Could you please show me where I can buy a 599GBT or SLR for $200k.

$200k now is quickly becoming the new "baby" supercar territory with the F430, 560-4, GT2, etc.

Against that competition, I would say that the LF-A is priced fairly.

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they will build only 500 LF-A's , maybe Toyota thinks there are enough super rich fanboys to buy them.

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LF-A : $200,000 +
599GBT : $300,000
DBS : $270,000
SLR : $500,000
SLS : $200,000 (?)

Ok... I guess there were enough idiots to buy the SLR. But at least that's MB and McLaren names with rich history behind them... that's important in this class of cars.
But the I doubt the LF-A is a better or faster car than the 599 or DBS... both of those are luxurious and offer unparalleled engines and handling. Not to mention they come with 6-speed manual gearboxes!
Another thing about the Ferrari and Aston Martin have over the Toyota is that they are designed and engineered from the heart... not just reverse-engineering other cars and trying to improve the technology on a computer to make the car faster. No amount of gears, cylinders or electro-gadgetry is ever going to compensate for the lack of a soul.

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Manual transmission is old technology, even the Enzo uses sequential. "electro-gadgetry" doesnt get a car to 220mph. They have put so much time and R & D into this car only to get it to go faster and to make it perfect.

This will be the fastest most expensive production car to come out of Japan I sure as hell am not complaining.

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Show me where you can get a brand new 599GTB for $300k. lmao

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hey, at least they're placing WORSE than last year. Needs more stickers and souls of fanbois.

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you can talk all day long ...24h raceing is endurance racing running MANY laps fast not only one for the statistic to make fanboys like you happy.... who cares if a car is able to run a single fast lap if you need 155 fast laps?

with all their power and Lexus reliabilty they finished 45laps BEHIND the winning Porsche GT3...that are over 1000km in 24h behind the winning Porsche... Lexus has to walk a very very very very long way

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first of all porsche win the race in GT3 category which is modified version as all the above not production versions

second i own M3 and i drove the ISF and i know that the difference is now narrowing still the M3 better but the lexus astonished me who they approach

third if the porsche did crash with the LFA#15 from the beginning of the race i think i may now have the winner you want

forth if the LFA#14 not return back to the work shop due to the accident it may be finish as a winner hence when it go to work shop it was ranked 28 in overhaul and 2 in SP8 and just behind the AMDB12 vantage by couple of seconds

last but not least both models are still preproduction and a lot of those thing might happen even for the engine not the pre crashed radiator i remember when the R8 got fire in it's engine and no body talks widely like that

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Dude they only finished behind that far because the car in question got in an accident and had to be repaired before it could get back on the track. And obviously this one caught on fire.

But the thing is these cars are preproduction and not out yet. How else are they going to make it better if they're not putting it out there and testing it in this kind of endurance race? They'll figure out why this car caught fire, and when the production model comes out it'll be more reliable.

And you can't hold the crash against the other car, it has nothing to do with how fast the car is if you plow it into something, lol.

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Carbon Fibre does not rust. Ass.

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@hashiryu - if you'd be kind to post those pics you took of the entire car's carbon tub, carbon suspension bits, carbon everything, to back up ur assertion it's all carbon and won't rust I'd love to see it.

troll troll troll your boat

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