Lexus Announces LF-A Super Car to contest 24 Hours Nurburgring

it will have a lot to live up to if it wants to beat the GTR. personally i hope it doesnt.

I don't think the Germans will let a couple of Jap cars win on their home turf expect a fair fight from the german brands.

to asif: I hope it does :-) Any in any case, I hope the Japanese car makers will beat the German rivals...

the japanese have already beaten them!!! dont get me wrong i admire lexus. i just want nissan to be out in front on this one...

I dont see where this car can beat the GTR anyway I like this one too

I don't think Audi will fall for this ...

we should hope these cars beat their german rivals just like they did during the supra/300zx days. its time the german cars manufacturers up the anti in terms of tech and not just horsepower.

I have worked for BMW and Audi (currently). The Germans are light years ahead when it comes to engineering, the Japs simply copy there technology. Japanese cars lack sould and generally are imitations of true German sports cars. That is why Audi has been so dominant at real world driving races and BMW is quickly climbing in F1....where are your Jap cars now??

There is a true i both of what you guys are argue about. We all know that Germans have the need to have everything new every time they come out with new model which has plus and minus to it. Plus is that technology progresses which is great from future point of view but on minus side everything new must be tested for reliablity. If you don't like German cars you won't have a good japanese car. Even if Japps don't come out with many new things we all know they can improve on anything they can. At the end saying "you get what you paid for never fails". If you have maney you won't care if your car breaks down I guess.

Joe_Limon......Laping Nurburgring, alone, doesnt prove anything......Lets see them win at Lemas (every year) even the Americans dominate with the Corvette....japanese......well they make nice little tin cans that replicate, like a cheap Rolex knockoff what a german car does. I would rather have a broken down BMW then a relaible boring Lexus.

I don't understand why we get into these discussions about japanese cars being inferior to German cars. I just want to say PERCEPTION IS REALITY. German this, Japanese cars that. Toyota could win every race for the next two years and people who love german cars will still say that japanese cars suck. and the same for german cars. now you can't discredit either company because if you stay up on your racing you would know that the SpeedSource Mazda RX-8 won the GT Class at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in which it competes with Porsche, Corvette's and BMW's. Then you have people like Pierre Kleinubing from RealTime Racing who races an Acura TSX in the SPEED Touring Challenge who goes up against Audi's, and BMW's and has won. Again I love both lets just make sure we deal with facts.