Surprise! This is Lexus's incoming new V8 supercar: listen to it here
Lexus rolls out a couple of camo'd specials for Goodwood. Good noise, too
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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a camouflaged V8 supercar and its racing variant on a quiet demonstration run? Actually it's exactly that. Lexus – we think – rolled out a couple of surprises at last weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed, and they are good, V8-based surprises.
At least, we're fairly sure they've from Lexus. And V8s. No mistaking that noise. One of these cars looks like an evolution of the GT3 GR concept we first saw way back in 2022 – a racing car with a mighty big wing and big ambitions.
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The other car? That's probably its road-going stablemate – which some are calling 'LFR' – and it certainly sounds like this so-called 'LFR' will run a mighty V8. Check out Goodwood's video below.
Obviously, the race car is probably making the bigger noise here, and we're not sure whether the road-going version of it will run some form of hybrid assistance. It's a Lexus – we think – after all.
But it'll be – we think – fairly mighty, because spy shots have seen this prototype doing the rounds at Fuji, Spa, and the Nürburgring. Reckon on something that'll go into battle against stuff like the Merc-AMG GT and Aston Martin Vantage.
We'll update you as soon as we hear more. For now, why not hear it yourself below…
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