now, and they will only get better! The LF A is a car all Toyota/Lexus enthusiasts can be very proud of. It shows to the world what Toyota is capable of.