Test Drive Lexus LFA 2010 - 2013 coupe
Hell's Angel
Carbon, ceramics, aluminum. V10 with a volume of 4.8 liters, from which 560 liters were removed. With. Rear-wheel drive, sevenual transmission, daily marathons as lessons and training Lexus built a LFA supercar and allowed us to experience it on Nürburgring on the Grand Prix highway and on the northern loop. Why exactly here? Tell me.
Now I have no business before LEXUS LFA looks outside. This is because I'm inside. This car, a couple with north loop, devoured not only me, but all my attention and imagination. All without a residue. However, there is no business to lexus forms now, even those who are listening to us outside: it doesn't matter, it's good to look good with a total leather popphone and smeared with a matte paint 560 horses, the swarm of the hole next to you in the air, rushing past At the speed of 270 km / h in an attempt to rely some more kilometers of speed, before diving with a full gas in the zoo, one of the last and not the most dumb, but the fastest turn of the northern loop. The machine generates such an energy at this point that suicide to remember the aesthetics.
Side accelerations that he can develop in turn are amazed: on ordinary road plates in the same LEXUS arcs as fast as racing cars are simpler, but on the slicks
But it is now, and the entire past evening passed in debates about the appearance of Lexus LFA. We trampled around the car on a static presentation, arguing about tastes, discussing the expressions of individuals and adding bodies with a glass of champagne in one hand and a press release in another. Everything was controversial, but it seemed important. Yes, he looked strange.
Probably, this is really important for the car for half a million dollars, but not now. Because now, when Lexus's first supercar is not in the hall for cocktails, but on the ancient race track, and sniffers 75 meters in one second, he opens his genuine me. Not that I, who drew the designers to him, trying to please the non-stroke sensation of what is good and what is bad from a subjective point of view of alien to them, otherwise I, who is his essence. The essence, which was here, right on races, with extremely concrete, unlike appearance, understanding what is good.
It does not depend good on the continent, nationality, aesthetics and era. Engineers worked on him seriously, and this is well transmitted to me along with the formular roar of its V10. And I do not feel anything, in addition, how tightly the four broad bridgestones stand on the Kochka asphalt of the old Nürburgring even at the 200 speed, on which we fly to the Swedish Cross. And I do not see anything, besides how much you could add to the next round, because LFA is primarily a racing car, then cooked for roads. It is his essence, and the pilot feels so thin and just as if clung to his favorite track, which knows every crack not other unfamiliar tires, but with his own hands and legs. Yes, I had to go here as fast, but never as now as now
From the other Lexus in the LFA used two nodes: a mouse-like remote touch manipulator and air conditioning. It's all. And all the rest of the virtuoso and unique engineering work. Everything unique in the car, starting with the layout and ending with the technologies, which today is in itself a huge rarity: it is almost impossible to offer something non-standard non-standard. LFA is almost completely made of carbon. From this material monocook safety capsule, doors and hood, but the front and rear power structures from aluminum. The engine is empty, however, it will be completely pulled into the database, thereby reducing the moment of car inertia around the vertical axis. The transaxle scheme was applied when the gearbox is assigned to the rear axle, but the transmission engine is rigidly connected to each other with an additional box of the cardan shaft. The engine is in front, but its radiators are attributed to the rear Sve. So, again, the improvement is improved, and so the air intakes are strange for the front-engine car in the back of the sides.
Drink a motor rings easily. It is not easy to get used to unscrew it to 9000 rpm, when the tachometer bluses, and the engine begins to howst. Because he is a Plugit Maral that already all 560 horses push you towards new turns, and because the moment the engine characteristic is flat, as a ruler. Gasoline V10 smoothly increases the return without bursts and due. It is flexible: you can drag on one and a half thousand, you can go on three, you can rage, switching about seven, and you can dub off, waiting with switching to nine on a tachometer. And professional riders would have to like exactly what Lexus offers, perfect smooth return.
