{"id":22580,"date":"2011-09-12T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T11:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=22580"},"modified":"2022-06-28T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T13:45:49","slug":"lexus-lfa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/lexus-lfa-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexus LFA crowned King of the ‘Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For any of you who didn’t follow last Friday’s tweet, we thought this footage is more than worthy of a daily post. Especially as the car is so brutally lovely.<\/p>\n

Lexus’s LFA N\u00fcrburgring Edition has just run the ‘ring in 7:14 at the hands of driver Akira Iida.<\/p>\n

This is quickest time<\/a> from a mainstream carmaker and beats the previous record, set by a Porsche 911 GT2 RS, by four seconds.<\/p>\n

Obviously this is a tweaked version of the LFA, which will cost you \u00a355,000 more than the ‘bog standard’ (!) \u00a3345,000 LFA.<\/p>\n

Apart from general record breaking kudos, for that extra money you get a bunch of aerodynamic carbon-fibre add-ons, including a jutting front spoiler, fins ahead of the front wheel and a massive rear wing.<\/p>\n

This downforce-heavy package is counteracted by a set of tuning tweaks that squeeze 562bhp out of the 4.8-litre V10. That\u2019s 10bhp more than in the standard car.<\/p>\n

There’s reworked suspension too that slings the body 10mm lower than the standard LFA.<\/p>\n

You could of course score a very nice nearly new 911 with the difference..but hey, we’re in the world of automotive fantasy here, so you might as well just sit back and mind drive a very hairy (but remarkably smooth) seven minutes.<\/p>\n