Lexus ruined the LF-A.......
 

How can you have a concept that is beautiful, balanced, somewhat different and slightly unique in design.....

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AND THEN you decide to ruin the style and the flow (probably by listening to some company jackass) and you now want to sell us this.......

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Whoever you are, you ruined it.....

i honstly dont see how the designed was ruined? i can see what they changed but a lot carried over and it still looks good, the only thing that bothers me about the car is the hood gap between the bumper.

i agree with the OP

It's just an updated Supra... Lexus stole the Supra and put lines on it

i still think its pretty good ... not my taste but still good ... i do however see what the op means they did loose alot of the curves and bulges that made the car way sexier

Yes, i agree with that, it is more like a Supra with exotic features and less like a exotice super car, although it has that kind of performance out of the box. I am guessing that those sexy lines that were lost would have made the car to expensive or dificult to build?

P.S. That is a hella expensive Supra!

I think its sexy still either way. Hmm I wonder what the price tag will be :)

Super Sexy car!
I don't think it's ruined

I think both versions look good with the production version edging out the concept by a slight margin

not sure if you're just being sarcastic but try on $375K

Guess i'm in the minority here. :dunno:

yah the 4th thread about this in two days,,,, yahhhhh

Who exactly did Lexus "steal" the supra from... themselves?

I think the reason is probably that you have very little comprehension of what it takes to bring a concept to a legal road going car for sale all over the world.

I think the nose looks...well, cheap (for its pricetag). The front looks like the concept had sex with a Mazdaspeed RX-8, which would be fine if the bastard wasn't $380k. It should have had a Toyota badge, with a turbo inline 6 under the hood named a Supra, sold for the masses. Hell, a current Supra would even be successful in the 95k-110k price range, and turned a profit in even this economy.

Are you serious? that's insane looking your crazy

I don't know why I keep thinking "Lexus Chick-Fil-A" when I hear that name. Guess I'm hungry.

It's not ruined.
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cool either way but the car sucks in the new need for speed shift. ha ha ha

to be honest, i hate the concept and the production vehicle.. there just seem to be too many lines going in too many different directions.

gonna have to agree..
though i didn't really like the concept to start with..

IMO theres very little finess!

Another comment from blueeyes with negative undertone, big surprise :rolleyes:
Please tell me exactly what had to be changed style wise to make the concept road legal?


They are producing a +350k market car with 500 buyers, you do not need to alter a concept (or even produce one for that matter.) I'm happy for lexus taking a chance and going full tilt into an exotic segment car, but personally i cannot see choosing this over some of the more grounded exotic companys, especially for the price.

If you look at the concept vehicle, you see something new (at least from a Toyota/Lexus standpoint). The designers had lowing lines and something that could actually be production worthy for the pricetag they are looking at. Competing possibly with Aston Martin or Bugatti.

However, the "release candidate" seems to imply that upper management made the decision to take the Supra body, update it with Nissan 370Z headlights (slightly altered, of course), give it great gobs of horsepower, and make it compete with the Infinit G37, Corvette, and GT-R crowd -- luxury, performance, and power... in an "affordable" package.

That's not what I was asking... Lexus couldn't have "stolen" the supra design from anyone... they own it already. I was pointing out a technicality, not trying to argue the basis of the design. I'm already aware the designers implemented features of the supra.