Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 10:43 am, by: Callum Finch(Sigeneat)
I have one of those desk calendars where you tear a page off and throw it away... all about (American) cars!
This morning, I pulled off yesterday's sheet to reveal todays.. 2005 Lexus LF-A Concept
Its a Lexus, yes, and its not even a Soarer.. however in my opinion it invisages everything the Soarer (not that crappy sc430 =\ ) is about... Looks great, long, sleek design, quite a thump of power under the bonnet and so on.
Officials say to expect over 500hp under the bonnet and a top speed of a little over 200mph from an n/a engine less than 5.0L. Ambitious... supercar ambitious!
Lexus and Toyota representatives have touted it as only an indication on where Lexus is heading with things so its likely that it wont hit the stores. Whatever offspring it provides though, im glad to see Lexus/Toyota have their heads in the right place!
Fingers crossed a twin pops out of a production plant!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 06:49 pm, by: Shane Ilich(Ferret)
Robert Hayden wrote on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 05:41 pm:
Lexus Officials on the stand whom I know personally confirmed that Lexus will build this car within three years.
i JUST remembered then, Robert - I was at the perth motor show last year, checking out the lexus stand, particualrly the sc430, and one of the representatives came up and asked me if i would like to sit in it...we started chatting, came out that i had a soarer...and next thing she's asking me if i know about the forums, cos she knows you really well, and her husband used to work with you or something!
lovely lady, she gave me a really good look at the sc430. totally forgotten about that til you mentioned knowing the officials...
Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 07:33 pm, by: Taylor Sabo(Taylor)
whats the problem with the sc-430? my old mans got one, as far as i can see there arent any problems, and its still looks good, although still prefer the sc-400 look.
Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 01:52 am, by: Shane Ilich(Ferret)
Robert Hayden wrote on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 11:11 pm:
Yeah Shane, that's my mate Monique. Husband Mark is top salesperson for Lexus Australia 2nd year running.
Very knowledgable woman that one, gorgeous too.
yeah, thats her. i was being very careful about how i mentioned her, cos i didnt know how well you knew her etc....but now that you mention it, she is a stunning lady. you're dead on the money with "knowledgable", too...most of the other sales girls at the other stalls were there purely for aesthetic purposes, whereas she was full bottle on the sc430, and a few of the other models, knew all the specs, blew my gf away with how much she knew
i like the sounds of the direction lexus is wanting to take...it can only mean positives for all of their models...lets just hope they forget to go to "world supercar" extreme on one thing - the price!
PS whenever i see that first interior pic of the LF-A i posted, it just screams "soarer" to me - you can clearly see its origins.
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