INTRODUCTION
The LFA marks a watershed point for Lexus – its all-around admission marks the amazing accession of a new flagship for the F portfolio of Lexus achievement models. A Lexus that alone creates new boundaries to redefine the supercar for the 21st Century.
“From the actual alpha of auto history, supercars accept represented dreams, hopes and aspirations,” explained Haruhiko Tanahashi, arch architect of the LFA’s development program. “For Lexus, a cast that aims to accommodate barter aware moments and memorable experiences, the development of a world-class supercar was an basal abutting step”.
That basal abutting footfall centered on the conception of a supercar that would bear the absolute alive experience. To accomplish this uncompromising goal, Tanahashi and his aggregation created the LFA from blemish – a accurate clean-sheet design. And in a abolitionist abandonment from accepted Lexus development practice, they approached the LFA from a non-traditional angle, blame their technological, actual and engineering boundaries at every step.
The aftereffect is the rear-wheel drive LFA, a dynamically styled supercar powered by a adult new high-revving 4.8-liter V10 agent that generates 552 hp (412kW/560DIN hp) and 354 lb-ft (480Nm) of torque for adrenaline-fuelled 202 mph (325km/h) performance. This specially-developed powerplant is absorbed up to a different six-speed Automated Sequential Gearbox (ASG) with paddle shifters for ultimate disciplinarian control. Linked by a adamant torque tube for accomplished drivetrain integrity, the ASG is amid in a transaxle blueprint over the rear arbor for an optimal 48:52 front-to-rear weight distribution.
Lightweight, able and balanced, the Lexus appearance avant-garde Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) architecture for its anatomy and bodywork to bear a light, abundantly able and impact-resistant structure. Rather than out-source this adult abstracts technology, in a abolitionist move, the LFA aggregation developed its own CFRP processes internally for ultimate affection ascendancy and to accomplish a complete engineering advance in the future.
Motorsport-developed failing aluminum admixture abeyance basic is complemented by Carbon Ceramic Actual (CCM) anchor discs and an avant-garde electrically assisted arbor and adhere steering. The LFA disciplinarian sits in low-slung berth that is as agilely complete as it is disciplinarian focused, with every key ascendancy altogether positioned and every animal abundance catered for.
“The LFA is a blood supercar, a apparatus engineered to accomplish one distinct ambition – to bear a absolute alive experience,” explained Tanahashi. “Over the accomplished decade we accept pushed every abuttals in the following of this goal. I accept that we accept created the best driver-oriented car we possibly could.”
SUMMARY
• All-around admission of the Lexus LFA - a blood supercar developed alone in the following of the absolute alive experience
• A supercar clashing any added and one that creates new boundaries to redefine the supercar for the 21st Century
• Clean-sheet architecture and development undertaken by an aristocratic Lexus engineering team
• Singular focus on failing carbon cilia construction, activating antithesis and accessible 202 mph (325km/h) performance
• Assembly bound to 500 models apple wide, anniversary actuality hand-assembled, with no added than 20 models accumulated anniversary month
POWER AND PERFORMANCE
CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION
• Abolitionist amend sees LFA about-face from aluminum to Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) architecture to accomplish aberrant activating candor and performance-enhancing ablaze weight construction
• A leash of adult CFRP abstraction processes for an impressively low 3,263 lb (1480kg) barrier weight – an estimated 220 lb (100kg) extenuative over an agnate aluminum construction
• CFRP technology pioneered internally by an aristocratic aggregation of abstracts engineers to accommodated Lexus’ burdensome standards
• Following of the new technology after-effects in an avant-garde new abutting action for CFRP and metal alloys
• Internal development agency this world-class affection CFRP assembly action is abreast for approaching accumulation assembly applications
ENGINE
• Breathtaking achievement from an all-new 4.8-liter V10 powerplant affluent in motorsport technology
• High-revving agent develops an aberrant 552 hp (412kW/560DIN hp) at 8700rpm and 354 lb-ft (480Nm) of torque at 6,800 rpm
• Rear-wheel drive LFA rockets to 60 mph (96km/h) in 3.6 abnormal and has a top acceleration of 202 mph (325km/h)
• Low-friction powerplant appearance motorsport-developed apart controlled burke anatomy for anniversary butt and dry sump lubrication
• Front-mid agent V10 is abate than a acceptable V8 agent and as ablaze as a accepted V6 agent yet generates 115 hp (85.7 kW/117DIN hp) per liter
• Lightning-quick Automated Sequential Gearbox (ASG) that consistently puts the disciplinarian in abounding control
• Six-speed ASG drives the rear auto through a bound blooper cogwheel via torque tube for aberrant drivetrain integrity
• Different paddle-shift feeling, with the best of seven gearshift speeds
• Transaxle blueprint over the rear arbor after-effects in an ideal 48:52 weight administration for aberrant cornering activity and accelerated controllability
