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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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tohafat commented on this article
at 02:15 pm on 22 October 2009
Toyota should have made a gtr rival, not a Ferrari rival. Just making a point.
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Takk commented on this article
at 02:52 pm on 22 October 2009
It look a bit Done in 60 seconds, doesn't it?
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travelgeek commented on this article
at 02:57 pm on 22 October 2009
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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1001HP commented on this article
at 03:33 pm on 22 October 2009
I don`t like it. Looks unfinished
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carfanatic commented on this article
at 03:34 pm on 22 October 2009
did they change the design?
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