Lexus LFA Sports Car

The new The Audi GT3 R8 sports car is a race car that will enter into some of the great races of the world sometime next year.

Power for the Audi GT3 has been boosted to 500hp and the engineers digged deep into the technics to conform with GT3 standards. The four-wheel-drive system had to be replaced with a more conventional GT rear-wheel drive system and it is also equipped with a newly developed six-speed sports sequential gear box.

The Audi GT3 is a super sports car indeed.

Lexus LFA: sales are over - do not get up in the queue!

The company Lexus, it seems, underestimated the magnitude of consumer demand for its new supercar Lexus LFA, which was presented in October last year on home motor show in Tokyo.

Barely three months after the official debut of leadership Lexus announced that all copies intended for the Japanese market, are sold out, so to stand in line for the supercar in the Land of the Rising Sun makes no sense. For local buyers Lexus will release 165 copies of the model LFA, but only on the world market will do 500 units of the Japanese supercar. Reported earlier that the United States to deal with speculators, buy a car with a view to resale, Lexus has decided not to sell, and rent a supercar in the lease for two years. Upon expiration of the lease holder will be entitled to fully redeem Lexus LFA.

Production of super start in December this year. The model will be completed with 4.8-liter gasoline engine V10 power 560 hp, whose torque is 480 Nm. Rear wheel drive car be equipped six-speed transmission ASG. From 0 to 100 km / h faster model for 3,7 seconds, and "maximum speed" is equal to 325 km / hr.

Lexus LFA Not For Sale

Noticed how supercars almost always spend most of their lives parked in some carpark, collecting more dust than mileage. Then there are those limited run supercars that double in price as soon as the first owner receives the keys. We have the speculators to thank for that but now in a bid to foil these exotic car speculators, Lexus has came up with the idea of leasing its forthcoming LFA supercar – not selling it – when it hits the market.

Automotive News is reporting that Lexus will only offer two-year leases of its 552hp supercar at a fixed price which has not yet been disclosed. It is only at the end of the two year period that the leaseholders get the opportunity to actually purchase the car, at which point the title would be handed over. As Lexus’ vice president of sales and dealer development Brian Smith tells it, his company wants “people out driving the car and not just parking it in a museum or selling it at an inflated price.”

New LFA’s may be lease vehicles, but all cars will still be able to be individually tailored to the customers and built-to-order begins in December 2010.

In an effort to gear up for the arrival of the LFA, Lexus will reportedly train 15 LFA specialists that will be located at the company’s four regional outposts. It has also been reported that the Japanese automaker will also pay for dealers to receive the special tools and training that will service the vehicles.

If the leasing method works and effectively brings an end to the speculator’s market, expect other exotic car companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini to follow suit.