33 degrees Celsius, overcast sky , the sun is burning. The asphalt shimmers on the Goodwood Circuit, the famous motor racing circuit, 100 km south of London. Built on a military airfield in the 1930s. After World War II , more specifically from September 1948 here on the four kilometer long runway again instead of race , won the very first post-war racing Sir Stirling Moss. However, the racing legend lived here with many successes, including a bitter defeat.
In April 1962 Stirling Moss at Goodwood had a serious accident , so heavy that it had to end his career. Today, we here at Goodwood testfahren an impressive pre-production model . A real race car with road permission . But it is not a British automobile. No Lotus, not a gun , not Morgan, not a McLaren. Anything Italian from Maranello , Modena or Sant’Agata Bolognese. No, the angry looking , white super athlete with the bi-xenon headlamps schlitzaugigen and the three large air inlets in the front bumper is from Japan . From the refined and now sport Toyota subsidiary Lexus. His name LFA . His mission show , draufhaben what Toyota / Lexus Sun And it succeeds.
The LFA must not hide from Lamborghini , Ferrari and Co. . The performance , the chassis and the workmanship are top class . In the fast car industry , ten years of development indeed an eternity …