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    Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit

    Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft

    The All-Acrylic Lexus LFA Looks Cold As Ice

    Behind The $400K Wheel Of The Lexus LFA

    Toyota Cancels 2011 Lexus SC, Considers Ditching 2011 Avalon Too

    Lexus LF-A Crash at Nürburgring Provides First Look At Interior and Engine
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    Image of Clown Shoe Pilot Clown Shoe Pilot
    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    now... will you have to PROVE you own an LFA to get a replacement CF hood prop, or will any schmuck (like me) with several hundred dollars be able to walk into their friendly lexus parts dept and buy one? #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    Gas struts are totally the wrong thing for this car. For one thing, you can't easily make one in carbon fiber. But here's the clincher:

    Gas struts wear out. Just sitting around they slowly lose their charge over time. That's physics, can't change it. And just sitting around, the prop rod keeps on being a prop rod. It weighs about the same as a single gas strut - a carbon fiber one probably weighs less - and right there you've got a weight savings. One prop rod displaces two heavy, fallible gas struts.

    Is a prop rod fallible? Sure. It can rust into nothingness - oops, not this one. It can bend and break under load - oops, you'd have to do something stupid, like bend the car around a phone pole to do that. It can pop out of the catch hole and drop the hood on your head - oops, that's gonna leave a mark. But with $400K invested, you're probably not going to lift the hood outside of your climate-controlled, hermetically sealed, Mafia insured eighteen-space garage. So no wind. The Mafia wouldn't allow it.

    At 88 miles an hour, the two solenoid cases pop out of the Alien intake and start eating the oil coolers. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @Elhigh:

    +1 on the gas struts.

    Nothing like having marginal ones and finding today was the day it was too cool to hold the hood up when a 2 mph breeze touched it.

    /learned not to place hand in hood's travel without a broomstick as a backup hood prop...the hard way #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @Elhigh: I am willing to bet I would have to replace this entire care before I had to replace the gas struts.

    Supercars are NOT reliable.
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    11/05/09

    @Ryanrule: I agree. If made well, gas struts last many, many years. And they are cheap.

    This was done for weight alone. And it passed the cost-benefit analysis algorithm that Toyota doubtless subject the entire car to. #lexuslfa
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    11/05/09

    @brandegee: I cant see how this was done for weight. Look at all the extraneous weight inside the car. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    The Lexus engineering manager is going to be pissed when he finds out what happened to his golf club shaft. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    No gas struts on a 400k car?

    pfft
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    11/04/09

    @Ryanrule: Any car that cost more than $20k shouldn't have a prop rod. That is one of the things that really pissed me off about the wife's Trailblazer, a $34k (sticker) vehicle that uses a damn metal broom stick to hold up the hood. I've driven GM vehicles built from 1973-2004 and it is the only one that can't hold the hood up. Even the lowly G-bodies got proper hood hinges with springs. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    I have not seen a matte black car that I liked. IMO, the awesome cars in this video are unawesome because of the matte black. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @skaycog: I'm personally a fan of the matte black look. Mainly because I can apply it with a rattle can to my freshly ground, previously rusted 1991 civic hatchback.

    Civic dx?

    Is there any other kind, baby? #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @tekamul: It would look better than rust. I like the matte blue on certain cars, like the '34 Ford posted here last evening. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    I guess that looks nice-but if I was buying a 400k car I'd expect a bit higher tec to hold up the hood than the CF version of a broom stick. This is like having forged titanium handles for your hand-cranked windows. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @powermatic: Do you want luxury or performance? Ask an F40 owner why he's pulling a rope to open his door. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @ProstWest: An F40 owner is tugging his rope because he bought and paid for a racing car with license plates, i.e. virtually no human comforts that might sully the power/weight ratio. Plexiglass windows (the early models had sliding door windows), no sound deadening, no carpeting, no power steering or brakes, full racing seats, and etc.-basically no amenities other than AC.