Two Japanese assistants help to tie a node of six-deck safety belts on the nose. On the head helmet, on the hands of gloves, on the body number. And around, in addition to the standard carbon and leather interior, the frame tubes. Despite all this masquerade, is it absolutely serial serial? Well, almost serial car. And the pipes are just easy insurance in case of what: if driving this center of high technologies costing under half a million dollars will be a jerk, or on the track will suddenly run out of the bombard. Who knows it. Are they bold in Lexus? Yes, they are incredibly bold. They are worthy of respect and for courage, but much more for the fact that the courage is justified!
LFA's strength demonstration released the creative and technical potential of LEXUS engineers who proved that they are under the solution of the most difficult tasks at the highest level
No one, no manufacturer of mass sports models, in my memory did not release test pilots from the press without supervision on the northern loop of Nürburgring the fastest, complex and dangerous ring racing track from the creation of the world and to the present day.
But LFA is not a mass car. This is not even a serial Ferrari: Lexus LFA will be produced by a limited series of 500 copies with all the procedures with sequence numbers, testimonies of the entire exclusivity guarantee. Those 4 (four words) machines on which we traveled were released outside the series, but counted, taken into account and after tests will stand in four show figures. Shedhers We are one of them about the fence, and one of the parts of the world will lose its LFA. Nevertheless, we are born to them and produce on the track in full solitude. To those who happened to be, could join the complete burner and tell about it. Lexus is absolutely confident in its car.
The sound of the LEXUS LFA engine reminds the voice of the racing formulas much more than the roar of multiliery supercars, which he, no doubt, can be considered right
They created a fantastic stabilization system, which keeps the car, but does not interfere and does not pay attention to the way the pilot is not mistaken. You can slide, steer with gas or download dynamics. You can ride on concrete slabs, screwed into the Carousel Karacholla. Here all other ESP systems are decorating at the joints, and only Lexus understands what it does not interfere with and does not cover gas. You can slightly slip into soap negative turns, like Hutzdenbach, and use the profile and a holder even on a dizzying descent, as in Arberg. And the ESP system is ready for this. It analyzes even the slope of the road. You can not be afraid of the American slides of the Swedish Cross, the curves of springboard and unloading of the flughaples and pflatzgarten at the speed of about two hundred, because thanks to the flat bottom, the diffuser, the large anti-rack, rising in high racks, and the high-quality body streaming machine is pressed to the road as reliably as Ring chambers with antiques. You can take everything by touching the limit in every turn, because thanks to the brilliant suspension Lexus LFA goes in the same arcs on the road tires faster than the racing BMW M3, on which we participate in the German VLN championship, on the futures. And you can literally keep in your hands this limit thanks to an informative steering. And when you need to slow down, ceramic brakes will not be overheated. Yes, I already traveled here as quickly losing on every circle on the shelf weight. But I never went here as quickly and as easy as pleasure.
LFA is a fantastically perfect car for a pilot, which does not take into a person enjoying an independent control, but remains strikingly manual and not dangerous even in extremely difficult conditions and at the highest speeds.
Approximately 380 thousand euros. Total 500 pieces and difficult maintenance. With such difficulties, LFA will not be the choice of fans of track-days, but it becomes a historic car. A kilometer post on the Lexus Road, showing the moment when an initially adult firm became so adult to afford such a serious toy one of the most high-tech supercars of modernity. They needed to do it. Just because they can.
Design
LFA V10 engine with dry crankcase. The specific return is very high 560 liters. With. With 4.8 liters of working volume. It was possible to achieve such results due to the fact that the limit modes of this motor are close to the mode of operation of the formula-1 motor. For example, despite the fact that its limit revisions are not so high, the speed of movement of the pistons in the cylinders is the same technically as much as possible today. Sequential six-speed transmission was made by the Lexus order by AISIN. This is a robotic unit with one clutch. Abandoning the use of two clutch systems has become possible due to the fact that the LEXUS LFA engine is spinning and discarding the turns almost instantly. However, in order to avoid tough pushs, even with low switching speeds, the driver will have to accept the gas at the time of change of steps. Supercar ceramic brakes are insured against reducing efficiency when heating and reduce insistant masses. Six-piston machines work in front, four-position.
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