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.

The guys over at Auto­ex­press have man­aged to steal a few shots at the L-​​FA con­cept in “sus­tained test­ing”, mak­ing this con­cept kind of promis­ing. As we reported ear­lier, it still seems a front-​​mounted V-​​10 RWD coupe is the con­fig­u­ra­tion of choice for the Lexus L-​​FA. Per­son­ally I’m won­der­ing how this con­cept will stack up not just against the new gen­er­a­tion 911 Tur­bos and Beemers but also the Nis­san GTR slated for around 2009.

I can’t wait. That body is prime for Trans­form­ers 2. Check out a full gallery of pic­tures at Auto­Ex­press

The First Lexus Supercar?

It looks like Lexus will be enter­ing the super­car mar­ket with con­fir­ma­tion of it’s L-​​FA con­cept going ahead into pro­duc­tion, albeit in a some­what dif­fer­ent form to what we’ve seen around the world’s motor shows.

Carsales.com.au informs us the car will be given the des­ig­na­tion F for “Fuji speed­way” where Lexus would test their new mon­ster. The car is expected to be a front engined V10, pos­si­bly based on a sim­i­lar archi­tec­ture to Toyota’s F1 car engines, and put out 370kW (500hp), com­pet­ing directly with other big mean Euro­pean super­cars, such as the Mer­cedes SL65 AMG, Porsche 911 Turbo, Aston Mar­tin DB9 and Fer­rari F430. It will also be inter­est­ing to see how the new Lexus super­car stacks up against Nissan’s upcom­ing GTR.

(more pic­tures avail­able via Carsales.com.au)

The first F series Lexus, the IS-​​F is expected to arrive in Aus­tralia some­time next year. Aus­tralian IS-F’s will be fit­ted with a 5L 300kW V8 an 8 speed auto­matic trans­mis­sion and lim­ited slip dif­fer­en­tial, mak­ing the car a nice drag pack­age for those of you with the incli­na­tion (all of you I dare say).

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