This Lexus LFA with ‘High Miles’ is still ridiculously expensive – Jalopnik

The Lexus LFA is a bit of a hard car to pin. It had an absolutely glorious naturally extracted 4.8-liter V10 that made 552 hp and yielded up to 9,500 rpm, but even at that time it did not perform exactly better than the competition. Many other supercars had better acceleration, were faster on the circuit or costs less money. And yet it was also a technical miracle and only 500 were once built. So although they are not as rare as some other cars, it is still remarkable when someone is for sale, such as the Lexus LFA 2012 Currently mentioned on Bring A Trailer.

With white paint and a black-red interior, this specific LFA is not exactly the most exciting specification, at least as far as supercars go. Yet the number 205 of only 500 LFAs has ever been produced, and although it may not pull the kind of crowds on the street that you could put on with a flashy Ferrari or Lamborghini, it is still an incredibly special car. I mean, the engine is said to be in six tenths of a second from stationary to Redline. And because it is a lexus, it is probably better built than any Italian Supercar.

The only problem here is the price. This auction has seven days left at the time of writing, and offering is already a maximum of $ 800,000. No, not $ 80,000. Not $ 180,000. Eight hundred thousand American dollars. With almost every statistics, that is an absolutely absurd amount to spend on a car. And yet, that is apparently what these cars are worth nowadays. Even if you sold half of your liver, a kidney and a few other organs that you think without, you would probably not even come close to collecting enough money to buy one.

Given that we are talking about a supercar that is currently almost 15 years old, the 4,400 miles on this LFA is quite low. Doing fast math, that comes to just about 300 miles a year, which is actually nothing. We barely talk more than 25 miles a month. If you are not the type of person that regularly keeps Lexus LFA sales, it would even be understandable if you assumed that the early bid of $ 800,000 was because this is a particularly low mileage.

Oh no. Not least. In fact even just Recent revision of a trailer auctions The 4,400-Mile LFA actually has many kilometers for an LFA. So far, taking a trailer has actually mentioned three other LFAs, one with 952 miles, another with 2,100 miles and a third with 3,800 miles. To find an LFA with a higher mile on BAT, you actually have to go all the way back to 2021, when an LFA of 7,000 miles for $ 725,000 was sold. That was also more than 20 auctions ago, which certainly not every LFA was made, but considering how few have ever been built, it is definitely a good part of them.

You can be sure Find some LFA owners online Who regularly drives their car and puts it on it really miles on it, but those people also seem to be the exception, instead of the rule. Usually it seems that these owners just don’t drive their car. No, it is not exactly news that rich collectors buy expensive cars and then do not drive them, but at the same time you would think that if a rare supercar were driven, it would be the lexus that was built around an absolutely glorious V10. The fact that it is not the case can be almost as depressing as the realization that LFAs are almost a million dollars of cars, while they are with the Nurburgring package Closure of $ 2 million.