Tricky bastards

That’s retarded. So you can lease one, rag it out then hand it back to them? Good plan Toyota…morons.

toyota…just come out with the truth and stop all the BS.
We only made 500 because we don’t even know if we can sell that many.
We are leasing then because we know that 375K is to much for this car.

Who the hell do they think would pay more than the already ridiculous asking price to begin with?

Like you honestly care, Road_AMS.

You couldn’t afford one anyway.

But it is strange, but then DODGE had the same problems withe ht VIPER when they first rolled that out. A $55K car being sold for $90K+ by Dealers and CHRYSLER not seeing a dime of it. Now the mark up is built in.

TOYOTA has their own learning to do with a car that costs just under $400K. But I think what they are trying to do is gather technical information based on actual usage of the car. This is something most Supercar makers don’t do. They just build a really small number of really fast, really fancy, really expensive cars and don’t keep an eye on them the see how they are holding up.

This way Toyota can at least take a look at the car once every few months to a year to see how it is doing and see what they can do better in the future. Something that can’t happen if the cars are all snapped up by collectors and speculators and never driven.

$0 down, $299 per month, 27 month lease. I’ll take it.

Blakkarr…you know nothing about me and I know nothing about you. One thing I do know is that I’m not some a$$hole that assumes how much money a person makes. Technically, I could afford that car…but I’d have to sell my house. Thanks for being a dickhead though…

Leasing a supercar…….. has that ever happened before?

at least its road legal and you get to take it home

cough cough ferrari fxx cough cough

Lease only? I’d like to see where they set this residual value…..

Road_AMS,

Poor thing. I burst your little bubble. You can’t afford it, so just say so and stop pretending.

You Douchebag.

could be that the engine in more race car then it should be and after two years it will need to be rebuilt, and this is Toyota’s way of making sure it is rebuild with out having it break on it owners by not letting them own if for long.

And I doubt that ANYONE on this board could afford to purchase or lease this car. We’re car fanatics, not plastic surgeons.

hmmm… well it seems like if you really want one , you can still buy it, you just have to lease it for 2 years first… if you factor in depreciation it will prbably be the same thing, if not a better deal if they are subsidizing some of it ( not quite likely)… so it really is probably not a big deal for the true non-biased enthusiast of THIS car… (not an investor, aka dealer, aka theif, or “automotive entreprenuer”…)

Auto X: Enzo was leased too.

Blakkarr…you’re right…I’m crying right now. You are the lord of the LLN blogs…which is like being the smartest retard on earth. Good job faggot.

production starts in Dec 2010? and yep ferrari has done it before

i heavily doubt toyota have some technology. toyota never won any single motor sports. see their F1 results.

last time a car offered this kind of exclusivity, technology, and performance it was called a Ferrari Enzo and it started at 675K, so please don’t let your pea sized brain get in the way of facts 0-60 because at 375K this car is a bargain for people who have the money to throw around.

The rotary weaver used to make the carbon fiber body of this car is owned by toyota, of which there are only two in existence in the entire world. toyota initially only planned to sell the lfa to hand selected people, and only those who will drive this car rather than buy and park it in their garage. i don’t care for the lease option, but other supercars have used it too.

What kind of sense does that make?

Most of these “supercars” are seen as an investment opportunity and are purchased merely to sit in garages or collections. How is that going to work on a lease?

I think Lexus shot themselves in the foot with this one.

daiso: NASCAR

RaineMan: Because their feet are bullet proof, they don’t have to car much. lolz

^^ you obviously didn’t read or get the article above did you. read blakkar’s first statement.

*RaineMan

Superman… is Toyota going to screen the potential leases and see if people are actually going to drive the car?

If they wanted “research” they would have been better off handing the cars off to a few select SCCA teams to race.

I guess toyota knows this car will never be a collectors item. This is a way that they can control sales, and not worry about the longevity of the vehicle. Will the LFA come standard with zip ties, or is that an option ? And what will be the maintance on those zip ties, 24 months, or 36,000 miles ?

I will lease this puppy and sublease it to others for much higher, in 2 years I will walk away with a small fortune, thank you Toyota.

Lease? Yeah. Because nobody is gonna pay 300K for a f@#$ing Lexus when I can get a Ferrari or Lamborghini for 100K cheaper.

alsvw yes it will come with zip ties so it can tie your ass to one of its three tailpipes and do circles around a vw factory, or a vette, while you cry in pain as it blows hot smoke right into your a-hole.

There are a sh*t load of rich people in the world…..obviously if you complain about the price you cant afford it. Some guy paid 1 million for a license plate, another 400k for Micheal Jackson’s glove….i think they can afford the LFA

Auto X – Many if not most supercars are not purchased, but leased or rented.

For once I think Toyota’s done the right thing. Although they could just do what Nissan did with the GT-R and void the warranty if you turn around and sell it. Refuse to service the damn thing.

Smart, this beast belongs out on the road and not just in some old rich man’s gallery garage. Can’t wait to hear and see one

I actually like what they did! I remember when the R8 first came out only to be resold by those bastards who only bought them to resell at a higher price.

SUPERMAN is a homosexual, he is putting ass and hole along with this lexus in the same sentance. Dude, maybe your on the wrong site.

I kind of like the whole supply and demand thing in the United States. So I do not like the whole lease business. But, this lease is going to be over $10,000 a month. Not including insurance that may even be more then a Ferrari. So just hold your horses, not a lot of people on this site will be able to lease this zip tied jap supermobile.

