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Originally Posted by DGthe3
This car would be more impressive if they had released it 5 years ago. But alot has changed since then. Even the 'F1 derived engine' is outdated. F1 has since switched over to V8's and Toyota has pulled out of F1.
And it doesn't weigh 3800 lbs. Its 3263-3483 lbs (from http://www.lexus-lfa.com/), but that is still a little high given how much they're bragging about the usage of weight saving carbon fibre and aluminum. |
That weight is actually very impressive in this day and age because it has a large engine, luxury items like navigation and other electronics, sound deadening, heated power seats, etc, and they have all the "safety" features of any other Lexus included, such as knee and seatbelt airbags and stuff.
Some things that make the Lotus Elise and Exige so light is that barely the size of a Mini Cooper, they have little 4 cylinder engines, no power steering, race seats, no radio, and safety wise they have the federal minimum which is just driver and passenger airbags. And even with that they still weigh around 2k lbs.