Lexus Electrified Sport Concept Previewing a LFA successor

[Supra93]

Lexus LFA Concept surprises Goodwood Festival of Speed with world-first hill climb drive

https://media.lexus.co.uk/lexus-lfa...l-of-speed-with-world-first-hill-climb-drive/

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[mmspider]

That thing does look visually awesome.

 

[johnny_10196]

Minus the mirrors, it looks pretty close to the concept.

 

[2JZ-No-Sh*t]

I'm sure it will look amazing; however, it's such a shame that they will only offer it with an EV powertrain.

 

[BrettS]

Rumor is it’ll use solid state batteries. Still lame it’s going to be an ev though

 

[KahnBB6]

Rumor is it’ll use solid state batteries. Still lame it’s going to be an ev though

The prototype version's slightly lower hood line, larger rear tires and overall tweaked body lines make it look better than the concept car version IMO. It looks great.

If they ditch the yoke steering wheel and give it a proper driver oriented interior it'll be closer to the mark inside as well as out.

Since we're already getting the GR GT/GT3 I'm interested to see what they can do with their so far hand made solid state battery packs. I could care less about some bonkers short 0-60 time. I want to see how they program the whole system, what the pack weight, size, placement (not under the floor pans hopefully) and power density will be, how it behaves when driven hard continuously on the street and track, and how long it actually lasts under regular aggressive driving.

And it would be great if they give this model a two-speed transmission the same as Porsche does for their Taycan.

And especially as to how it compares to the overheating issues present in Lithium-ion technology and instances of thermal runaway from dendrites forming between the anode and cathode.

Toyota were originally supposed to have debuted this technology in 2025. A couple more years to get it right on launch isn't a bad thing. Last news I read about its challenges the biggest issue was how to reliably manufacture packs/cells in a larger volume semi-automated or fully automated process rather than totally by hand.

Other than with this flagship LFA2 model they've also wanted to put the solid state technology into higher volume hybrid models. Apparently because they consider that to be a harsher production 1st gen testing environment than with a 100% EV model.

Nissan has had their own solid state battery release target at 2028 for a while now but it's unclear if their timeframe has been pushed since Ivan Espinosa became the new CEO. Toyota may still beat them to being first to market introduction.

 

[Bryster]

linewise they made it more LFAish

 

[Captain_Kirk]

Rumor is it’ll use solid state batteries. Still lame it’s going to be an ev though

Yup

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/07/lexus-lfa-solid-state-batteries/

 

[not_howard]

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