lol

Toyota refused to allow there engineers to make another sports car for a long time. They wanted to have them focus on being successful in formula one before they would reenter that market. But that just wasn't going to happen

+lokken23 actually a Toyota engineer himself said it is a jerk car of engineers.

+lokken23 yeah, because americans are TRYING to make a proper car more than a 100 years xD

yeah... like almost ten years.. :D

@infoslinger I'm sorry, loud does not mean it is the best sounding. If it's just volume, then I'd say any nitro fueled dragster with 20k hp will do. The LFA is musical at its loudest. Sweet and enticing you .

THIS is the best sounding engine. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nMB9g6d0s9-1qHk.html

Pagani Zonda F is the 1st men

This is what happens when you get Yamaha to tune your exhaust.

I have to say, the new C8 Z06 sounds absolutely amazing. It’s been a while since I heard the LFA in Nurburgring, so it’s hard to tell. Need to do a side by side comparison.

The Gordon Murray T50's V12 sound is getting close to the LFA, but I think I still prefer the V10.

@@leoarc1061 Its like a symphony we all like. 😁😁

2022 and it’s still my dream car

See you in 2023?

Yeah 2030 and beyond still my dream car.

@@BenDover-vs7ih 2023 and still my dream car

@@brandonmccall2980hello. my favorite car since it came out

Well said

It sounds like something which comes from @donut media up to speed

@@iiib2975 pumphrey.

Agreed

It wouldn't surprise me if that's what those initials actually mean.

I agree..... This is one of the few cars that I truly believe is worth every penny. These cars have become investments to top it all off. Average asking price today is around 450 to 500k. Its appreciated about 100k in 7 years. You rarely ever see that in exotics unless there is a good reason

ZeroStriker426 If you said the same exact thing about a car that came from GM it would all somehow be a bad thing.

A respectable brand.

@@bingram5645 you truly know nothing about cars.

@@bingram5645 the costs you mentioned above is absolute rubbish. If you have no real experience in the automotive industry please don't put out information you know nothing about

Toyotas rule.

It was a collaboration with Yamaha who developed the engine for Toyota.

​@@ReferenceFidelityComponentsyamaha doesnt make the engine kid, they helped to make the car sounds damn good. but the engine still came from toyota factory

@@erics7219 Yamaha co-developed the whole engine with Toyota, did I say "made the engine"? No. Read my comment again. The gearbox was specially developed by the Aisin Corporation in Japan. Oh...and you're not talking to a "kid" 😉

@@ReferenceFidelityComponents I think the block is fully Toyota. Yamaha's collaboration is mostly with the cylinder heads and this case the system exhaust like it was mentioned in this video.

@@SWOgottaGO Yes, the whole engine was manufactured at Toyota at their Motomachi Plant in Aichi. The development was definitely, as stated, a collaboration with Yamaha brought in to jointly develop the engine and gearbox. What few people talk about is the more remarkable achievement by Lexus engineers who developed and all new form of carbon reinforced plastic, designing and making their own weaving loom, eventually used to manufacture the body. Their commitment to excellence on thsi project shows, and it was fantastic to see little nods on design and sculpture from the LFA project find their way into the stunning LC500 cars, which for us mere mortals, are actually attainable, at least on the used market.

Show of hands ,, How many car manufacturers bought their OWN CARBON LOOM to make their carbon fiber...Only Toyota. Because they can.

Rob Lucchetti I think they made it or invented it.

IMO, same difference. No other auto manufacturer has done that and most cannot. Even companies like Porsche and Ferrari must depend on 3rd party carbon manufacturers like Toriyama. Toyota has enormous resources to be able to do just about anything, and this car proves that. This will always be a very special car for that and many other reasons.

vidurc This thing is almost Veyron-level engineering. Truly incredible.

Rob Lucchetti pretty sure koenigsegg does as well

+losi8ightyew A thousand horsepower STI, if you could even attain that number could go maybe 5 to 10 thousand miles between engine rebuilds. 1000 is a monsterous number for an EJ.

+headless13 Your stuck in 2000 man. You'd be suprised what an EJ is capable of nowadays. 1000 is EASILY obtainable now. Will it be cheap? No. Horsepower never is. Check out (TRP) if you wanna understand more of what an EJ can do. The hardest thing for an EJ is tuning it and making the tune consistent thru cold starts up till running temps. That's where ringland failures, pre dets etc came from. Alas, they're pretty much nonexistent in a knowledgable build and nowadays technology. Once again everything comes down to if it's done right and correctly the first time.

+headless13 Here you go before you naysay me. I told you, we've came a log ways. esxproductions.com/esxprod/2009/05/1400-horsepower-esx-ali-afshar-subaru-7-second-pass/

Most people will just think a 1000hp STI is annoying and should get out of the way. The LFA is a unicorn and attracts the most attention because most people have never seen one in person before.

Lol sti trashh

It's funny to watch the original Top Gear where they joke about the cost. And now they are three times as expensive.

