TF109B

A red one in Japan- silver finish wheels, looks like black calipers, red and black interior from what I can tell. LHD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFaHEQQLp-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tJacLNPpqc

05RollaXRS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1jGB...layer_embedded

LexusMan77

Same silver LFA spotted on freeway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZhnlgz-x8

05RollaXRS

Silver looks amazing in that video.

Why was the spoiler not deployed initially since the freeway cruising speed must be over 50 mph??

TF109B

I saw that last night and wondered the same thing. When he sped up a little, the spoiler came up. I thought it raised at 40-50mph? The speeds were definitely at least that or more.

07grIS350

I believe when the transmission is in auto mode, the spoiler goes up at 80mph.

lkapimp216

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watch this moron scrape the hell out of the bumper on a $400,000 brand new LFA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKaZBiNq8PQ

there are only 499 in existence with clean titles. My condolences to the gentlemens family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KOwQDctOM

05RollaXRS

Both have two things in common. Both are very old and both are prototypes.

The first one was the early video of the US prototype that is pearl grey now and has 12,000 miles on it.

The second one was the first Nurburgring edition prototype that was crashed by LFA's chief testing engineer Hiromu Naruse as he was testing it in Germany. That was all over the news about 8 months ago.

lkapimp216

iTrader: (2)

Sorry about that, I don t really keep up on the LFA, or this forum. I saw the videos on you tube, and looked through this whole thread to make sure I wasn t reposting anything. Thanks for the clarification bro!

Joe Z

iTrader: (10)

Here are a nice Video of an INSIDE cockpit look at a FULL Lap around the Nurburgring.

The video is from August 2010

The Lap is from 2nd Qualify Session on May 14th, 2010, with the Gazoo Racing LFA

Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XBAtH8mCIo

Joe Z

TF109B

new vid around palm beach track-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOXjSF3NRI

the vbox is off by about 5-7mph-he says 153mph on the straight, vbox read 147max.

rominl

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didn't i say before that the vbox might not be entirely correct?

TF109B

It's probably pulling more G's as well. I do remember you saying it was off. If it's similar to this case the LFA could be achieving better speeds than what the videos let off. I wouldn't be surprised. It doesn't even look like he's pushing the LFA to the limit, maybe 90%, but I still think it has some give in it.

05RollaXRS

I would tend to believe it is the LFA speedometer that reads optimistically, which falls in line with just about every other car where manufacturers built a safety net at high speeds.

Video vbox receives all the speed information from satellite so it is probably more accurate than LFA's speedo. If VBOX reads speed inaccurately, it defeats the whole purpose of their business model.

gengar

I also agree that satellite telemetry should be more accurate. GPS itself is not very accurate (at least not consumer-level GPS) but scientifically it makes sense that the difference in positions when taken sequentially can be accurate despsite any positional lack of accuracy, and this is what makes the telemetry accurate.

The other (and bigger reason) is that car manufacturers consistently understate speed at the speedometer. Using various satellite-based telemetry recorders I've found Japanese cars tend to be about 1-2mph at the speedo at highway speeds, including my IS F. German cars are notorious for overstating speed; I've read this is due to EU regulations that penalize for inaccurate understating (but not overstating) of speed resulting in many European manufacturers making sure they have a wide buffer on the over. My friend found his 335i to be a shocking 3-4mph overstated at highway speeds, i.e., his speedo would read 63-64 when in fact only going 60. Many of the users at some of our neighbor BMW forums complain about this a lot.