[Guff]

I think we need to:

1. Not consider Nurburgring lap times as a measure of how good a car is. An LFA will be built with the utmost quality and precision by small Japanese Master Technicians, whereas a Viper is built by a bunch of fat women in Detroit (How It's Made episode shocked me, lol)

2. Realize that, The LFA is NOT A CAR. Or at least, not in the usual sense. Toyota isn't making gobs of money on this car, in fact, they aren't making any. This car was a demonstration of how ridiculously intense Toyota's engineering can be. And Engineering does not translate to Horsepower or Track Times. Engineering is optimizing the fewest materials to produce the highest quality product. A V10 that revs to 9-10k, that is the size of a V8, and the weight of a V6? That takes work. Producing 117HP per Liter out of an NA engine, that takes serious work. CREATING AN ENTIRELY NEW MATERIAL (CFRP), for which only 2 looms exist (Toyota has both), that takes a lot of work.

This car isn't a car in the traditional sense. When you buy this car, you are acknowledging what Toyota has done and essential investing your money in their tech. And with investment, comes expansion; and with expansion, comes an increase in supply, which translates to lower costs. When (a more advanced, obv) CFRP starts coming in your FR-S', and costs no more than aluminium or steel does now, you'll wonder how we got by without it. And the precursor to that, is the LFA.