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The Lexus LFA

June 6th, 2011 Filed under: Lexus

The Lexus LFA is a two-seat exotic sports coupe produced by Lexus as a concept car, ”halo” vehicle, racing prototype, and production model. Lexus claims multiple justifications for the LFA program. The car, it says, casts a halo over the Lexus F line of performance machines. It’s also a way for Toyota to explore new technologies, particularly carbon-fiber construction. And since Lexus says it will be selective about whom it will sell to—car collectors and high-profile individuals who use the car rather than park it—the LFA should raise the cachet of the brand as a whole. Take the carbon fiber, for instance. To make the LFA’s, Toyota created one of only two circular looms in the entire world, then used it to simultaneously weave one tube of carbon inside another. They built this system just to make the A-pillars on the car.