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Saturday, May 24, 2008     Lexus LF-A competes at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring     Lexis is running the LF-A prototype at the 24 hour event to gather test data before an introduction of the car into production in ~2010. This will be interesting to watch - the car is already doing 7:24 in development laps at the track, bettering the Porsche GT-2 and matching the Nissan GT-R. Note how the car is painted flat black to keep prying eyes away from the details... few of the technical details of the car are known at this early point other than that it is powered by a V-10 engine mounted in the front. We'll have to keep an eye on this one over the weekend. Kudos to Lexus engineers for having the confidence in their work to run a development prototype in a tough race like this! A conventional manufacturer might chose to enter a car after a year of production... Lexus is clearly not a conventional car company!  A completely unconfirmed rumor in the web this past week claimed that the car would retail for $225,000 US when it debuts. If true, that would take it well away from the GT-R in market competition, leaving it above Aston Martin territory and in Ferrari territory. Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2408     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2008/05/24.html#a2408   See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Lexus - LF-A | Toyota-Lexus | Toyota-Lexus - Concepts | Track - Nurburgring   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net  S2000s at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring.     S2000s practicing on the course. Be sure to watch the live streaming from the Nurburgring when the race starts later today. Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2407     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2008/05/24.html#a2407   See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net  Honda Fugel at the 2007 24 Hours of the Nurburgring     Review from last year's event: Team Honda Fugel at the 2007 24 Hours of the Nurburgring! Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2406     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2008/05/24.html#a2406   See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net  S2000 at the 2008 24 Hours of the Nurburgring     One of 7 S2000s entered in this year's race! 7 of 27 Hondas entered in this event, the third highest represented brand. #96 Honda S2000: Heinz Schmersal, Mike Stursberg  2008-05-23 (Nürburgring): Friday qualifying 1 Image by Eric Gilbert Tools & Links for DrivingEnthusiast.net post number # 2405     View and add comments: Comments:   Trackback: Trackback Link and count:;[]   Permanent URL for this post: http://www.DrivingEnthusiast.net/sec-blog/2008/05/24.html#a2405   See similar posts in these categories: Events - 24 Hours of the Nurburgring | Honda - Acura | Honda - S2000 | Track - Nurburgring   Search Google for similar topics on the web: Google It!   RSS Feed for DrivingEnthusiast.net   About DrivingEnthusiast.net			Prior Blog Posts by Date May 2008 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Apr   Jun Use this calendar to navigate thru prior blog postings by date.
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