Test drive Lexus LFA 2010 - 2013 compartment
Lighter than Ferrari, faster than audi
Running. Push. Then again and again ... Damn it, I won’t get to the finish line! Your humble servant for the Lexus LFA test went with a light concussion and a slightly knocked -out cervical vertebra (the results of an unsuccessful heading of his head on the asphalt from a bicycle). Funny, of course. Bike! Nevertheless, this business trip for the body really became a real test. I knew what I was going on: the flights of Moscow-London and vice versa. The road to Goodwood. Track. 3.7 seconds to hundreds. Overload more than one g. Helmet. Poor head. Poor neck. But I simply could not refuse to get acquainted with LFA. The driving experience on such cars accumulates oh-o-oh-very slowly. The chance to ride on the Lexus limited supercar, and even on the track, is generally unique: we will not give Lexus an engineering miracle to our compatriots, because no one in a timely prepayment.
So. On the track in Goodwood, we were exactly after the end of the legendary annual speed festival Goodwood Revival. And what? For everything about all two series of races for ten minutes. Four sessions of three circles are not enough for acquaintance with addiction. Yes, and an unfamiliar track. But nothing.
Starting the engine a whole ritual. First you need to turn on the ignition by inserting and turning the key in the lock. Then turn on the neutral, at the same time clicking with both steering wheel switches. The starter comes to life only after pressing the carbon button on the stake of the steering wheel. To move, just stomping the gas is not enough, you need to turn on the first gear at first with the steering wheel with the steering wheel. Running, push. From turning to turn, from circle to circle more or less, I feel the trajectory for nothing complicated Goodwood Circuit.
Apparently, the organizers are protecting cars. Therefore, in each session it is possible to drive only three circles with supposedly warming, testing and cooling, knowing that few will adhere to this routine, Toyotovites in breaks between sessions make impressive pauses, they deliberately pull the time and headlights are wiped, check the pressure in the tires, the level of oil They defiantly do an external inspection of everything and everything (although this does not interfere at all), go, go in fact, time is released to cool.
We go a circle of circle, two - we are lying to Vanka, I only adhered to at first. I study the first circle at the walking pace, I study ergonomics, click with pens, and I give the buttons. Contrary to the rules, I remove the helmet right on the go to enjoy the divine sound of a ten -cylinder atmosphere. I switch to neutral (both steering wheel switch to myself) and just swing straight. Gas! Br-r-I-I-VK !!! Only 0.6 seconds, and on the electronic tachometer there are already maximum nine thousand.
Ten standard and twenty special colors will be offered to choose from. The brake mechanism calipers can be ordered in one of the six colors.
Brakes with carbonocramramic disks (390 mm in front, 360 mm behind). In one of the races, I managed to get brake fire and smoke. Efficiency has not suffered.
Anti -wing rises at a speed of more than 80 km/h
Oh Gods! A whole department of acoustics engineers worked on the setting of sound support. The mystery of the sound begins at the inlet itself with the collector with a variable geometry, which provides a two -stage resonance boost ends in an intricate exhaust system, in which two paths after neutralizers with exhaust gases. Up to 3000 rpm, the sound of the exhaust is drowning in a barrel-grinder ... Over 3000, a special damper directs the gases to the graduation pipes along the direct-flow parts of the exhaust system bypassing the main muffler. And then the sound gives God not only inside! Do not wake a famously b-r-y-i-in !!!
Probably, for the first time I see such a futuristic and at the same time practical interior in a serial car. The functionality of the multimedia system is controlled by a static mouse (like Lexus RX) located on the central tunnel.
The interior design is very flexible. Seats and upholstery can be ordered in 12 leather performances and 10 alcantar. Leather inserts of the steering wheel and stitching 12 color design, six rugs. Metallized inserts can be two colors of silver and black-brown.
The energy of the frontal blow is extinguished by frontal airbags and wide belts with an integrated pillow in them
A short -term atmospheric V10 from a liter produces 116.6 hp. Isn't it a miracle? And this is without the use of a direct injection system! A dozen forged aluminum pistons and titanium tones of the timing with titanium valves and phase -breeders at the inlet and release. Of course, a motor with a dry crankcase, firstly, it allowed it to be as low as possible, which significantly reduced the center of the car masses as a whole, and, first of all, a dry crankcase excludes oil starvation during overloads up to 2G.
