{"id":477223,"date":"2010-03-26T20:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/?p=17721"},"modified":"2010-03-26T20:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T00:50:37","slug":"world-exclusive-2012-lexus-lfa-tested-%e2%80%93-short-take-road-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/477223","title":{"rendered":"World Exclusive! 2012 Lexus LFA Tested \u2013 Short Take Road Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ferrari-like Lexus hits 60 in 3.7 seconds. In other words, the LFA is PDQ.<\/em><\/p>\n

Finally, the yammering and chin-pulling is over. It\u2019s time to see if Lexus\u2019s long-time-coming LFA supercar makes supercar numbers. We\u2019ve strapped on the gear, we\u2019ve burned the gas, and we\u2019ve sorted the data. And, as far as we know, we\u2019re the first to have done so.<\/p>\n

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Proving that it still has plenty of budget, Lexus parent Toyota jetted one of the prototypes of the $375,000 carbon-fiber LFA across the Pacific, put it solo into an enormous truck with enough empty space to hold another six or eight LFA\u2019s, and hauled it to Arizona for us. Toyota\u2019s own Phoenix-area proving ground being closed to visitors and especially closed to media, we went over to the Nissan Technical Center North America\u2019s 3050-acre facility in Stanfield, Arizona, about 40 minutes south of Phoenix, where Nissan happily rents track time to anyone who\u2019s paying.<\/p>\n

There it was, white as an angel\u2019s underwear, the glossy carbon-fiber dash and steering wheel reflecting our curious faces like funhouse mirrors. Many of the 200 or so employees at Nissan, busy getting their new full-size work van ready for market, just stopped and stared.<\/p>\n

Keep Reading:\u00a0World Exclusive! 2012 Lexus LFA Tested – Short Take Road Test<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Ferrari-like Lexus hits 60 in 3.7 seconds. In other words, the LFA is PDQ. Finally, the yammering and chin-pulling is over. It\u2019s time to see if Lexus\u2019s long-time-coming LFA supercar makes supercar numbers. We\u2019ve strapped on the gear, we\u2019ve burned the gas, and we\u2019ve sorted the data. And, as far as we know, we\u2019re the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6416,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477223","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\/6416"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}