The Lexus LFR’s Hybrid V8 Doesn’t Come Close To Matching LFA’s Screaming V10

A brace of prototypes for the adjacent road-going Lexus supercar person been filmed astatine the Nurburgring, and portion the improvement of the car is acold from over, the engineers driving them were much than blessed to thrust them close connected the ragged borderline of grip.

Speculation has been rife astir the car for rather immoderate time. It’s been successful the works for respective years and volition spawn some a road-legal exemplary and a GT3 racing car. The second was outed astatine Spa Francorchamps earlier successful the year, but the cars featured successful this clip are rather intelligibly the road-legal model.

Read: New Lexus LFR Supercar Reveals Interior And Confirms V8 Hybrid Powertrain

Visually, the production-spec LFR retains the aforesaid wide signifier arsenic the racer and, arsenic such, shares a batch successful communal with the Lexus GR GT3 Concept unveiled successful aboriginal 2022. This means there’s a agelong hood and a compartment that‘s acceptable precise acold back, benignant of similar the Mercedes-AMG GT. Many of the astir melodramatic aero elements of the contention car person been ditched for the thoroughfare model. However, determination are inactive plentifulness of immunodeficiency that should assistance suck the LFR to the pavement.

The beforehand of the car includes a ample splitter and canards, arsenic good arsenic a hood with a brace of NACA ducts. There are besides ample aerial ducts down the beforehand wheels and aerial intakes conscionable successful beforehand of the rear wheels. The stand-out diagnostic of the rear is the towering wing. As we reported past week, Lexus is investigating astatine slightest 2 antithetic wings and it’s unclear astatine this signifier which of the 2 volition beryllium utilized by the accumulation car.

Then there’s the powertrain. The LFR volition deed the marketplace with a hybridized V8, and portion small is known astir this engine, it should beryllium hugely powerful. This prototype is significantly quieter than the GT3-spec car we spotted successful June and doesn’t travel adjacent to matching the iconic soundtrack of the V10-powered LFA. It doesn’t adjacent look to lucifer the V8 burble of the Lexus LC 500.

However, it’s worthy noting that these prototypes apt bash not diagnostic production-spec exhaust systems, and the soundtrack could alteration rather a batch by the clip the car hits the market. And erstwhile volition that be? Well, the contention car won’t debut until the 24 Hours astatine Daytona successful January 2026, and the thoroughfare car won’t get until after, possibly successful mid-2026.

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