The Lexus LFA Was Wildly Misunderstood. Until It Wasn’t.— BTS with DTS — Ep. 7

Although the value of the Lexus LFA has gone up by six figures in less than 12 months, they didn’t sell well when they were new. So much so that in 2019, seven years after the end of the car’s production, US Lexus dealers sold three leftover brand new LFAs. But things have changed a lot since then. Suddenly everyone is figuring out what sensational cars they are, but it’s taken the passage of a decade or so for that to happen. Part of the problem is how damn expensive they were when they were new. $375,000. Or, more than a Ferrari 599 or twice as much as a Mercedes SLS AMG or Porsche Turbo S. And four times as much as a Nissan GT-R, all of which offered similar performance. Nowadays, none of these cars costs more than its original MSRP, except the LFA. It costs twice its original MSRP. It was an outlier then, but it’s even more of an outlier now. In this video, Derek Tam-Scott investigates why this is the case. Not just by taking a brief look into the car’s development, but also by making a lot of noise wit