Tommy I hope you are incorrect about the dollar. The only good news would be some of our cars will hold up across the pond ......

I think it's actually kind of cool looking. (duck underneath everyone swinging at me now) A lot like a Aston Martin to me. I've always liked Astons looks and disliked their performance and depreciation speed. 125k and they've got a market but not 3 times that. Even at 70 or 80k however much they are the GTR's didn't really take off. Interesting price point in this world economy to say the very least.

It's got to be pretty plush though. My parents have always owned those Lexi things and my ex had a land cruiser version and they've always been solid well built cars.

Hope to see one oneday

 

Mark, I hope I'm wrong on this too. I am worried about the implications of such a huge national debt with no means to pay it.

I can't otherwise understand their thinking at $375k and if it's half that, I think it will do well. I'm not sold on the looks but it I may warm up to it more in person. I'm due for a trip to Tokyo and I may try and get a look at one while I'm there. I am sure they will test the hell out of it and it probably will be damn near flawless with perfect fit and finish. I'm just not impressed by the numbers relative to price.

 

Well usually Japanese cars in Europe cost quite a bit more than they do in the US. So just because its 375K Euro does not mean it will not be half that in US.

A Nissan 350Z in Russia is $80K USD, my Infiniti G37S is $84-85k USD.

 

Tommy you sound as if you think the debt just appeared on the books this year...

 

Now now gentleman, the political forum is a few above our little regional forum. Ideology is like a butthole, everyone has one and will defend it to the death. I think that's how that saying goes..

 

Quite an engineering masterpiece but not really a looker.

 

It doesn't matter when it occurred, plot it on a curve if you like and see where it jumps, the point is about the future value of a car and how a $100k performer can sell for $375k and the only way is if the value of the dollar is worth a lot less than it is today. We can't tax our way out of this mess, so unless government drastically cuts spending, we have to devalue the dollar. I don't believe in putting politics before economic literacy, sorry. I don't think most people understand how much a TRILLION dollars actually is, let alone four and how that effects the price of importing things like cars. Even if you confiscate all the wealth in the US it will won't make a dent, that's basic math, so how then do you cover the debt? You devalue it. If you devalue it, you devalue the dollar, which means it takes more dollars to buy the same thing you could buy with it today. The only problem with devaluing the debt is that most of the US debt is held by the Chinese and they aren't going to be so happy about that solution. The topic was about the future price of a car and $375k could be on target depending on what happens to US currency.

 

I like this quote from an MSN article I was just reading. They were bashing it as well.....

 

car looks like origami and is ridiculously overpriced

do you think it will depreciate $250K when you drive it off the lot?

 

this will help...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at3MN...FQEhDQodtHBkQA

 

Excellent! Now ask yourself, regardless of what party you support, how and the hell do you pay off that debt????

 

I myself own a Lexus but I don't understand the purpose of this car. Lexus made theirselves relavent by coming into markets priced lower than the competition to make up for their lack of cache and brand image and they usually performed the same or better as the competition for less money. The LFA costs more than the competition and performs worse!

 

Here's a report saying that the LFA is sold out??
autoblog.com/2010/06/02/report-lexus-lfa-sold-out/

 

I wonder if there is any sneaky behind the curtain type of number massaging going on here.

 

500 production for the whole world= exclusive collector car that will sell out. You have to fill out an application to even be considered to lease one. You can't just say, "Hey, I have the money, give me one".

They did it right... I'm not a fan of the car, but it's going to be rare... I think 200 or so are coming here? Maybe more?