Motortrend have briefly placed the new Lexus LF-​​A and a Nis­san GT-​​R next to each other for an impromptu ‘drag race’. What can I say, colour me unimpressed.

Let’s see these two on the track, Motortrend.

[Ed: Dear Lord, they both look kinda awk­ward in terms of styling, don’t they?]

It’s four and a bit years away, but some sources believe the GS-​​F will carry the 500HP V10 slated for the LS-​​F con­cept, set­ting it squarely in the BMW M5’s path, and pos­si­bly the Audi RS6’s.

Details for the For­mula 1 inspired pow­er­plant aren’t set in stone and are vague at best, all we know is it’s a sub-​​five litre 500HP V10, and it will be dropped into the new 2011 GS body. The GS-F’s trans­mis­sion pre­dicted to be a paddle-​​shifting fully man­u­al­ized mod­i­fied 8 speed auto­matic, and styling is expected to fol­low along the IS-F’s body cues.

Hit MotorTrend for some ren­dered imagery.

More dis­ap­point­ment as the UK’s Auto­car mag­a­zine announces the “Advanced Sports Car Con­cept”, revealed back in Detroit in Jan­u­ary and largely con­sid­ered to be the new NSX, won’t be at the Tokyo Motor Show in October.

NSX Con­tender, the Advanced Sports Car Concept

The con­cept shows a front-​​engine machine, though Honda aren’t say­ing any­thing at all about the engine’s dis­place­ment, whether it would be a V6, V8, V10, nat­u­rally aspi­rated or forced induc­tion. It is expected we’ll be kept hang­ing way into 2010, mean­ing Honda will be late to the game as Nis­san and Toy­ota gear up to release their Japan­ese super­cars; the GTR and L-​​FA respectively.

[Source: Carsales]