    The LFA is designed for and marketed to someone looking for high performance as well as all the highest-tech and greatest creature comforts that his 400,000.00 can buy. Your analogy is like comparing a Veyron to a Le Mans Prototype. Other than that, it was....perfect. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @powermatic: No, my analogy was like comparing an ultra high performance street car to an ultra high performance street car. Is it perfect to invoke the zenith of Maranello's efforts when discussing a car from the company that brought us the Paseo? Likely not, but let's face it- the Toyota buyer who just left 400 large at the dealership is not checking his own washer fluid. Therefore the engineers made a smart, easy decision and spec'ed the epitome of lightweight engine-bay access technology: the prop rod. Enzo's boys came to the same conclusion, albeit as part of a package that compromised a great deal more than the LFA in areas that actually affect the driver's comfort. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @ProstWest: Please carry on Circular Reasoning.

    vaya con dios #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @powermatic: All right, let me try again, with your gracious encouragement. The car should have a prop rod because it's faster that way. The prospective owner is not negatively impacted by economizing both weight and expenditure in this design area. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit

    Wow. #lexuslfa
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    Image of Pew Pew BOOM Pew Pew BOOM
    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    Somebody starts bootlegging those F stickers and giving them "carbon fiber" look ASAP. It will be in high demand, I tell you. #lexuslfa
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    Image of bzr bzr
    11/04/09

    In reply to Lexus LFA In Matte Black Shows Off Coolest Carbon Fiber Bit
    Carbon fiber hood strut: now coming to a 1996 Corolla DX with spinners in a Pep Boys parking lot near you! #lexuslfa
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    11/04/09

    @bzr: People already put ugly-ass CF-patterned vinyl all over the place. This is nothing new. #lexuslfa
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    11/04/09

    @bzr: Will it come with an external mounting system, so people can still see it when I don't have my hood open? #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09


    @tempesjo: No, you'll have to get the transparent hood for that! Adds madd street cred too, yo. #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @bzr: Hahaha - 3G Eclipse, synonymous with Grand Am GT levels of performance. Show off that 210hp SOHC V6, so exotic! #lexuslfa
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    11/04/09

    @bzr: And a cleaning nightmare! #lexuslfa
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    11/04/09

    @bzr: Wow. The transparent hood would be a great canvas for some frosted glass etching. Maybe "turbo" tastefully etched diagonally across the entire hood?
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    11/04/09

    @tempesjo: dear god no. im not a fan, of transparent hoods. heres an idea, take your regular hood off if you need to show off your engine bay to the world. #lexuslfa
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    Image of tempesjo tempesjo
    11/04/09

    @autocannibal: But your idea wouldn't cost any money, and goes against the whole foundation of this industry, which is tricking people into buying ridiculous "performance upgrades" for their cars. #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to The All-Acrylic Lexus LFA Looks Cold As Ice
    Demand for car-sized freezers in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia has increased by a factor of 20 after the recent news that Toyota are going to produce their new overpriced supercar in limited volumes in ice, and that it is the new "cool" thing to own for Sheikhs and if you didn't have one, you couldn't hang out with the cool kids. #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft
    Gawkernationalisation has recently brought about great change in the content and the style of previous more distinct blogs. Jalopnik would like to formally announce a partnership with Fleshbot to improve the quality of its writing on the subjects of car pornography by injecting fresh innuendos, with the trial starting with great effect at the Tokyo Motor Show.
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    10/26/09

    @Mobius: I liked Gwakernationalisation. ;) #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft
    That transaxle is very much ribbed for pleasure. #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft
    Dammit Ray, children read this blog! Am I gonna have to get Glenn Beck in here? You know if I do he'll never leave! #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft
    Wow Ray, you guys sure have a hard on for Lexus lately. #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    In reply to Stroking The Lexus LFA's Giant Shaft
    This reminds me of an item in my 'Insane things to do if I win the Lottery' file: 'Busa V8, torque tube, Porsche transaxle, Reliant Scimitar. I know, I know, costs as much as a new Ferrari, stupid idea, probably end up with nothing but THE most expensive pile of broken PCH components EVAR, but can you imagine? #lexuslfa
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    10/26/09

    @13thfloorelevator: That is why you comment here. 98% of us could certainly imagine. #lexuslfa
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