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01-26-2015, 09:04 AM | #15 | |
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I hate driving the 86 afterwards b/c it just sucks compared to it. BUT, one thing that is better...the 86 is a manual. The paddles are great but I feel more in tune with the 86 (heal/toe, rev match, etc) heres a link to my photo stream of my car and the LFA https://www.flickr.com/photos/sektor11/
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the LFA wasn't an epic fail. although i'm not 100% positive, but I'm sure that engineering exercise, helped create what we drive today. I've had the pleasure of driving one on a race track, taking her up to 120 mph, pacing a professional race car driver in an IS-F. pacing isn't technically the right word, it was more like keep up with the IS-F. i could only catch up in the straights (im not a good driver).
You can't say it was an epic fail until you've driven one. and then i'm sure you'd change your mind. Also the guys who came to test drive the LFA while I was at the track was Bruce Jenner, and then a rich middle eastern oil guy with his sons. the car wasn't meant for us... who have budgets. If I remember correctly they sold them all, so that tells you something.
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for 300k you can buy a 458, aventador and a 650S. But so can anyone else with 300k. The LFA was a limited run. The styling is questionable but it is also 100% functional. Can't say that about the other cars listed. The have already used many things from the LFA on current Lexus models (gauge clusters, the carbon fiber loom they designed is still working over time, under panels on the RCF was derived from R&D on the lfa, etc. The LFA isn't everyone's cup of tea - and I'm very biased - but it is VERY impressive for Japan's first supercar.
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The FR-S looks like the LFA's not-as-handsome-or-athletic little brother.
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Fuck me. That LFA is near perfect. If I had the dough, that's what would be sitting in my driveway. Way rather have the LFA over any other car in that price range. It's a technological marvel.
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When a 3 year old car is still available as "new" on dealership lots because nobody will buy them I wouldn't call that a rousing success, it's not like they overproduced them...
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the first two cars are labeled as "new" but one has 1k miles, and the other has over 100. chances are they already had an owner. I've heard about some buyers selling them not too long after buying them, not putting many miles on them.
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It's interesting, to consider it still a success you'd have to not consider it a consumer good, at that point it's not a car and more an exhibition, it's fine if you personally want to define it as such but you're not going to get many people agreeing with you. Cool car, great car, amazing car, that will be a footnote in automotive history at best. |
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I've spent a lot more time around them than the average person. Saw the first Nurburgring edition to land on US soil in the port of long beach. several track days, Scott Pruett took me for a ride in the LFA. So in my life, its more than a footnote in automotive history
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