Lexus LFA Nürburgring Edition achieves... 7:14.

[inF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wVb5QkZiQ

4th best following Radical's and Apollo S.

[RXBG]

are the GTR forums on fire yet?

[Ruergard]

are the GTR forums on fire yet?

No no, Lexus are cheating! Can't you see..? :D

Oh btw, the LFA knocked the 599 GTO in the last EVO magazine as well..

[RXBG]

No no, Lexus are cheating! Can't you see..? :D

Oh btw, the LFA knocked the 599 GTO in the last EVO magazine as well..

no GTR owner can argue Lexus' claim if they also believe the GTR's claimed ring time. live by the sword, die by the sword. same goes for porsche and their GT2 RS.

[Z07]

That's about what one would have expected form a £400k car all along. Doesn't excuse the base model's performance though - that's had some shockingly poor times, mostly way worse than a GTR.

This is a special edition LFA which has finally beaten a GTR (shopping version) time ran in the damp with harder tyres. Wait and see what an R35 GTR Z-Tune will do.

Good to see that the NR Edition doesn't suck balls like the standard model though.

[chewym]

That's about what one would have expected form a £400k car all along. Doesn't excuse the base model's performance though - that's had some shockingly poor times, mostly way worse than a GTR.

This is a special edition LFA which has finally beaten a GTR (shopping version) time ran in the damp with harder tyres. Wait and see what an R35 GTR Z-Tune will do.

Good to see that the NR Edition doesn't suck balls like the standard model though.

Agreed, I am not a fan of the manufacturers posting these times that aren't varified by a third party (Nissan/Porsche/Cadillac and so on) As you say the LFA hasn't outperformed its competiton on other circuits. Here is the latest track comparison where the regular LFA posts the say time as the R8 GT and is slower than the 458 and the Corvette Z06.

http://www.motortrend.com/features/performance/1109_2011_motor_trend_best_drivers_car/

Here are the factors at play here in my opinion:

The LFA works better at high speed because of aerodynamics and therefore it does better at a track like the Nurburgrind (correct me if that's wrong) Or the LFA in general and the NR package is the result of it being a one track pony with 3 years of focusing on the Nurburgring and the LFA is not the track monster that this time would indicate. I know that on different trakcs one car might be quicker than the other and the opposite true on another but it would be interesting to roundup all of the track tests with the LFA and see how it compares to the competiton in tests from different magazines.

[Z07]

Exactly, add downforce to any car and its 'ring time improves. Not exactly magic. Lexus wants credit for missing the Gumpert Apollo's time by 3s? Screw them and their slow ass car with aero mods.

A slow ass car with aero mods is still a slow ass car.

[Z07]

Well that was short-lived:

http://jalopnik.com/5840489/dodge-viper-acr-sets-new-nurburgring-lap-time-of-712and-some-change



Dodge Viper ACR sets new Nürburgring lap time of 7:12…and some change


It's amusing that they run a car with cup tyres and 1000lbs of downforce but imply that it's unfair to compare their car to a Gumpert, which ran on PS2s.