Motor Trend Compares the Lexus LFA & Acura NSX

LOVE the NSX, BTW!  As transcendent a sports car in 1990 as the LS400 was a luxury car the previous year.  It change the game. Now that I think about it......The Lexus LS in 1989.  The Acura NSX in 1990.  The SC400 in 1991.  That's one hell of a run for Japan luxury that germany never saw coming!But this is definitely comparing an apple to an orange.....BD

 Absolutely.  Those were 3 incredible years for Japanese engineering.  (And I still love the first-gen SC400 body style - the later one just never was quite right IMO).

Of everyone in the world, I knew this video would bug you the most. :-)

Bugs me too... This guy is retarded.  My 01' GS 430 kept pace and even inched passed the NSX.  He is on crack!   It's like his mind is programmed with only understanding everyday cars and the LFA is simply out of his league...

:-)  Yeah, I always have a difficult time when I can clearly see someone is not giving LFA a fair review and using selective argument to give only a one-sided perspective. In this review, the worst thing is how much he speculates, gossips and recites anecdotes that are not based on facts, but either misinformation or simple prejudicial treatment. I believe in giving credit where it must be given.

Thanks for saving my time which I plan to say such thing ... another thing is , they never attempted to develop a dual-clutch transmission ? I thought they planned about it , but I'll stick with single-clutch , it's lighter & more manly . Another thing is , he already say the Lexus LFA have developed 10 years before it entered production , but he still say is Akio actually want/planned the car when Akio only become CEO of Toyota back in 2008 ? I think the better way to say , should be , Akio give the green light on the production .He said LFA is scary when you floor the throttle ... I don't think Ferrari 458 Italia does smoothly drive out the corner if you floor the throttle .

he also complained that the aventador was scary and that the XKR-S was not a drivers car because it wanted to do corners sideways...something which makes me wonder if this guy has EVER been on a roller-coaster (where you pay to get scared, and it's fun)

I second that. Lexus needs to give Krew LFA for 1 or 2 days so that he can compile all of his footage and comprehensive review of LFA.

Most definitely agree. And Krew should come down to Ottawa and drive it around Calabogie too ;) It's really sad to see that video going through social media like the guy's opinion actually mattered.

You obviously know nothing about this car at all and also how many factually inaccurate statements he made. Are you telling me NSX does not have any flaws?? He only pointed out the weak and ordinary engine. That is it. What about the infamous heavy understeer that everyone has always talked about?? Biased?? Why don't you try taking the litmus test?? Try asking the actual owners who forked all of the money for their LFAs and see what they say. I can tell you they are more pissed and more upset with how unfair he was to the LFA. They are the people who actually spent the money and they are regular drivers like everyone else. Fact of the matter is, the driver is completely incompetent. He does not know how to handle a car with so much horsepower and a mid-ship layout and without racing tires or slick tires. It needs to be respected. He is only good for driving 200 HP cars.

This is the only review among several from renowned experts and journalists that trashes the LFA. Who's the biased one here?

As a average driver who is doesnt race will not find anything wrong with the car in any way or form. Its only a prof racing driver or a "expert" who has been behind the wheels of many sport cars ( like some auto journalists) can really tell the dynamics or gear shifting, etc. I would love to hear from true racing driver ( behind camera) to tell for example the gear shifting or response like MT driver has made. But for a regular consumer this car is absolute fun

