For the Eagle-Eyed, the new Lexus Sports concept may look familiar. And I don’t mean those who have presented the many spy photos and views of both the upcoming road and racing versions. This new car – which we and others have called the LFR – OWEs a lot for the LC and LFA, certainly, but also the electrified sports concept from 2021.
But this new car will have gas power. So what happened to the EV?
The Lexus Electrified Sport debuted in December 2021, when Toyota unveiled a number of EV concepts. The long-hood, short-deck relationships are shining at the front of a motorcy factor sports car at the rear drive, but Lexus said this was a pure EV, with Solid-State batteries that promised a range of 435 miles and a sub-second 0-60 MPH Sprint.
However, since 2021 the popular sentiment on electric cars has shifted. Their growth is delayed, and many car manufacturers -Toyota included- You have scaled their EV ambitions back.
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At the time, Lexus said it would build an EV sports car. Akio Toyoda himself said: “Lexus will develop a battery of the next generation EV sports car that inherits the driving or the secret sauce from the performance that is being cultivated through the development of the LFA.”
From now on the company did not say whether it has fully canceled this project. But there is no doubt that the new sports concept uses many of the same design instructions as the 2021 EV.
The total proportions are the same, but Lexus also carried specific details forward: the largely open front intake with a split in the middle; the LFA monkeys C-pilla and cut in the rear bodywork; the light bar over the entire width at the back; the cutaways in the hood; the roof with double bubble; And more.
The two cars are not identical, but they are very very cut from the same cloth.
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We know that this new Lexus concept has an example of a production car that will have a Toyota Twin. In 2022, Toyota debuted the GR GT3 concept, a low-hanging, on the front motor, rear drive Race-Auto design that has a lot of a motorcycle in the front (probably, a Twin-Turbo V-8). An official confirmed a road-going lexus version of the car in 2022, with the Lexus version expected for the US and the Toyota version that hit other markets.
A spokesperson for Lexus refused to comment on what the relationship the two concepts have. If you allow us a bit of speculation, it is not difficult to imagine that Toyota cancels a Lexus EV sport car, because there seems to be no market for something like that.
But with the electrified sports concept, Lexus at least had a good design basis for the sports car for internal combustion that will eventually come. Moreover, there is a possibility that the production road car can be a kind of hybrid to compete with new, electrified offers from AMG, Porsche and Corvette.
But at least it seems that a fully electric Lexus sports car will have to wait.
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