To Eagle-Eyed, the new Lexus Sports concept may seem familiar. And I do not mean to those who have their file on many Spy and performance pictures From each of the upcoming and race versions. This new car – which we and others call from LFR – aims at LC and LFA, for sure, but also the concept of electric sport from 2021.
But this new car will have a gas power. So what happened to EV?
The Lexus Sports Electrification game appeared in December 2021, when Toyota revealed A number of EV concepts. Its long dimensions with short -sized front -sized sides scream, but Lexus, but Lexus was pure EV, with solid state batteries with a group of 435 miles and a mind between 2 and 60 miles per hour.
Since 2021, popular feelings have turned around electric cars. Their growth slows, and many automobile companies –Toyota included– their EV’s ambitions were scalled.
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At that time, Lexus said it would build an EV sports car. “Lexus will develop a sports car of the next generation of battery inherit the taste of driving, or the secret sauce, from the implanted performance by developing LFA,” said Akio Toyua himself.
As of now, the company did not say whether this project was completely canceled. But there is no doubt that the new sports concept uses many of the same design signals as 2021 EV.
The total proportions are the same, but Lexus has specific details forward as well: the large open front income with a division in the center; LFA Anging C-Pillar and Cutaways in the back body; The full light bar at the back. Cut into the cap. Double and more roof.
The two cars are not identical, but they are largely cut from the same fabric.
We know that this new Lexus concept displays a production car that will get a twin Toyota. In 2022, Toyota first appeared Gr GT3 conceptLow race car design, low front engine, contains a largely engine (most likely, V-8). responsible A copy of Lexus confirmed on the road from the car in 2022With the expectation of Lexus to release the United States, and the release of Toyota that strikes other markets.
Lexus asked about the relationship that this new concept has for its predecessor 2021, and we will update if we hear. If you allow us some speculation, it is not difficult to imagine Toyota to cancel the Lexus sports car, as it does not seem to be a market for such a thing.
But with the concept of electric sport, Lexus at least had a good design basis for the internal combustion car that would eventually come. In addition, there is a possibility that the production car is a hybrid road of a kind to compete with new smacks from AMG, Porsche and Corvette.
But at the present time, at least, it seems that the entire Lexus Sports Sports car should wait.
