Lexus Sport Concept Teases the Next Great LFA Successor
This concept is looking much more production-ready—and we are ready for it.
Lexus dropped a bombshell Friday morning with the reveal of the Sport Concept at—where else?—Monterey Car Week. That nicely simple name was accompanied by a three-sentence press release, providing almost no information on the car itself other than that it "signals the way forward for Lexus design." We see the brand's checkmark LED light signature in those stacked headlights, and definite LC and LFA vibes from its low-slung, two-door shape. The tail has a pop-up spoiler like its predecessors, a full-width taillight treatment that incorporates the Lexus wordmark and stretches down around LFA-aping openings, and a positively enormous diffuser. It's striking, that's for sure.
Would the eventual production model fall closer to the big, beautiful, grand tourer LC or the elite sports car feel of the LFA? It's too early to say. This looks like an evolution of the Electrified Sport Concept, and based on it dropping that first third of its name, we suspect there's some level of ICE powertrain under that long hood. The Sport Concept is also likely related to the Toyota GT Concept that hustled up Goodwood last month. Rumors persist of a twin-turbo V8, which was the frontrunner for a long-running LC F development program before that car was ultimately shelved.
Not one, but two high-powered sports coupes with LFA DNA? Yep, sign us up.
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Kyle began his automotive obsession before he even started school, courtesy of a remote control Porsche and various LEGO sets. He later studied advertising and graphic design at Humber College, which led him to writing about cars (both real and digital). He is now a proud member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada (AJAC), where he was the Journalist of the Year runner-up for 2021.
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SO LFA base price was $375,000 back in 2010, So......15 years later it will be ??????(500k ?)
Not impressed. With today's technology it is relatively easy to produce a "sporting car" for the "one percenters" if you throw enough money at your concept of a solution. Try building a decent sport's car for $35k and I'll stop ignoring your press releases.