Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
It wasn’t appreciated for what it is.
When it came it was incredibly expensive and the performance was average at best for what you were paying. It was also a Lexus, spending that kind of money for a Lexus just didn’t make sense.
Yes, the exhaust note and engine are glorious but this is in an era where you could still buy cars NA supercars for less money.
Now were in a world of more stringent emissions regulations, high revving NA engines are a dying breed, manuals are being dropped and a lot of vehicles all come out with the same configuration. Turbo engine+automatic.
People start looking to the past for cars that offer an experience or even just a drivetrain configuration thats essentially unavailable brand new and things like the LFA get rediscovered and sought after.
The development time was also incredibly long, it had to be redone at some point and by the time it came out all its metrics were basically “last gen” and outdated.