30 October 2009 - 11:00
Video: dream weaver
Prepare to have your mind lightly boggled. You're about to watch a video of Toyota's rotary weaver creating the A-pillar for the Lexus LFA.
If this sounds incredibly boring, it isn't.
While most CF components are created using pre-weaved sheets of carbon fibre, Toyota owns one of just two rotary weavers in existence, a device capable of literally knitting incredibly complex shapes out of the black stuff.
It goes some way - though probably not all the way - to explaining the LFA's $700,000 price tag.
Maybe it'll... ah, hell, just watch the video. It's amazing.
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yeah when you look closely. those ducts behind the windows look very ferrari f430 to me!
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blackdog commented on this article
02 November 2009
Amazing-but does anyone else think the LFA looks to much like a GTR!!
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