^^^ hahaha I pushed your buttons didnt I

dude you forgot to add alsvw-zip-tied-ass-riding jap supermobile. yee-haw.

A friend of mine near Lake Constance is well connected in F1 circles and thru it is well connected to the major supercar manufacturers. He uses his connections to buy supercars early on for targeted final purchasers mostly in the mid-east and east asia. He usually must hold them in his name for a specified time but they get to the final buyers well before this and he gets a mighty mark-up.

Believe me – most true supercars are bought and not leased. The may just be garage queens and not driven much, but bought they are.

i still can’t believe how ugly this thing is , even for a Japanese car.

“Lexus announced on Monday that it will only be leasing the six-figure super coupe.”

“customers will be able to buy the 552 horsepower supercar at any Lexus dealership.”

so which is it?

My question is why would you buy this over a Lamborghini Gallardo or Ferrari F430 Scuderia? I thought Lexus was going to build a R-8 contender but this will be another pointless car that has a limited production like the Toyota Celica Supra! People don’t remember the Supra! My point is Toyota needs to think long term and build something that will last!

How much do you want to bet there is a large penalty clause in the lease for driving it on a race track, which the on board GPS will faithfully record??????

LOL, you really can’t make this **** up

500 units
$375,000
…and you can’t even buy it, not that anyone with a brain will

Lawnchair your name certainly fits your intellect. another low iq hillbillly that can’t or won’t read/research or develop some critical thinking skills.

*Office meeting*
Manager: Well guys, its been a long and agonizing 10 or 12 years but we finally built the Lexus super car.
Lead designer: Great work team, hopefully Critereon games doesn’t sue us for stealing design cues from cars in their video-games.
Manager: No no, I think we butchered the design enough to hide any traces
Marketing manager: Now the question arises…how do we put this car out there…after all, it is still just a Toyota…
Marketing manager: I GOT IT!!! Lets give it an outrageous price tag so all the media hypes around Toy—er…Lexus going for the stars!
Manager: But people are going to realize its not as good as a Ferrari or Lamborghini
Marketing manager: Don’t underestimate consumers stupidity….we just re badged a ****ing Prius and Camry, whos going to stop us? Acura? Infiniti? LOLZ
Marketing manager: …and then when the idea of a $350,000 lexus settles, we tell people
Manager: THEY CAN’T BUY IT!
Marketing manager: No…well….hm, not a bad idea…

Smokin
Your name fits the bill, perfectly

Lexus protecting their investment, and customers
Good move, Lexus
Would definitely cause a second global recession if released into the hards of Dr Evil!
DrFill

I think it is a great plan. I believe, and DrFull can correct me, that most of Lexus’s are leased anyway. I don’t think Lexus wants to compete with Ferrari and Lambo and they probably can’t. However, lease is a great idea. You lease your car with option to buy and if you want to buy it you buy it. There is no uniform price on cars coming off lease, therefore there is no real worries about value of 400K investment. Even rich don’t like to piss money away.

nobody will buy or lease the lfa? sometimes you guys really are full-on retarded…the lease sounds like a good plan, and providing an LFA-specific maintenance crew that’ll go on location is also a good way to handle properly maintaining the things…all the “X$ for a toyota” and “it’s so ugly blah blah” comments are missing the point…the performance and exclusivity should pretty much guarantee these cars won’t be sitting on the lot waiting for a buyer…there are plenty of ugly-as-sin supercars that sell just fine…

I just spoke to a lexus sales monkey. He and his sales manager said no one will spend over $300,000 for a Lexus. They have to offer it as a lease to get rid of the cars. There has only been a hand full of buyers that put down money to pre order the car nation wide. He said only one person in Florida put down money to pre order the car. And that was a PGA tour player. The LFA is going to a great car. But, it is still a f-ing toyota. And who the **** cars about toyota as a super car. This car, is just a trophy for the exects at toyodaa.

And Superman, you still sound like a homo.

You care
That’s why you’re here posting!

Imagine if you were somebody?
Or know somebody?

Alright……..
None of us have that much imagination

BTW, this car isn’t getting great press
It’s publicity is EPIC

None of you are fit to OWN the LF-A
You have TO EARN IT!
LOL
DrFill

My name fits the bill perfectly? Well yeah, my C4S comes with 305 wide tires….

i’d lease it and take it to Jiffy Lube just for kicks….

imagine unintend acceleration in this thing…2yr lease trial might not be so bad after all

@Dr Full of it, who cares whether or not people end up leasing 500 of these things because apparently they can’t sell 500. I’m sure Ferrari and Lambo have no problem selling 500 cars. The point here is that this car is a Solara on crack and ecstasy with a shot of jack Daniels for good measure!

Keep that dream alive, Zesty
Someday Honda/Acura will have the guts to be great
Someday………
DrFill

That’s a low blow Dr. Fill, you know I was disappointed when Acura dropped the NSX project! Let’s not get personal here!

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb.

@DrFill Toyota has had a 12 year absence on being able to produce anything entertaining to drive. Honda has only been out of the game since 2005. I think it’s a little too early for a Toyota fan to be picking on Honda.

And even if you want to move down market in the fun category to something a 4 year old would find entertaining to drive. The S2000 only died in 2008 whereas the Celica GTS died in 2005 and between the two I’d take a kick in the mouth over the inappropriately geared Celica GTS.

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L ee x d SUX!