22 October 2009 - 11:00
LFA configurator: surprisingly cheap
After the delays and the grainy videos, Lexus’s 500bhp V10 supercar has finally taken centre stage in Tokyo, and now here’s your chance to virtually destroy your very own LFA as the online configurator hits the web.
You know we like a good configurator at TopGear.com, and this… well, it’s not really a very good configurator. Not because of the appalling colour choices – Pearl Brown, Fresh Green or Passionate Pink, anyone? – because we rather approve of appalling colour choices.
No, our problem with the LFA configumatron is that it’s all bit… budget, isn’t it? Which isn’t exactly what you’d expect from a £330,000 supercar.
In fact, we’d expect the configurator for a £330,000 supercar to offer us a complimentary espresso, polish our brogues and applaud us on how dapper we’re looking. The LFA configurator does none of these things.
Still, it does allow you to devise a most hideous multi-tone interior. If you’re stuggling to make your LFA’s cabin suitably retch-inducing, we’d recommend kicking off with a red headliner matched to a violet centre console. Mmm, violently clashing…
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It look a bit Done in 60 seconds, doesn't it?
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That´s a good move from Toyota to boost their boring image. All of their cars are well working, flawless tools like a washing machine. Are you passionate about them as a car enthusiast? Nope. This one is an emotional product, a technology show case, a limited edition race car - to learn new technologies like producing carbon fiber shells in-house for the first time and that they are capable of producing a thoroughbred, which it really is. They loose money on selling them. But we will find parts of those solutions in future Toyota´s. This project is in progress already since years, so its coming to market at a weird time. And they will make a gtr rival for the "massmarket" based on the experience the gathered with this one. Good point tohafat.
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I don`t like it. Looks unfinished
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did they change the design?
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Steel Blue for me, thank you. Cheaper the car better the configurator. This is one of the worst ones I've come across. The interior is quite smooth but the exterior is a bit rough. On the other hand the best one I've used is the Fiat 500 configurator.
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That is a very ugly car. Looks like a modified Supra, certainly not worth a third of a million pounds.
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That is a very ugly car. Looks like a modified Supra, certainly not worth a third of a million pounds.
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I would much rather have a 458 than that. In my opinion, overpriced,Japanese nonsense.
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i'd rather have a lp670-4 sv.
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The colours are really bad, give me any other supercar and other day by the way, a LEXUS supercar? Come on
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With all the wacky colours, does anyone get the feeling Toyota/Lexus are trying to re-create the '70's muscle cars? Dodge Charger in Plum Crazy, anyone?
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Am I the only person who rrreeeeeaallllyyyy wants this car?? The rear end is wall-poster aggressive, the interior looks really cool and interesting, and it sounds absolutely phenomenal! And hats off to them for sticking a huge "L" badge on the bonnet, when they know that badge-snobs will be put off. And I love that it's offered in pink and peppermint green and poo brown - it's all about having a laugh and driving, which is what sportscars should be about. So Ferrari can keep their poser 458 and its 100 shades of red - this is what supercars are meant to be about!
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I like the way TG think that car could be made even uglier :)
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It does looks like a mod-supra from the front, and the air-intake at the back its just weird. nothing wrong with a lexus supercar...but its just ugly!!!!
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meh... i honestly thought this car was going to be much better.. but once Toyota released the sticker price, performance numbers, and that only 500 will be sold to selected customers. it became obvious that this car became nothing more then a way to bring attention and prestige to Lexus so people will think of them to offer quality and performance as the Germans or Italians. It was supposed to be a car that crushes the GT-R, ZR-1 and all of the worlds supercars for a cheaper price, and it was originally supposed to be a Hybrid, and dominate the R8 as a daily driver, sort of like a GT-R but two steps up. but the car is a complete FLOP, it cost over 100k MORE then cars that are faster and better looking.. that's why their only making 500 to be sold to people who will agree to say nothing but good things about it.. and im sure it's a decent car.. but it's sure as hell isn't competitive.
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i think toyota should use the tech they get from building this car to possibly making a modern supra
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I'm starting to think that the people who post on here only drive cars in videogames. Tohafat, Vinnx and Ben27 in particular. Ever driven a Lexus or any of its competition? It's not all about horsepower, even though the LF-A has 550 from a 4.8L 9000rpm V10 and that's quite a lot for such a light car. It's about the total package when you buy a Lexus. Everything is well thought out, and functions perfectly. The attention to detail in all of the Lexus's we've owned has been amazing. Not giving Toyota, a brand that's been around longer than popular supercar makers, credit obviously comes from an overall ignorance about cars and a lack of time in the driver's seat.