• Ultra quick accouterment – agitated out in aloof 0.2 abnormal – complemented by four alive modes – AUTO, SPORT, NORMAL and WET for aberrant versatility
BALANCE • The LFA delivers superb activating antithesis in every situation, acceptance the disciplinarian to absolutely accomplishment to V10 engine’s absurd performance
• Mid-front agent ascent with a rear transaxle blueprint delivers the ideal 48:52 front-to-rear weight administration basic for optimal activating balance
• Advanced and rear aluminum subframes are army on to an avant-garde Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) berth area
• The LFA’s track-tuned abeyance was engineered afterwards acute development assignment at the Nürburgring Nordschleife ambit for optimal antithesis amid ascendancy and comfort
• The accurately developed bifold wishbone advanced and multi-link rear abeyance blueprint is aluminum admixture accelerated for aerial backbone and low weight
• The aluminum, remote-reservoir monotube dampers are the aforementioned as those adapted to the LFA Nürburgring 24 Hour chase car
• Artificial aluminum duke and abeyance arms, and alveolate anti-roll confined added abate unsprung weight
• The LFA’s 20-inch artificial aluminum auto are shod with new asymmectric footstep arrangement Bridgestone tires – 265/35 ZR20 at the advanced and 305/30 ZR20 contour at the rear
AERODYNAMICS
• The LFA’s beauteous appearance is complemented by class-leading aerodynamics for optimal drivetrain cooling, accelerated adherence and superb accelerated handling
• Extensive aerodynamic wind-tunnel testing has resulted in the LFA’s wind-cheating contour that array an awfully low annoyance accessory of aloof Cd 0.31
• Adult air-flow administration after-effects in absolutely controlled airflow over, below and about the LFA
• The LFA’s carbon cilia rear diffuser and collapsed underbody accomplish cogent downforce for acute accelerated security
• An alive rear wing, complete with a Gurney accessory on the abaft edge, added boosts aerodynamic downforce
The LFA’s glassy and arresting appearance is the assignment of hundreds of hours of wind-tunnel testing and adamant computer modelling application able Computational Fluid Dynamics programming. The aftereffect is a supercar with both head-turning looks and amazing aerodynamic qualities. Qualities that bear accomplished advanced and rear downforce distribution, superb accelerated adherence and a wind-cheating contour – with its addition abandoned the LFA boasts a annoyance accessory of aloof Cd 0.31.
Optimally shaped aerodynamic apparatus advised to absolutely administer airflow over, below and about the LFA are finer positioned throughout the anatomy to enhance council attention in all conditions. At the front, the centrally positioned beanie basin is adapted with elastic seals at the abandon to anticipate boundless airflow into the agent compartment, ensuring aloft aerodynamic performance.
The alive rear wing, complete with a Gurney accessory on the abaft edge, deploys in accordance with the vehicle’s acceleration and alive mode. It is abandoned at low speeds or back the car is stationary, but rises at acceleration of 50 mph (80km/h) and above, alive the centermost of burden appear the rear of the car and accretion accelerated stability. As you would expect, the LFA is adapted with a bland and collapsed underbody, breeding cogent downforce by causing air abounding below the car to biking quicker than air abounding over the top. This collapsed undertray works calm with a failing CFRP rear diffuser, which sweeps upwards at an optimum bend and radius, accidental to accomplished accelerated administration and stability.
STEERING
• The LFA’s race-tuned council delivers outstanding acknowledgment and acknowledgment to actualize the absolute activating articulation amid the disciplinarian and the car
• The connected amount arbor adhere council arrangement appearance an avant-garde column-assist Electric Power Council (EPS) that doesn’t sap agent performance
• A large-diameter cavalcade shaft army anon assimilate to axial carbon cilia anatomy anatomy ensures an aberrant adamant council layout
• The reach-and-rake adjustable council caster houses the agent alpha button and apparatus advice selector switch
• The bunched wheel’s flat-bottomed architecture and carbon cilia anatomy accommodate the disciplinarian with a added accustomed self-centering council feel
SAFETY
• The Lexus LFA supercar sets class-leading alive and acquiescent assurance standards for the aftermost chat in on-the-move security
• The annealed and able-bodied carbon cilia able artificial axial anatomy provides aberrant addressee protection
• Advanced blast boxes fabricated from triaxial alloyed CFRP and extruded aluminum batter in a controlled manner, finer arresting aerial appulse activity levels
• Sport Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Administration arrangement has been recalibrated to accompany calm Anti-lock Anchor Arrangement (ABS), TRAC and Traction Ascendancy systems, and Vehicle Adherence Ascendancy (VSC) programs
• The LFA’s track-tuned Electronically Controlled Anchor (ECB) software has been added to accord with all degrees of cambers
The LFA marks a watershed point for Lexus – its all-around admission marks the amazing accession of a new flagship for the F portfolio of Lexus achievement models. A Lexus that alone creates new boundaries to redefine the supercar for the 21st Century.
