It appears that the mysterious high-performance Lexus LS spied earlier this week lapping the Nürburgring isn’t a development prototype for an LS-F. Instead, its a special variant called the LS TMG Edition that packs a 641 horsepower wallop under its vented hood.
The name of the most potent LS stands for Toyota Motorsport GmbH, and apparently the motorsport division was responsible for the development of the car.
According to a spec sheet nabbed by Auto Guide, the LS TMG Edition will utilize a 5.0-liter motor with a screaming 9,000 rpm redline that is capable of 524 lb-ft of torque to go along with its 641 ponies. Zero-to-60 will come in a scant 4.2 seconds, and the car won’t stop accelerating until it reaches nearly 200 mph.
Weight is listed at about 4,500 pounds, or about 150 pounds more portly than a base LS 460, while the car puts its considerable power to ground with massive 345 millimeter-wide rear tires.
What the spec sheet didn’t specify was exactly what type of engine was putting down those power figures, but a turbocharged or supercharged variant of the IS-F’s V8 or an enlarged version of the LFA’s V10 are the most plausible possibilities.
No word on whether the LS GTE Edition is intended to be a show car, a one-off special or an actual production vehicle, but it does seem to signal that Lexus is taking performance a little more seriously these days.
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1.’Lexus LS-F “TMG…’ view