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i have mine. seat front: BLACK seat back: RED stitching: RED steering wheel: BLUE carpet: RED headliner: BLACK metal trim: SILVER instrument panel/door trim/centre console: BLUE body colour: BLACK brake calipers: RED wheels: OPTION 3. What does yours look like?
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i have mine. seat front: BLACK seat back: RED stitching: RED steering wheel: BLUE carpet: RED headliner: BLACK metal trim: SILVER instrument panel/door trim/centre console: BLUE body colour: BLACK brake calipers: RED wheels: OPTION 3. What does yours look like?
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dont know why that came up twice.
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file:///C:/Users/Zach/Pictures/lexuslfa.jpg this is a sweet car
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And another thing tohafat, WHY should they make a GT-R rival instead of a Ferrari rival? You said "just making a point" but had nothing to back that "point" up. I'd like to know why people say things like that with no facts to back them. "Oh Lexus shouldn't make a supercar." Same mentality that people had when they came out with the original LS? Yeah, Lexus has been a real flop of a company hasn't it? They didn't compete with or do better than the German luxury carmakers at all... Oh wait, they DID! So why not a supercar?
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@invisiblepigeon i've never said the LF-A was a bad car.. in fact i said at the end of my post it's probably decent. and no i havent driven any of these super cars, but how many people really have? i was just simply stating that the car is competing with cars that are a 100k cheaper then it. and i doubt you've sat in either the 458 or LF-A since neither are out yet, so how can you say that the fit and finish and overall quality is worth a hundred thousand dollars more, then the 458, lmbo, aston martin, and mercedes, which i believe is all the LF-A has to separate it from its competition.. because so far on paper it's not offering anything extra in performance.. which is what i believe supercars are all about right? anyways, congratulations, your someone Lexus will probably agree to sell and LF-A to.
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Did TG take a picture of the LFA engine bay yet?
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Damnit, I've fallen in love with a Lexus? I'm dissapointed in myself, but I think it's an absolutely brilliant looking vehicle, love the exhaust pipes, and the rear of the car in general, and the interior is wonderful. So yes, the configurator wasn't the best, but, I got a look at what I'd like the car to look like, so I'm more or less satisfied.
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It looks brilliant and daring with a simple but top shelf inviting cabin.. good on Toyota/Lexus.
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Just because it doesn't have more horsepower than the similarly priced competition doesn't mean it's not worth $375,000. A Veyron costs almost ten times more than an SL65 but it's not ten times more powerful. Is it worth it? I say yes, especially considering they lose millions for each one sold! The LF-A is revolutionary for Toyota and Japan in general. Since there are only going to be 500, they're hand made, the carbon fiber bodywork was made in house, it's been in development for 9 years(which hopefully means it'll work flawlessly like all Japanese made Lexus's tend to) and it's the FIRST EVER Toyota/Lexus supercar, a huge price tag is expected. If the quality of their $35,000-130,000 cars are an indication, this car should be a very good value at $375,000. I love Ferrari, but to bash this car simply because of the apparent preconception that "only Europeans can design supercars and charge a lot of money for them" is typical, but doesn't change the reality of the car.
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If Glock or Kobayashi win a GP 1st place.... they get a free LFA?!
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Red, black wheels and your all right.
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@invisible pigeon.. did you even read my posts? i've never even mention horsepower once so why are you bringing it up? i said PERFORMANCE, which is not only horsepower, but everything! you may think it's revolutionary, and for lexus it is revolutionary, since they've never built a super car before. and it was a hybrid as they intended, then maybe it would be worth it. but in the world of supercars, this is simply nothing new. the real revolutionary cars that came from Japan are the NSX and GT-R. the NSX changed the entire supercar world, it prioved you can have a supercar that you can drive daily, it was such an engineering master piece that even the McLaren F1 was modeled from it. and the GT-R shocked the world with it price/performance ratio. and the Veyron was the fastest car in the world! what can the LF-A do that makes it as revolutionary and worth the extra 100k?
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Ferrari F430, aluminum. The LF-A chassis is made from carbon fiber. Ferrari F430 Scud redlines @ 8500 RPM. LF-A V10 redlines @ 9000RPM. No wonder Kimi is leaving Ferrari...Toyota makes a more insane supercar.
