{"id":1821688,"date":"2026-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1821688"},"modified":"2026-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:00:00","slug":"bye-bye-v10-hello-solid-state-the-lexus-lfa-will-return-as-a-cutting-edge-bev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1821688","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye V10, hello solid state: the Lexus LFA will return as a cutting edge BEV"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And so to the third part of what Toyota is calling \u2018The Trinity\u2019: after the GR GT<\/a> and the GT GT3 comes this Lexus LFA Concept. The car previously known as the Lexus Sports Concept<\/a> in what was probably the worst kept secret in… well, ever. There\u2019s also been confirmation that the car is a fully battery powered vehicle, again confirming the pretty obvious lines of speculation and inflaming the V10 enthusiast portion of the internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This will become the car that actually carries the LFA badge, while the GR GT<\/a> feels like the more immediate physical manifestation. Toyota\u2019s basically been heavily pregnant with various secrets, and we\u2019ve got non-identical twins. Or triplets if you count the GT3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So how has the endless \u2018concept\u2019 of the LFA actually changed? Well, let\u2019s say it\u2019s evolved. We now know that it\u2019ll be a BEV, despite sharing the GR GT\u2019s basic structure and core competencies. And no, it\u2019s unlikely to get a hybrid V10 even if technically you could probably get an engine in there.<\/p>\n

Photography: Toby Thyer<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Given Toyota\u2019s research and development programmes, it\u2019ll get solid state batteries with triple the energy density of traditional lithium ion, have all wheel drive and lots and lots of horsepower. Probably. But that\u2019s not the\u00a0entirety of the point. This is a more sophisticated, mature and exclusive kind of car \u2013 and not one you\u2019ll be overly tempted to thrash around a track.<\/p>\n

The profile has become more fully realised than previous iterations, and some of the detail has started to emerge \u2013 a smoother, more resolved front with very strong headlight and DRL graphics, some sculptural vents in the bonnet. Again, a cab-rear stance, but beefed up with proper flying buttresses on the C-pillar (very OG LFA), bleeding back into a modern representation of the original LFA\u2019s triangular rear bumper corner treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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OK, so it\u2019s also got a quadcopter drone frenched into the rear windscreen, but it\u2019s safe to say that probably won\u2019t make production. All in all though, it\u2019s a slick looking thing \u2013 even if it doesn\u2019t massively embrace the packaging possibilities of a full EV drivetrain.<\/p>\n

Of more interest here is the stunning interior thinking. The concept is bi-colour side to side, the driver almost walled off from the passenger by a cockpit that literally wraps around the driving seat. The driver\u2019s display butterflies across the dash like a wave, different sections displaying vital functions. And the yoke wheel is festooned with delicate, almost surgical spars and switches, supplemented by Lexus-ish rotaries. Weirdly, it still feels like a Lexus \u2013 has some of those design cues \u2013 but angles upwards in terms of design, quality and space-age weirdness.<\/p>\n

Even the colour palette feels considered and deliberate, and though you probably wouldn\u2019t mistake it for a production car, you can see where the designers might be leading us: Lexus as a forward thinking, cutting edge brand with a more liberal dose of creativity than we\u2019ve seen so far. It\u2019s not finished and will likely see yet more iterations, but we like the direction the actual LFA replacement is going \u2013 the same bones as the GR product, but sent to a very specific finishing school.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And so to the third part of what Toyota is calling \u2018The Trinity\u2019: after the GR GT and the GT GT3 comes this Lexus LFA Concept. The car previously known as the Lexus Sports Concept in what was probably the worst kept secret in… well, ever. There\u2019s also been confirmation that the car is a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1821688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1821688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1821688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1821688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1821688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}