A sound inspired by the F1 cars obviously

@@Pirustae and?

If you take an elite Swiss watch and turn it into a car.

The sound recording is poorly done

There's 26 for sale on Autotrader Now all I have to do is win the lottery!

AutomotiveVlog So, have you won the lottery yet?

Yeah I won $4 I ordered a LFA Hotwheel on Ebay

Wow, congratulations!

re: "I'm into muscle cars but If I won the lottery I'd buy one of these just for the sound." autovlog, you are going to be a general some day...!!!

A true professional.

Wheeler dealer

That wasn't a spokeperson from Toyota/Lexus, it's an editor from the Road & Track magazine.

123 456 Ya, and then other times he can't remember that he asked the owner the fuel tank capacity 5 minutes earlier and is asking again.

This is a scripted show with writers and researchers that do all the work, give Jay the info, and he presents that info. Jay vey well likely only knows about 10-20% of presented facts, if its a car he personally likes but does not own. Cars he does own that come on the show are different. Come on people, Jay is an actor and tv host first.

Where else would a Japanese super car come from?

I think you could argue that the R34 Z tune was the best japanese super car to come from Japan, but its definitely close

⁠@@colbymoorman6034bro what? nowhere. the way he worded it doesn’t mean that he’s saying it could come from anywhere else. he was just simply saying it’s a japanese super car and it’s the best super car from japan

Yea.. after ten years of development it crashs the first day in Nuremberg and kills the pilot lmao

@@ivangamer8022 The specific car was a prototype that was being tested previously in the day, and was a head on collision on a public road with another test car from BMW. No one has ever really been sure of the cause. Terrible loss, seeing as it was Hiromu Naruse, not just some regular test 'pilot'.

@@ivangamer8022 bro you said this multiple times...no one cares

There's still one brand new lfa left for sale in the US. Somehow lol

@@shelbydelapaz7397 cap

Dreams are big but there are a few exceptions!!!

The majority of the ricers don't have 10 bucks in their pockets,that's why they're ricers.............

So solly !

Amen

If only LFA was a supra whole world would love it

Or just made it look more like the FT1 concept

But then it wouldn't be a Supra... It would be a baby LFA... The modeled the new Supra after the Supra, which they should have... They just slightly missed the mark

New BMW*

I am a fan of the gtr, and I think this car is one of the most greatest and specials cars ever made

brin3535 Thanks! I am not a fan of "old muscle v8" or "euro fan"

I fail to see why I would dislike this because I love the gtr

watch how this is made and watch how the skyline made both by NatGeo...and the sound.....gtr needs take singing classes this is Boccelli of all engines

That's exactly what u was thinking gtr fans suck

They built 500 of them and nothing remotely close since. If they built another supercar in high volume with same engine those values wouldve been considerably lower. Compare it more to like viper acr. Those hold quite nicely.

I Finn I actually just seen one for sale for $800k in California.

If the mileage is low below than 50000kms it's over 400k dollars damn

800k and around 1m for nurturing editions

You're not the best at comparisons.

ILikeExoticStuff hmmmm, u may be on to something lol......

A car married a woman and she gave birth to the LFA? What lol

Thx for sharing

poetry in words brother

Aaron Jackier it makes perfect sense OK

Tom J well it does cost almost 400K so.....

Autum 21, LFA are actually between 600.000€ to 1.000.000€ priced and the Nürburgrin edition at 1.000.000+€ priced......if you are able to find one for sale. I think in the next 4-5 years the price will sky rocket like the Mclaren F1

@@Zero.X Yeah it’s really crazy what can happen in a year. Throughout most of 2020 the base models were still selling at around $400k for even low mileage cars and now the cheapest sale I could find in 2021 (at least in the US) was $579,000. I don’t think it’ll be as huge as the F1, but I agree the price still probably has a lot further to climb. In a few years we’ll be talking about when you could get an LFA for “only” 800 grand

Well, now it's 2024 and prices are still going up.

Mine too.

Check out the Top Gear review of the Porsche Carrera GT.

+808aaq Batman does have a daily driver car and it's Lamborghini lol. but i see what you mean

batman drives american corvettes

MrMisanthrope1 Batman drives yugos.

Lamborghini

There are still 13 LFA's unsold. You can legit buy a new one from the showroom, now! If you had the money, that is.

Yea.. after ten years of development it crashs the first day in Nuremberg and kills the pilot lmao

Not really but ok

this guy is thinking of the LC500, not the LFA, right?

As for price. As far as I know no one has had a gun put to their head and been marched to the dealer and forced to buy this car if you like it and can afford it why not ?

4.8L V10 putting out 500+hp with 9000rpm potential ? Nothing "technological" there, i don't think. Honda got 240hp with a high revving 2.0 4cyl about a decade ago, almost. The V10 is amazing but with 10 cylinders this is expected.