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It's funny Vinnx, the Mercedes McLaren SLR is 125,000 dollars more expensive than the apparently overpriced LF-A even though its performance figures aren't much better than the LF-A or Ferrari 458 or 599. Despite this, the SLR sold and got good reviews. Is the SLR a ripoff to you too? What makes the LF-A worth the price is what they've put into the car: a decade of development and testing, the in-house designed carbon fiber materials, the purpose built engine, transmission, interior, CCM brakes, electronics, suspension and it's all going to be made with Lexus levels of quality which is traditionally very high.
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^ What said.
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The outside is hideous. I dont understand why they changed the front of the car. If they used the same design as from the prototype, this will be a very good looking car. Or is it due to aerodynamics, they have to remove the futuristic front bumper? We will just have to wait for the actual performance of this car. Cuz if its worth £333,000 , i'll rather get a Lamborghini Murcielago SV.
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0-60 in 3.7 secs, 202mph, 560PS, that's the usual £300k affair these days isn't it? I actually rather like this car, although I agree that keeping the front of the concept cars would've looked better. But the air intakes seem bigger on this car, so it was probably a necessary change. As for the configurator, the colours are very poorly done, apparently using Photoshop Elements to super-impose different colours, giving no real-life impression of it's appearance. The interior was better done, but there weren't any good viewing angles. Porsche's config lets you see the whole thing options-adjusted in 3D, outside too. It's much better. But some of the colour choices were mad, like Matt Black (which I couldn't help loving in a Batmobile kind of way) or Passionate Pink, a colour only to be specced by Paris Hilton before she forgets her left and right and piles it headlong into a bus. Here's hoping.
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"I'm proud to announce I've just spent £330k on a Toyota." Doh!
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rubbish configuratior but i'd like the car in pearl red please with black interior
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@invisible pigeon how can you compare it to an SLR? the SLR is about 7 years old and is no longer in production, and it first came out it was one of the fastest and most powerful cars in the world and that justified it's price.. and if Toyota is loosing money on the LF-A then the actual production cost of it might even be close to the SLR. so congratz to Lexus for creating a car that is as good a performer as a car that was made 7 years ago for close to the same price. where as other manufacturers are creating cars as fast if not faster then the SLR for a significantly cheaper price, and thats progress. and i do applaud Toyota for creating most of those materials in house, but at the same time.. those materials are nothing new.. they've been out for years.. when the SLR came out a lot of those materials were actually quite new, and the SLR had them, CCM brakes, CFRP body, handbuilt engines, which aren't that exclusive now a days..
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Vinnx - Carbon fibre and handbuilt engines a new thing in 2003, eh? I give you the 1992 McLaren F1. Ceramic brakes also first appeared on TGVs in 1988. All the same, it's a shame that people are looking at this car and seeing an overpriced Toyota, rather than an upmarket Lexus super-coupé. I'm sure they would like people to compare it to stuff such as the SLR, that's why they even made a posh badge in the first place, and it was developed over 10 years by racing enthusiasts, so it's bound to have substance. But it seems Japan can never get away with cars like this because they're just not taken seriously enough. Westerners need to let Japan prove itself.
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TG should do a Mclaren F1 and LFA side by side comparison. Epic music of course. Not the middle east, not isle of man, not even japan. . . Moscow at night.
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TG should do a Mclaren F1 and LFA side by side comparison. Epic music of course. Not the middle east, not isle of man, not even japan. . . Moscow at night.
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Winbolt, your brand snobbery would be funny if it weren't so widespread. How ignorant can people be? VW owns Bugatti and Bentley, Fiat owns Ferrari etc. So does that mean those cars suck because their parent companies make cheap little plastic cars? At least the cheap little Toyota's are reliable and actually work! I think Toyota would be one of the least shameful companies to have a luxury brand under, by that logic. And Vinnx you obviously can't get my point.
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Agreed Calling a Nissan R35 just a Datsun does what? Make you feel better as its passing you doing 160mhp ? Calling the ZR1 just Chevy will make it it any better as it passes you doing 170mph ? Calling the LF-A just a Toyota will make it any better as it passes you doing 180 mph? 2009 is putting brand snobs into their place, which is the bottom of the barrel of car community. If you were a brand snob you'd never have picked Brawn GP as champions for 09'.
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Agreed Calling a Nissan R35 just a Datsun does what? Make you feel better as its passing you doing 160mhp ? Calling the ZR1 just Chevy will make it it any better as it passes you doing 170mph ? Calling the LF-A just a Toyota will make it any better as it passes you doing 180 mph? 2009 is putting brand snobs into their place, which is the bottom of the barrel of car community. If you were a brand snob you'd never have picked Brawn GP as champions for 09'.
