We are living in an era where for every car enthusiast in any nook and corner of the world, supercar is the realm of exhilaration and adrenaline rush is the synonym for speed in his technical lingo. The techno savvy, crème de la crème supercars with the aura of majesty turn out to be the epitome of engineering perfection.
There is always a debate regarding how much can one shell out for a supercar considering its performance, looks, market value et al. Nissan sells GT-R for £60,000 while Bugatti sells its Veyron for just about two million pounds. The price of the supercars is spread over a wide range which means there is always the phenomenon of more value for less money and less value for more!
All these could be mindboggling as you might not find any correlation between the discussion so far with the headline “The Lexus LFA – It’s not a car to drive, rather it’s a car to own!”. Well, actually there is some! Lexus’s LFA is trying to gain the upper hand in the supercar category but its price tag is deplorably not lucrative.
What’s on offer in the LFA?
The amount of work involved in designing the LFA is absolutely immense. Under the hood is a brawny 4.8l V10 pumping 552 horses with a torque of 480Nm that no doubt will make a voracious supercar admirer bonkers. Nought to 60mph is reached in about 3.6 seconds and the top whack is limited to 203mph. Torque is transmitted to the rear wheels and there is a launch control system to add thrill to the drive. Lexus has adopted an innovative wave of tuning the engine’s acoustics by using its note to break a champagne flute and thence the sound of the V10 is more pleasing that one would ever expect.
Leaving aside the performance and aesthetics aspects of the LFA, there is more to talk about the value of one’s moolah. LFA is less powerful than a Gallardo, slower than a 458 Italia, heavier than the Mclaren MP4-12C, however it is more expensive than a Zonda! That is where things start getting ironical. Its silly and insane price tag of £330000 is too much for one to imagine.
Lexus is a fledgling in the supercar arena but then it has taken a bold step in introducing a car with a staggering price tag. Even if driving one does not give you the satisfaction as its counterparts, owning one in your stable certainly is gonna make you proud and all the credits go to its price. It is way too posh.
Will the new entrant LFA be a darkhorse in the supercar category for quite a while or will it signal the beginning of a new epoch of supercars? Let us wait and watch!
Will the new entrant LFA be a darkhorse in the supercar category for quite a while or will it signal the beginning of a new epoch of supercars? Let us wait and watch!
1 comments:
The LFA to me is this: it's a car that does more for the Lexus brand than it does to the supercar world. It's to me a way of Lexus telling its customers, "We can build a supercar as well." That's great in some ways but it's hard to see what the car brings to the supercar market. Yes, it might be built with devilish attention to detail compared to the Ferraris and Lamborghinis but that alone doesn't cut the mustard. Now, one of the big contributors to the price might be that it is the first car to bear all the R&D expenses. I tried squaring up the price to what the car is and that's how I came to the conclusion. It slots in really well in the supercar pantheon, but it's not fresh, doesn't do a stand-out new feature and hence, I'm afraid, a bit pointless.
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