This just in; we just found out that a convertible version of the Lexus LFA supercar made an unsuspected and very surprising debut at the D1GP Kick Off Drift event on the sidelines of the Tokyo Auto Salon 2012 outside the Makuhari Messe convention center.
Details remain extremely thin for now but we'll be searching for more information and pass it on as soon as we receive it. That said, we don't know yet if it's a one-off custom creation, a Lexus prototype or the first of a limited production series to be released onto the market.
The white-colored LFA convertible with the red interior featured a carbon fiber-dressed rollbar behind the front seats. It's a fully functional model as the unnamed driver demonstrated some drifting skills at the event.
More to come so stay tuned. For now, follow the jump to see the car in the video
13 Comments:
Amazing, the LFA becomes a convertible.
This probably one -off car has to be worth a fortune. Pretty cool that they would allow this type of display.
I have a pretty strong feeling this will end up in some of our garages.
That driver must be Akira Iida.
Drifting is such a redneck event.
Drag racing is more red neck then drifting as drifting is from Japan..
WOW L-FA CONVERT!
In drifting, a drunk crowd cheering at a drift can determine a winner.
You can't get more redneck than that.
At least in drag racing a car has to break a beam 402m away to determine a winner.
Drifting requires driver skill... drag requires engine power....yes thats right only Engine power..no driver skills... no car dynamics.... no engineering. Even a drunk crowd is good enough to recognize that.
I going to drag on my Vacuum cleaner.
Bullshit drifitng requires skill. Judges can be paid off and booze and cheap at sporting events. Throw on a pair of pink tires and smoke will really impress the feckless and naive into thinking it's "skillful".
No matter how hard a crowd cheers at a drag race, the above (which may I remind you have already listed AND written off) determines a winner, as in every other motorsports race.
From point A and the point B; the winner is who gets there first irrespective it's a straight on a dragstrip or a curves with elevational changes on a circut. That alone makes racing racing!
Drifting, by defination, isn't even a race. It's a judge arbitrarily saying to himself "that looked cool" and then deciding a winner. NOWHERE does the endless painstaking and backbreaking hours spent labouriously engineering a powertrain pay off in drifting. It only pays off in racing and has done so for over a century.
You deride displays of power as being without any engineering prowess. Say that to the M3, and then tell me how the M3 got it's fame.
I'll give you a hint, it wasn't with the rednecks at the drift track.
Absolutely agree with 3dposse... and Blarg! rename your id as blah!
To keep drifting on a curve at a length of time.....ta-daa.... requires driving skill my friend, also the dynamics and how the car is tuned for that purpose helps. you talk like M3 is the most powerful car in the world. A Tractor fitted with a rocket will win against an M3 in a draaag race.
By that standard, a tractor with a rocket could win at drifting as well.
Furthermore, everyone knows the M3 isn't the most powerful car in the world. My point was that because its engineering and it's success at racing the world over (SANS drifitng) has made it into the gold standard it is today.
You can keep the surly drunks, blue colar ricers, and your rednecks for your drifting events; none of them will learn anything at the end of it anyway.
A tractor fitted with a rocket will win a roll over contest if tries to drift.
and M3 becomes gold standard by media propaganda. Isn't that so hollow?
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