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?]

The Nis­san GT-​​R Spec V… drool­wor­thy much?

Auto­ex­press have tested the mag­nif­i­cent new GT-​​R Spec V, a con­tin­u­a­tion of the V Spec vehi­cles of the pre­vi­ous model Sky­line GT-R’s. The car comes cov­ered in uprated com­po­nents, from the car­bon fibre wing and front lip to larger brakes and sus­pen­sion. The 478HP mon­ster clocks a 0-​​60MPH (100 km/​h) time of an incred­i­ble 3.2 sec­onds and 74.7MPH through the slalom, giv­ing the Corvette ZR-​​1 some­thing to think about. Check the Auto­ex­press video after the image gallery!

The Nis­san GT-​​R Spec V

FT-​​86 con­cept no more?

Accord­ing to a report in Auto­car, the FT-​​86 is being turned into yet another bland Toy­ota vehi­cle à la Camry.

The car’s focus is now aimed between 30 and 40 year olds, retains RWD, and will suf­fer in the per­for­mance depart­ment as Toy­ota seek to wring more fuel econ­omy out of the Sub­aru sourced boxer instead of performance.

Toy­ota are also expected to increase the price from around US$20,000 to US$23,000 for a base model, and going as high as US$26,000 for a spec’d up ver­sion. Toy­ota risks alien­at­ing younger, more per­for­mance ori­ented dri­vers with this move, as the com­pany has no sig­nif­i­cant sports vehicles.

Ed: Looks like Toy­ota doesn’t have the stones to make a new sports car, as we saw with the HT-​​FS. Nis­san (370), Mitsu (EVO), Subaru(WRX) and even Hyundai (Gen­e­sis) are fill­ing the gaps here, though not nec­es­sar­ily in the same price bracket.

Source: [Auto­car]