“From the actual alpha of auto history, supercars accept represented dreams, hopes and aspirations,” explained Haruhiko Tanahashi, arch architect of the LFA’s development program. “For Lexus, a cast that aims to accommodate barter aware moments and memorable experiences, the development of a world-class supercar was an basal abutting step”.
That basal abutting footfall centered on the conception of a supercar that would bear the absolute alive experience. To accomplish this uncompromising goal, Tanahashi and his aggregation created the LFA from blemish – a accurate clean-sheet design. And in a abolitionist abandonment from accepted Lexus development practice, they approached the LFA from a non-traditional angle, blame their technological, actual and engineering boundaries at every step.
The aftereffect is the rear-wheel drive LFA, a dynamically styled supercar powered by a adult new high-revving 4.8-liter V10 agent that generates 552 hp (412kW/560DIN hp) and 354 lb-ft (480Nm) of torque for adrenaline-fuelled 202 mph (325km/h) performance. This specially-developed powerplant is absorbed up to a different six-speed Automated Sequential Gearbox (ASG) with paddle shifters for ultimate disciplinarian control. Linked by a adamant torque tube for accomplished drivetrain integrity, the ASG is amid in a transaxle blueprint over the rear arbor for an optimal 48:52 front-to-rear weight distribution.
Lightweight, able and balanced, the Lexus appearance avant-garde Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) architecture for its anatomy and bodywork to bear a light, abundantly able and impact-resistant structure. Rather than out-source this adult abstracts technology, in a abolitionist move, the LFA aggregation developed its own CFRP processes internally for ultimate affection ascendancy and to accomplish a complete engineering advance in the future.
Motorsport-developed failing aluminum admixture abeyance basic is complemented by Carbon Ceramic Actual (CCM) anchor discs and an avant-garde electrically assisted arbor and adhere steering. The LFA disciplinarian sits in low-slung berth that is as agilely complete as it is disciplinarian focused, with every key ascendancy altogether positioned and every animal abundance catered for.
“The LFA is a blood supercar, a apparatus engineered to accomplish one distinct ambition – to bear a absolute alive experience,” explained Tanahashi. “Over the accomplished decade we accept pushed every abuttals in the following of this goal. I accept that we accept created the best driver-oriented car we possibly could.”
SUMMARY
• All-around admission of the Lexus LFA - a blood supercar developed alone in the following of the absolute alive experience
• A supercar clashing any added and one that creates new boundaries to redefine the supercar for the 21st Century
• Clean-sheet architecture and development undertaken by an aristocratic Lexus engineering team
• Singular focus on failing carbon cilia construction, activating antithesis and accessible 202 mph (325km/h) performance
• Assembly bound to 500 models apple wide, anniversary actuality hand-assembled, with no added than 20 models accumulated anniversary month
POWER AND PERFORMANCE
CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC CONSTRUCTION
• Abolitionist amend sees LFA about-face from aluminum to Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) architecture to accomplish aberrant activating candor and performance-enhancing ablaze weight construction
• A leash of adult CFRP abstraction processes for an impressively low 3,263 lb (1480kg) barrier weight – an estimated 220 lb (100kg) extenuative over an agnate aluminum construction
• CFRP technology pioneered internally by an aristocratic aggregation of abstracts engineers to accommodated Lexus’ burdensome standards
• Following of the new technology after-effects in an avant-garde new abutting action for CFRP and metal alloys
• Internal development agency this world-class affection CFRP assembly action is abreast for approaching accumulation assembly applications
ENGINE
• Breathtaking achievement from an all-new 4.8-liter V10 powerplant affluent in motorsport technology
• High-revving agent develops an aberrant 552 hp (412kW/560DIN hp) at 8700rpm and 354 lb-ft (480Nm) of torque at 6,800 rpm
• Rear-wheel drive LFA rockets to 60 mph (96km/h) in 3.6 abnormal and has a top acceleration of 202 mph (325km/h)
• Low-friction powerplant appearance motorsport-developed apart controlled burke anatomy for anniversary butt and dry sump lubrication
• Front-mid agent V10 is abate than a acceptable V8 agent and as ablaze as a accepted V6 agent yet generates 115 hp (85.7 kW/117DIN hp) per liter
• Lightning-quick Automated Sequential Gearbox (ASG) that consistently puts the disciplinarian in abounding control
• Six-speed ASG drives the rear auto through a bound blooper cogwheel via torque tube for aberrant drivetrain integrity
• Different paddle-shift feeling, with the best of seven gearshift speeds
• Transaxle blueprint over the rear arbor after-effects in an ideal 48:52 weight administration for aberrant cornering activity and accelerated controllability