+dex b Over a decade ago. S2000 came out in 1999 I believe. Broke the record for HP per liter. 9000rpm limit, 240hp, 2.0L amazing engine.

Carlos 😎👍🏽🇯🇵🇨🇺🇺🇸

The Merc S class of supercars.

Ian Townsend enough said ....by the god of “poweeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr!!!!!” 😏🇨🇺🇺🇸

Clarkson has said that about a few cars. You should always take what he says with a grain of salt. I love Clarkson (and Hammond and May for that matter) but the guy can make very little sense. Take for example what he says about Alfas - that every real petrol head should, at some time in their life, own one, but then on the other hand they're an absolute nightmare because of horrible reliability and impracticality. When it comes to cars, Clarkson is 99.9% emotion and how the car makes him feel.

@@bghoody5665 "Emotion" & "how it makes you feel" is the only logical reasoning to purchasing a vehicle that has 6+ digits in it's price tag.

@@kevins5911 I agree, even with lower or second hand prices. I had an old Volvo, every time I get in I smiled, but too old for a daily driver for me. Bought a newer one with 5 cilinder engine. The sound of that makes up for the fuel consumption... A car need something to make you happy for a petrolhead. If it doesn't, fine, A-to-B and cheap is fine too...

Its because of you Engineers that the car failed.

@@josephm.crancebbapm4904 Did it fail? Toyota was only going to make 500. How is making 500 a failure? Yes they didn't make money off them as far as profits are concerned but if you look at the newest vet it up the game for sevral manufacturers. Limited production.

Lol bro that's a good one =))

over 8000

I can imagine myself reaching the 9k limit. Wow.

Lol...

You think there is a kitchen in there? I would need food lol

Jeremy is 6inches taller

@@dominicbeltz9057 and 2 feet wider. lol

Joe H yeah I will do it for free!

olvisvasquez, absolutely, probably more as long as you kept up with scheduled maintenance and oil changes. Somebody got pissed at me and responded, because I told the God honest truth and said that my German made BMW 650i Cabriolet although beautiful was incredibly unreliable. And a Lexus/Toyota almost never needs anything save for oil changes. Sad, but true!!!

HAHA the pretty truth

300k is just broken in 😁

And that denim shirt and jeans combo jays been wearing ever episode

A Sexual Transmitted Infection???

@@TheDavinci314. Uhh, u r joking tho right? Or do u actually not know? If you dont then it's a Subuar STI

@@daniel_pak55 that was a joke... duh

@@TheDavinci314. Good lmaoo

Well said

Well said!

Yea.. after ten years of development it crashs the first day in Nuremberg and kills the pilot lmao

@@ivangamer8022 And Lambos and Ferraris have crashed far more, as tragic as that was.

Thank you for saying that, I'm not sure how Jay missed saying that!

Biggggg GTR/Skyline fan

Um they don't have 40 years of racing heritage =P he doesn't mention it because it doesn't exist. The original prince skylines were made by a company that fell apart and sold themselves to Datsun. Later Niss/Datsun eventually got to the r32 (Of course the last generation Ferrari crew working for them at this time probly had nothing to do with this =P ) which in japanTC racing was legendary but elsewhere its unique way of building a car landed it in a class that wasn't exactly fair (like racing a stock prius Vs a Ferrari.) AusTC after two years placed it in a class with cars of comparable power and weight. Once it was placed with cars that had a comparable specs it never placed higher then 4th. After the R33 and R34 never did well in their classes due to becoming extremely overweight with their new AWD system. All that aside............. The modern day GTR is indeed a great piece of engineering however the question still remains who the hell built it? Originally they said American Nissan designers designed the 3/4 of the body work, and their euro designers did the roofline while they made the premier new chassis based on the old 2001 skyline model. Later it was revealed that Lotus was employed and designed the chassis because the Japanese couldn't get the results or the weight they wanted............. In result Nissan tweaks out and twin turbo's a v6 and that's about as far as their racing heritage goes (and that's all you get from them when you buy a modern GTR =P.)

A lot of people would disagree with you. It doesn't matter who built what part or where, the fact of the matter is they raced under Datsan/Nissan, and does anybody really make thier own cars anymore?

Its not deniable that they have done good things. However the companies that did them no longer exist, leaving no heritage within there new cars. However the LFA is groundbreaking for there country because the technology within it is now patented and other companies are paying to use it. Many people shrug this off but many people forget that All the money porsche makes, over 40% comes from patented technology.

LOL Facts right here.

By any chance do you know why the limited the production number?

to be honest i have no idea, I'm guessing they lose money for every car they build, and for novelty

true that.but all cars were sold in the two years of production. and they intended to make 500 from the very beginning

Hadie Kumastar exclusivity, rich people want to know that not everybody an have one, because only 500 are made.

leolol Exactly, Toyota is just trying to show that they have great engineers and designers that can build a car that can run with the best of the best. For the same reason Ferrari only built 400 Enzo's. Exclusivity, counts and draws attention.