Halo cars are the objects of countless dreams, but they’re not exactly the most cost-effective vehicles an automaker could build.
One automaker feeling that pinch is Lexus after vice president Mark Templin told Automotive News (hat tip to Autoblog) that the automaker won’t be building an LFA successor in the near future.
“I think you will see us do some incredible things in the future, but probably not a $375,000 supercar anytime soon,” he said. “We don’t have a plan for an LFA successor right now.”The reasoning, as Templin points out, has to do with cost — the 552-horsepower, V10-powered LFA was originally expected to have more conventional underpinnings, but engineers saw fit to change out the car’s underpinnings from conventional steel to a mix of aluminum and carbon fibre.That’s not to say Lexus doesn’t have big plans on the horizon — Templin says we can expect to see more F and F-Sport models in the future, along with Toyota’s Gazoo racing team competing in this year’s 24 Hours of Nurburgring race with a handful of LFAs.
