Lexus LFA Supercar's Tech 'Halo' Improving All Products, Says Exec - Motor Authority
The Lexus LFA supercar was a long time coming. and when it appeared on the market in late 2010 as a performance icon for the Lexus brand—years later and far more expensive than originally intended—there was definitely a lot more to this model than chasing Ferrari and Lamborghini. The LFA was only sold for two years, and only 500 were made. Yet it seems that the bigger halo that this model has cast over the brand is still very much alive—in the performance light that it’s cast over the entire lineup, and in what’s been handed down from the tremendous engineering effort that went... “We still get a lot of publicity from that car,” said Mark Templin, vice president for Lexus International, as we caught up with him at the New York Auto Show last week. “The request was a place for our loyal Lexus customers who drove LSs and such to move up to. maybe a $120,000 car and not a $375,000 car. “As we kept developing it, it kept getting better and better—from steel to aluminum and carbon fiber, and more expensive with it,” he recalled. And the influence of that LFA development is spreading through the lineup, Templin promises, in steering and suspension, for instance. “Everything we learned from the LFA is trickling down into every other product in the lineup,” he said. Source: www.motorauthority.com