Enough the fool to fall. Must go. From circle to circle I increase the pace. I’m going and praising myself, well done, vital, pure trajectory. To see a lot of expensive. What would I do without worships-subscriptions placed on the sides of the track? With each turn of gas I give more and more naturally I am mistaken more and more often. What will happen next, after these two turns? Damn him. A fragment is not visible. There was no trace of a smooth ride, I clarify the trajectory with jerks, the gas gashlet implicitly performs the dinostens of the right leg sometimes, it seems that the feedback is overly sharp. So it is, especially in the range from 6,000 to 9000 revolutions ...
The rear -wheel drive gives pepper. You can easily pass the arcs under the gas, looking with your nose inside the turn. He went too far, and his ass instantly drags to the side and forward. Correcting the skid is easy, you manage to restore the course before the intervention of the contrasting system. And she, admitted, comes into work softly and delicately, although she does not allow such deep drifts, as, for example, on the all-wheel drive Nissan GT-R. Feedback on the steering wheel is more than enough. Krains? Back! They are not here at all, well, or almost completely. The merit of a light body (1480 kg) with minimal moments of inertia regarding the axes of rotation and a low center of gravity Initially, the LFA project was conceived as completely aluminum, but over time, the engineers reviewed the approach. Monocock is collected from carbon fiber components (they account for two -thirds of the mass). The anterior and back parts of the spatial power structure are aluminum. They are attached to the carbon middle with threaded joints and special bushings. All this. Of course, flavored with a large number of amplifiers. The plumage is predominantly plastic.
The plumage suffered from me. Finished off. The plastic threshold, part of the left sidewall and the air intake of the radiator of the cooling system, I polished with small gravel, to which I was taken out of the track. I soaked, yes. And how! It seemed that he was too hard in front of the next turn, immediately decided to slightly add gas. And overwhelmed. Overheated twenty -inch rollers, shod in Bridgestone No Name with the EM98 designation specially designed for compartment, went to dance. LFA with gliding of both axles swimming on the external radius and without a twinge of conscience left the track. In general, what was ordered to him, he did everything that was happening was recorded by the cameras and the Vbox measuring complex. By the way, at speeds close to maximum (325 km/h), Supercar could not be tested, the maximum that I managed to reach at the end of the speed straight on Goodwood Circuit, about 240 km/h.
The instrument shield is a liquid crystal monitor to which all information about the flight is displayed. The tachometer here is the soloist, depending on the selected mode, the design changes. To the right of the dashboard the grinding of the selection of transmission modes and the engine, there are only three Normal, Sport (the response to gas presses is the fastest, the time switching time is short) and the WET (the gas is sophisticated, and the gears are switched more slowly and smooth). The gear shift time can be adjusted separately, regardless of the activated power unit control mode. The minimum transfer time is 0.2 seconds
After departure, I was quickly afraid. Yes, and it would not work out the pebbles stuck in the protector many times worsened the clutch and spoiled the balancing. In addition, the scale of the disaster was not clear to me. But we rode on pre -production samples! I wonder what is their cost? I was just sure that the aprons and skirts in the rags still ducked a very deeply in a gravel trap. In addition, one god knows where the gravel air intakes, radiators, corners, butterflies you never know!
The steering column is adjustable by departure and angle of inclination. Manual transmission petals, as expected, are static. Megastille seemed to be thin -tone, steering wheel switches and wipers similar to arcs of expensive glasses
In general, the car, to the annoyance of colleagues who waited for their turn, was removed from the track, and the test was suspended. While vacuumed the track and rolled out a reserve LFA, a lot of precious test time has gone. Although a couple of hours after the total audit the red compartment on which I flew out on the track was still released.
Many say that LFA is Toyota’s transition to another weight category. Allegedly, the Japanese can no longer be left without a supercar in the lineup. Now Lexus promises the cost of the basic execution of LFA for the United States and Europe to keep at $ 375,000. Well, let it be so. At least, by its efforts, the company is able to make a bit happier than those who long for peremptory engineering incarnations. And we will be happy for those and others. LFA production starts from December this year. They promise to produce 20 cars a year, in total it is planned to produce 500 supercars. By the way, they are already sold out.
Vitaly Kabyshev
Photo by the author and Lexus
Source: Auto.mail.ru
