While production of the Lexus LFA ended in 2012, the Japanese automaker managed to sell three new examples in the U.S. last year.
Annual sales results published by Toyota earlier this week confirmed the news. In 2018, a total of 2 Lexus LFA models were sold while in 2017, three were sold. In August 2017, it was revealed that Lexus dealerships across the United States had 12 LFAs in stock, meaning there’s just four remaining examples up for grabs.
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The Lexus LFA is revered by many enthusiasts as one of the finest supercars of the past decade, thanks in large part to its 4.8-liter naturally-aspirated V10 engine. However, with an eye-watering price tag of $450,000 as new in the U.S., it’s not hard to understand why Lexus had trouble selling all 500 examples that it produced.
It remains unclear if the dealerships responsible for selling the three examples throughout 2019 sold their LFAs at premiums, for the original MSRP, or perhaps even at discounts to simply get rid of them. We expect the former to be the case as it seems unlikely independent dealerships would sell the LFA without making a nice bit of profit. After all, the value of this Japanese supercar will likely to continue to rise in the years to come.
The aforementioned 4.8-liter V10 was tuned by Yamaha and pumps out 552 hp and 354 lb-ft (480 Nm) of torque. This engine was coupled to a semi-automatic transmission sending power to the rear wheels and revs so fast that Lexus had to design a fully-digital gauge cluster to keep up with it.