So what are you saying?? This guy is an expert?? LOL This guy is a nobody trying to stirr controversy. Have you even read a review of LFA by a professional racer?? You clearly have not. Yet, again LFA has received rave reviews from ALL of the expert drivers. You are simply 2 years behind on what happened. Some even going as far as calling LFA "THE best and most confidence inspiring car" they have ever driven. LFA has won several awards in "best cars" competition beating even Ferrari 599 GTB, Ferrari 599 GTO, SLS AMG, Aventador etc. in comparisons. Also, LFA's transmission has been praised by tons of European and American reviewers despite being a bit difficult in daily driving. I can post everyone one of those quotes here. That is what he means when he says 99% of the other journalists. The only criticism level is on the 0 - 60 mph due to weak tires. That is it. The list is here: Chris Harris (Professional race car driver, Evo UK) Scott Pruett (Rolex racing champion) Tiff Needel (Ex-F1 racing car driver, Fifth Gear) Shareef Abdelbassett (Forged Performance Nissan GTR pro racer) The Stig (Ex-F1 racing car driver, Top Gear) Tanner Foust (Rally racing champion) Sandor Van Ees (AutoWeek Holland, Pro racing driver) Justin Bell (Professional Le Mans Champion) Townsend Bell (Professional Racer) The case in point is, the guy is contradicting everything that nearly every othe review agrees on. That includes professional racing champions. Why?? Because his skills are so limited that he cannot handle an exotic supercar with horsepower than is more than twice than that of the NSX.  

Thank you for telling the truth about the LFA, finally we at least have  somewhere where the public can combat these lies by some segments of the biased media.... You took all the words right out of my mouth, well done... If you guys cant tell by the way he was fumbling his lines pathetically all over the place, in this FLAWED review, he was reading heavily off a script the whole way. This wasn't a real "review". He didnt really test them out for real, he just drove them down the road complaining about the one the whole way and gushing about the other. He downplayed, and damn near ignored all of the strenghts of one and tried to gush over some of the weaker points of the other, not even mentioning how great the engine in the LFA is, interior etc.... This fools idea of "testing" the cars was driving back and forth in a straight tunnel for like the last 5-10 minutes of the video. What a complete waste of time, if he was really trying to do a real and thorough review. What real roads did he drive on to fully give his script, er um opinion? I saw another video he did comparing the Nissan GTR and the Porsche 911 Turbo S and he could have performed the same tests on the LFA and NSX, but he didnt. I wonder if this car was made by Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW, or Mercedes, how would have this and other reviews have went? It was obvious this guys was reading what he was told and PAID to say by Motor Trend, especially in this case where all we are hearing about is how bad the LFA is, just like their other reviews, and contrary to all of the evidence mentioned above by Rolla. Motor Trend is one of the biased, probably paid off magazines just like Road and Track and Car and Driver, they are just less overt about it. Even Car and Driver said that the LFA was better than the 599 HGTE. I though we were safe from this biased media on the internet but we are not it seems, other blogs like Autoblog, funded by Time Warner AOL, just like most of our other media, are heavily biased against Toyota/Lexus as well, and write their article titles and content with biased, derogatory content. Sorry to digress but just google and read all about 'critical thinking' and 'propaganda' to see through the lies of these billionaire companies posing as enthusiasts in the favor of objectivity and truth. And be thanful we have the internet and independent and ojective sites like this one who show both the strengths and weaknesses of the brand, even if we like them. Nothing is wrong with criticism or having a negative opinon, but when I see his off the script real reaction to the car when he was screaming like a little girl in that tunnel from the V10 monster, I knew that it would contradict the other bull he was spewing and be obvious to us all, the"dumb public" how great the car really is, in spite af all they tried to make us believe.

Here is one from Sandor Van Ees of LFA at Nurburgring. He is a professional racer in European circuit and turn on your subtitles. Read everything he says. This is coming from someone who raced for his living. Regarding the transmission, read his comments: "The transmission is absolutely brilliant. It shifts very quickly. With the Nurburgring edition, Lexus claims the shift times drop even further". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvL4aubO6yY

Well, in the hands of professional, it is not even a comparison. Both from subjective and objective stand point. It is apples to oranges through and through. The driving experience in the hands of a professional racer would always heavily favor Lexus LFA for all the reasons in the world. When it comes to numbers, again ofcourse we know well it is not even a comparison. From what I have seen, LFA pulls consistently 75.2 mph slalom speeds and on the skidpad can easily do 1.10 g in lateral grip and in the corners can pull peak g of 1.50 - 1.60 g and all of these units are purely handling units and have nothing to do with power. The NSX never did anything higher than 67 mph in the slaloms and never did anything better than 0.89 g in lateral grip. It is just in a different league. LFA is head and shoulders above the NSX in every measurable way as it should be since it is 28 years newer car.