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• Requiem for a Dream Machine: The Lexus LFA’s Fathers Reflect on Its Life [Video]

  In Fast Forward / By Tom Anderson / 20 March 2013

  

  For fans of Japanese supercars, December 12, 2012 can easily be called the Day the Music Died. It was on that day that Lexus completed the 500^th – and last – LFA. However, a few weeks before that rather somber occasion, the crew of MotorTrend’s YouTube channel traveled to Japan to visit the LFA factory and document the building of the last handful of cars. More importantly, they interviewed the men who played pivotal roles in the short, glorious life of the most extreme production car ever to come out of all of Toyota, much less its Lexus division.

  As the LFA’s guardians explain, the LFA isn’t like other supercars…which was their intent. Moreover, it’s proudly Japanese in its construction, design, and overall ethos. It is a shrieking, atmo-V10-hearted siren that works with its surroundings, not against them. We know, we know: It’s ate up with computer, has neither a proper manual transmission or a dual-clutch automatic, and was made by the company that brings the world vehicles that are among the leading triggers of adult-onset narcolepsy. But here’s the thing, kids: The Lexus LFA was a classic when it was in production, and will only become more classic with the passage of time. Those of you who dispute this can kindly go slather your tongues with wasabi.

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• DAMD LFT-86: Where Toyota GT86 and Lexus LFA Collide

  In Tuning / By Freddy Chen / 28 January 2013

  

  More often than not, making cheap cars look like expensive exotics is an exercise in failure. No matter what you may do to your C4 Corvette, SW20 MR2, or Pontiac Fiero, it will never have quite the same class as the Ferrari or Lamborghini you are attempting to duplicate. So when we heard that Japan-based Dream Automotive Development & Design (DAMD) Style Effects had produced an LFA bodykit for the Toyota GT86/Scion FR-S, oh how we laughed and laughed – until we actually saw the creation itself.

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• Event Coverage: Toyotafest 2012 T.O.R.C. Part I

  In Car Events / By Freddy Chen / 8 May 2012

  

  You’ll hear a lot of words when it comes to describing Toyota and their respective sub-divisions Lexus and Scion. Reliable. Comfortable. Beige. Durable. Fuel-efficient. Quiet. Dull. Beige. Rarely do you hear words like awesome, powerful, exciting, or even fast. However, the people who spout the former are either haters or uninformed. As one of the premier automotive powers in the world, Toyota is the equivalent of one Dr. Bruce Banner. Calm and unassuming until it [Toyota] feels the need for speed, Toyota has demonstrated time and time again that when it wants to, it can and will, make machines that’ll tear your face off. The annual Toyotafest held in Long Beach, organized and held by the Toyota Owner’s and Restorer’s Club (or T.O.R.C.), is a celebration of those machines and then some.

  As a longtime fan of the brand, I owe a lot to Toyota from where I am today. It was a Toyota that chauffeured my family and I around for the majority of my childhood and teenage years. It was a blazing orange Toyota that got me into the car scene into the first place. And today, by my hard-earned choice, it is a Toyota that zips me through and around the mean streets of SoCal, one traffic jam at a time. Needless to say, I was pumped for this year’s Toyotafest and wouldn’t attend it like the clueless spanner I was last year (forgetting to charge my camera). Commence the coverage.

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