{"id":112575,"date":"2009-12-29T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/29\/rumormill-fabled-lexus-gs-f-to-use-lfas-v10\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T23:57:00","slug":"rumormill-fabled-lexus-gs-f-to-use-lfas-v10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/112575","title":{"rendered":"Rumormill: Fabled Lexus GS F to use LFA’s V10"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Sedan<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, Japan<\/a>, Lexus<\/a>, Rumormill<\/a><\/p>\n

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Lexus LFA – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nWe’ve been hearing<\/a> rumblings<\/a> about a Lexus GS F<\/a> for over two years<\/a>, with the most recent report indicating that the maxed-out super sedan was put on hold<\/a> until the economic climate reached a balmy 75-degrees. However, the rumormongers at Japan’s BestCar<\/em> seem to think that the GS F is back on track, and not only that, it’ll be powered by a detuned version of the LFA<\/a>‘s V10.<\/p>\n

Although that sounds simply insane at first blush, the possibility of a 500+ hp V10 powerplant coincides with an initial report<\/a> released way back in September of 2007. Not only that, but the GS F’s closest competition — the BMW M5 — uses a bent-ten as well. However, even if Toyota is trying to spread out the costs of the LFA’s development, with BMW’s bahn burner about to get the twin-turbocharged V8<\/a> from the BMW X6\/X5 M<\/a> and Mercedes-Benz’ decision to drop its 6.2-liter engines in favor of force-fed eights<\/a>, it could be bad timing… or a cunning marketing move, depending on your motivational perspectives.<\/p>\n

Speculation aside, if Toyota does pull the trigger and fit a reworked version of the 552-hp, 4.8-liter 1LR-GUE V10 into its staid sedan, expect the performance to strip the paint clean off it’s swollen fascia while leaving you over $100,000 lighter in the process.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: First Drive: 2011 Lexus LFA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\n[Source: BestCar via Carscoop<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Rumormill: Fabled Lexus GS F to use LFA’s V10<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Sedan, Performance, Japan, Lexus, Rumormill Lexus LFA – Click above for high-res image gallery We’ve been hearing rumblings about a Lexus GS F for over two years, with the most recent report indicating that the maxed-out super sedan was put on hold until the economic climate reached a balmy 75-degrees. However, the rumormongers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}