Jared has spent 15 years covering the auto industry, getting his first break with autoX—one of Asia’s biggest auto magazines. Since 2010, he has reviewed hundreds of cars and motorbikes around the world, worked with Top Gear, Autocar, Evo, Motoring World, and Quattroruote, served on the IMOTY jury for five years, and is a founding member of the Automotive Journalist Association of India (AJAI).
In just one day, Toyota might reveal its latest Supercars. With a livestream locked for October 13, the Japanese carmaker is stoking rumors that the legendary LFA successor —the Lexus LFR—will take the stage. However, the teaser suggests that this version will bear the Toyota badge for now.
With Toyota and Lexus gearing up to crash the supercar party yet again, our HotCars digital artist Vishnu has crafted a razor-sharp render of what we believe the upcoming Lexus LFR will look like, shedding the heavy camo we’ve seen for months months on prototypes in spy shots and videos. Take a look at the new Lexus LFR/Toyota GR GT Supercar in all its glory.
Toyota has teased its side of the story with the new GR GT concept, hinting that the Toyota-badged version will step out first, with the Lexus variant set to arrive next year. Big shoes are going to be filled here, but from our exclusive digital design, we think that things are looking pretty good for Toyota.
The upcoming Lexus LFR looks like a proper track weapon – low, wide, and sharpened for battle. Up front, knife-edge LED eyes slash across a hood with a purposeful scoop, feeding a prowling nose framed by giant, race-bred intakes and a deep splitter. The stance is pure attack as we can see from that long hood, the cab-rearward proportions, swollen rear haunches, and black multi-spoke wheels stuffed with big brakes and red calipers. Sculpted side surfacing funnels air to the tail, where a towering track wing promises real downforce, not just drama. It’s proper GT3 energy with Lexus polish that is sleek, technical, and seriously mean—like the rebellious heir that grew up at the Nürburgring.
The Lexus LFA was once the best supercar you could buy. With a 4.8-liter V10 screaming past 9,000 rpm, and with around 552 hp, a top speed north of 200 mph, a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer chassis, and that spine-tingling, Yamaha-tuned exhaust note that turned tunnel runs into symphonies, many automotive heavyweights—Jeremy Clarkson included—have called the LFA one of the greatest supercars ever made.
That’s the legacy the LFR has to honor, and so we are expecting big things from Toyota.
Vishnu’s LFR visualization leans into that heritage without looking retro. Think arrowhead nose, tight surfacing, aggressive brake-duct geometry, and a tail that looks ready to launch a thousand apexes. We’ve watched the Toyota/Lexus mules hammering the Nürburgring in our spy videos, and the consensus is simple: it looks pretty badass.
While we know that there are three versions of the car on the way, our renders focuses on the wide stance and aero with purpose, because all three versions of the supercar will have minor differences such as the rear wing.
We first caught a meaningful glimpse of the direction Toyota was heading in when it rolled out the GR GT3 concept. Translate that GT3 silhouette into road-going Lexus refinement, and you’re in LFR country: a halo model that puts Lexus back in the big boys league of supercars, and maybe even next to hypercars.
Ofcourse, we have to wait for the official specs, because mostly everything is still under wraps. But our ears—and a few well-placed hints—suggest a hybridized V8 is on deck. Those camouflaged Lexus prototypes sounded amazing on the track. Our sister website, CarBuzz, reported hearing a distinct V8 burble during public outings at Goodwood, plus the occasional whoosh that hints at forced induction. Whether hybrid assist was active during those runs is harder to say, but the soundtrack promises the kind of drama LFA fans crave.
Expect multiple flavors at launch. If Lexus follows the playbook we’re hearing about:
To see how their latest supercar compares to others, Lexus brought along a Mercedes-AMG GT R and the record-chasing AMG GT Black Series—serious track hardware— to the track. This only means that the upcoming LFR clearly aims to run head-to-head with serious high-performance supercars.
The bottom line here is that Lexus knows the assignment. The LFA made believers out of skeptics by being rare, raw, and genuinely special. The LFR doesn’t have to copy it at all. It just needs to make us feel that same electricity the moment we thumb the starter and the revs whip up like a turbine. From what we’ve seen, heard, and rendered, that’s exactly where we hope this is headed.
Well! Tomorrow we shall find out.
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