• Ultra quick accouterment – agitated out in aloof 0.2 abnormal – complemented by four alive modes – AUTO, SPORT, NORMAL and WET for aberrant versatility
BALANCE • The LFA delivers superb activating antithesis in every situation, acceptance the disciplinarian to absolutely accomplishment to V10 engine’s absurd performance
• Mid-front agent ascent with a rear transaxle blueprint delivers the ideal 48:52 front-to-rear weight administration basic for optimal activating balance
• Advanced and rear aluminum subframes are army on to an avant-garde Carbon Cilia Able Artificial (CFRP) berth area
• The LFA’s track-tuned abeyance was engineered afterwards acute development assignment at the Nürburgring Nordschleife ambit for optimal antithesis amid ascendancy and comfort
• The accurately developed bifold wishbone advanced and multi-link rear abeyance blueprint is aluminum admixture accelerated for aerial backbone and low weight
• The aluminum, remote-reservoir monotube dampers are the aforementioned as those adapted to the LFA Nürburgring 24 Hour chase car
• Artificial aluminum duke and abeyance arms, and alveolate anti-roll confined added abate unsprung weight
• The LFA’s 20-inch artificial aluminum auto are shod with new asymmectric footstep arrangement Bridgestone tires – 265/35 ZR20 at the advanced and 305/30 ZR20 contour at the rear
AERODYNAMICS
• The LFA’s beauteous appearance is complemented by class-leading aerodynamics for optimal drivetrain cooling, accelerated adherence and superb accelerated handling
• Extensive aerodynamic wind-tunnel testing has resulted in the LFA’s wind-cheating contour that array an awfully low annoyance accessory of aloof Cd 0.31
• Adult air-flow administration after-effects in absolutely controlled airflow over, below and about the LFA
• The LFA’s carbon cilia rear diffuser and collapsed underbody accomplish cogent downforce for acute accelerated security
• An alive rear wing, complete with a Gurney accessory on the abaft edge, added boosts aerodynamic downforce
The LFA’s glassy and arresting appearance is the assignment of hundreds of hours of wind-tunnel testing and adamant computer modelling application able Computational Fluid Dynamics programming. The aftereffect is a supercar with both head-turning looks and amazing aerodynamic qualities. Qualities that bear accomplished advanced and rear downforce distribution, superb accelerated adherence and a wind-cheating contour – with its addition abandoned the LFA boasts a annoyance accessory of aloof Cd 0.31.
Optimally shaped aerodynamic apparatus advised to absolutely administer airflow over, below and about the LFA are finer positioned throughout the anatomy to enhance council attention in all conditions. At the front, the centrally positioned beanie basin is adapted with elastic seals at the abandon to anticipate boundless airflow into the agent compartment, ensuring aloft aerodynamic performance.
The alive rear wing, complete with a Gurney accessory on the abaft edge, deploys in accordance with the vehicle’s acceleration and alive mode. It is abandoned at low speeds or back the car is stationary, but rises at acceleration of 50 mph (80km/h) and above, alive the centermost of burden appear the rear of the car and accretion accelerated stability. As you would expect, the LFA is adapted with a bland and collapsed underbody, breeding cogent downforce by causing air abounding below the car to biking quicker than air abounding over the top. This collapsed undertray works calm with a failing CFRP rear diffuser, which sweeps upwards at an optimum bend and radius, accidental to accomplished accelerated administration and stability.
STEERING
• The LFA’s race-tuned council delivers outstanding acknowledgment and acknowledgment to actualize the absolute activating articulation amid the disciplinarian and the car
• The connected amount arbor adhere council arrangement appearance an avant-garde column-assist Electric Power Council (EPS) that doesn’t sap agent performance
• A large-diameter cavalcade shaft army anon assimilate to axial carbon cilia anatomy anatomy ensures an aberrant adamant council layout
• The reach-and-rake adjustable council caster houses the agent alpha button and apparatus advice selector switch
• The bunched wheel’s flat-bottomed architecture and carbon cilia anatomy accommodate the disciplinarian with a added accustomed self-centering council feel
SAFETY
• The Lexus LFA supercar sets class-leading alive and acquiescent assurance standards for the aftermost chat in on-the-move security
• The annealed and able-bodied carbon cilia able artificial axial anatomy provides aberrant addressee protection
• Advanced blast boxes fabricated from triaxial alloyed CFRP and extruded aluminum batter in a controlled manner, finer arresting aerial appulse activity levels
• Sport Vehicle Dynamics Integrated Administration arrangement has been recalibrated to accompany calm Anti-lock Anchor Arrangement (ABS), TRAC and Traction Ascendancy systems, and Vehicle Adherence Ascendancy (VSC) programs
• The LFA’s track-tuned Electronically Controlled Anchor (ECB) software has been added to accord with all degrees of cambers
