TTAC takes you behind the scenes of the Lexus LF-A

Lexus LF-A
The Most Ridiculously Expensive Factory Car

So Mrs. RX450h (D2)(Not mine) went to visit family in China last spring and do the tourist thing that as a native she never got to do. Somewhere shoe shopping she came across an auto show. There was this Toyota or Lexus 2dr model she thought was cute like a Z4 or Z8 but not a convertible. So on her return I get the task of figuring out what it is she saw. The upcoming Toyota/Subaru/Scion? Nope not it. Eliminated all the Toyota and Lexus models on the website down to the future car link. You don't mean this one do you? (D2)Yes that's it I want one of those, how much are they? Pause as all the guys from the kitchen and some regulars drool at the picture on my computer. Yeah it's like 380. (D2)What a month? That's not to bad. No I mean $380,000 and I don't think any of could drive it especially here on WV roads.

So Friday I drive (as D3)the 450h to service in Pittsburgh with Mr. Rx450h (D1). In the showroom with all of your Grandfathers Oldsmobile/Lexus models there is this locked white 2dr sport model that doesn't fit in. D1 is already checking it out. To much plastic and flimsy chicken wire like grills he says. What Lexus is this? It's the one your wife saw in China and that's not plastic it's carbon fiber and maybe titanium. (D1) There is no sticker? How much is it? It's like 6 figure something the sticker is in the back window. (D1) Oh my God that's more than our house!

Seriously going to a Lexus dealer is like going to a senior center. Except for the amigos in the shop and 30 something D1 everybody else looked older the me (50). To bad because the IS AWD model was really nice and competitively priced. Don't care for the CT would just as soon have the Prius 5.

By the way I averaged 29 mpg in the 450h for the 200 mile mostly highway round trip just letting it do it thing. 30f and windy outside. 72f and heated seats inside. Don't think to many Lexus hybrid owners think or care about how the windows get defogged or if, when, or why the ICE starts up. "For 40k to 60k I paid I'm going to be comfortable".

 

D1, D2, and D3 are the driver seat position memory buttons in the 450h. I was previously D3 in the 13 mpg ave. LX560 SUV tank they had. Yes great service from the Lexus dealer always.