2012 Lexus LFA
If you’re one of the 500 lucky customers chosen by Lexus to get your hands on the 2012 LFA, you can now vie to own one of just 50 LFAs equipped with the Nürburgring package. The special edition celebrates the LFA’s entry into the Nürburgring 24 Hours race this May—it also competed in the 2008 and 2009 races—and offers even more performance than the regular car.
The Nürburgring package promises additional downforce courtesy of a bigger front splitter; a taller, fixed rear spoiler; and small side fins—all made from carbon fiber. The suspension receives a sportier calibration, and new multispoke wheels are shod in extra-sticky tires. It all should add up to pretty epic levels of grip, given that we already recorded 1.00 g on the skidpad in a stock LFA.
The 4.8-liter V-10 also earns 10 extra hp, for a total of 562. The six-speed sequential transmission is revised, Lexus says, for quicker shifts requiring just 0.15 second.
The special-edition LFA is said to top out at 202 mph and manage the 0–62 mph sprint in just 3.7 seconds, identical to the claims for the base car. We recorded a 3.7-second run to 60 mph in our testing of the regular LFA.
Buyers can take advantage of driving lessons on the Nordschleife at the Nürburgring, as well as a free one-year pass to drive the track. For serious ’Ring heads, that alone may justify the cost of the Nürburgring package, although we don’t yet know what that cost is—no pricing has been released.
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