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I thought this was supposed to be about trying the craziest paint jobs! But since everyone is on the topic, I'm Japanese, admire Lexus cars not always the best in class but still very decent, applaud them trying their first supercar, totally agree they could've done much better with design making it radical that would make your jaw drop 'in a good way', they're a conservative brand so that figures. As far as performance Yikes! Should've just bought GT-R's thrown 100Gs (hell! even 200Gs)worth of power, configuration, refinement and design to it. End result would've cost 170,000$ and beat everything out there! Imagine a 70grand GT-R with 100G's worth of everything imagine-able?! So yes Lexus should've done ALOT better.
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I don't get your problem: just click on the red button and - surprise!!! - the car gets red... Proof: http://www.teekakageh.de/data/pictures-tryout/lexuslfa.jpg
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no, dddd1 u r not the only one who wants 1. i realy like it!
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btw yesterday when i said "I have mine" i mean ive designed it, i havent bought 1! im not THAT rich! al though i could have a look down the back of the sofa...
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AHA! 12p...
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a shirt button...
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a peanut...
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and... oh, it looks like the hampster i had when i was young didnt run away after all.
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do i have to pay withg money? do lexus accept peanuts, hampsters and shirt buttons as currency? 12p?
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I'd rather get a 458 or a 670-SV :p.... but nice sound though
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Why so down on the configurator? I think it's pretty good.... how many configs let you spin the car 360, have all those (whacky) colors and let you save and download your cool/ugly creation?
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It looks like briliant and probabily good to drive but it isn't a ravil for a Ferrari no way not in a million years
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exclusivity killed the cat
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For some reason my computer just will not load the configurator :-(
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Losing heavily on each LFA they sell, and taking 9 years to make, and what have we got? Still not as good as its European rivals at 100K less on public roads, apparently. InvisibleP, you sound like somebody from my local Toyota dealer. Before I took a test drive in a Toyota, the sales rep assured me the car is 'one of the best handling car'. But after nearly went off in each of the first 2 bends, he changed the label to 'one of the best well-equipped car'. He sure is a very smart saleman, but I laughed all the way...
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What Ferrari/Lambo has undergone 24hr testing in a german 24HR ADAC race again? Yeah, none.
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That's funny Toy_mota. I don't work for ANYONE actually. My family has 4 Lexus's and we made the switch from only Mercedes Benz 9 years ago. I'm just a car nut, who doesn't proclaim that "SOMETHING IS THE BEST BECAUSE I OWN IT", but rather " I CHOOSE TO PURCHASE THINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE BEST". How can you say it's not as good on public roads as the European comeptition considering it's not realeased and you don't know how the car handles at all? In the statement from the LFA cheif engineer, it even states that the car was not being built to smash speed records anyway, but to simply be amazingly enjoyable to drive. And can you think of a car company that's had less flops released than Lexus? If the worst criticism of a car is "it works perfectly but it's bland" that's better than the rattle traps MB has sold(yes we've owned 4 of them too from 1992 to 2001). You ever even drive a Lexus, or their competition, or just the Toyota you almost wrecked?
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InvisibleP, neither you and I have driven the LFA, so I could only take car reviews as a reference, and hence the word 'apparently' in my first comment. My in-laws have owned a BMW, Mercs, and a Japanese runaround. I thought the latter was bad enough, until a Toyota arrived at my brother-in-law's doorstep. It is in no way in the same league of my brother's Honda. I do not want to post my comment here, as it would definitely infuriate your goodself. I have driven and/or owned minis to a Roller, a Spitefire (of course the one without wings) to Ferraris, as well as 7 seaters and SUVs, and I have also run a E-type Series 1 FHC for a number of years. I also have stints in my friends and colleagues Lexus/Toyota, so I think I have just about enough experience to judge the good from the bad. And I don't stick with 1 carmarker, although I have favourites.
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Yes, the price is ridiculous, and yes the configurator is shit but please TopGear, pretty please with a cherry on top, try and get this car into the next season, and drive it, don't just mention it in the news.
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It took for ever to load on my computer. However it does look nice in a deep blue or black and excellent in white. I quite like its looks it shows the world that Lexus can make an exciting car. I think the price is a bit steep though
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22 October 2009
Toyota should have made a gtr rival, not a Ferrari rival. Just making a point.
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