A Lexus LFA, front three-quarter view on an ivory field with a sun disc

Market value · road

$750K–$1.7M

Typical $1.2M · 32 sales · +37% vs ’19–’21

$411K$1.9M

Open Market & Price

LFA

Carbon, V10, nine thousand

Lexus spent a decade developing one car, then stopped at 500. Its in-house carbon structure and 9'000 rpm V10 matter more to collectors than its period acceleration figures; Nürburgring Package cars form the scarce factory tier.

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Market value · road

$750K–$1.7M

Typical $1.2M · 32 sales · +37% vs ’19–’21

$411K$1.9M

Open Market & Price

Market value · road

$750K–$1.7M

Typical $1.2M · 32 sales · +37% vs ’19–’21

$411K$1.9M

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Market history · in the terminal

Open Market & Price

Market & Price

The price and the proof

A terminal for one car: the model curve over the documented record, the benchmarks it is measured against, and the instruments that read it.

HCN:LFALive model

$1'200'00052.5% · 12M

Model curve · anchored to 36 documented sales · benchmarks rebased at window startmodel v1 · seed lexus-lfa · not investment advice

The readouts · model figures against the benchmarks36 documented anchors · last sale 3 mo ago

Compound annual growth

Window	This car*	S&P 500	Gold
1Y	+52.5%	+18.8%	+21.9%
5Y	+3.1%	+11.4%	+17.6%
10Y	+6.8%	+13.3%	+11.8%

*Modeled price CAGR · S&P is a price index, no dividends

Deepest drawdown · model window

This car*-67.6%Aug 2022 → Jun 2024 · recovered Mar 2026

S&P 500-20.3%Dec 2021 → Oct 2022 · recovered Dec 2023

Gold-38.4%Oct 2012 → Dec 2015 · recovered Jul 2020

Forecast ladder · model quantiles

Horizon	P10	P50	P90
+6M	$1.0M	$1.2M	$1.5M
+12M	$967K	$1.3M	$1.6M
+24M	$912K	$1.3M	$1.9M

Median path with the 10th and 90th percentile · not investment advice

Transaction ledger · documented salesMixed price basis · not estimates

36 of 36 recorded sales · shown in USD · recorded currency in each record

The first documented result here fell below the $375'000 launch price. Standard cars later settled around $750'000 to $1'100'000, while Nürburgring Package results moved from $825'000 in 2018 to $1'875'000 in 2023. A 748-mile standard car at $1'810'000 in 2026 is treated as an outlier, not the baseline.

Price range · road · openConfidence · estimateThirteen verified USD auction sales from 2013 to 2026 cover both specifications, but they do not form one homogeneous valuation set. Standard-car mileage creates wide dispersion and Nürburgring Package cars trade in a separate tier, so the combined model-level band remains an estimate.

Floor

$750K

Typical

$1.2M

Ceiling

$1.7M

Estimate band for good road cars. 32 documented sales since 2019 plotted below.

$402K$750K$1.2M$1.7M$1.9M

Hover the spectrum to read a value, or a dot for the sale behind it.

Band and axis shown in USD. Sale positions use indicative fixed-rate conversion to USD; sale readouts retain recorded currencies. Standard LFA: roughly $750'000 to $1'100'000. Nürburgring Package: roughly $1'400'000 to $1'700'000. The displayed range combines both.

The wider market · Lexus at auction · median per year · modeled between anchors18 lots · 2019–2024 · exact yearly anchors · modeled line

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Instrument calibration for this file is in progress — the terminal above reads the documented record directly.

Public USD auction results only. Dealer asks and private trades are excluded; the 2017 London result is omitted because the importer performs no FX conversion. Bring a Trailer figures are winning bids and exclude buyer fees.

Overview

A research project that outgrew its brief

Toyota opened the programme in 2000. Haruhiko Tanahashi led the engineering team, Hiromu Naruse defined the dynamic targets, and Akio Toyoda tested successive prototypes and carried the project through management.

The first prototype ran in 2003 and reached the Nürburgring in 2004. An aluminium concept appeared at Detroit in 2005, but the move to CFRP reset the structure and required Lexus to develop carbon production methods in-house. Prototype and production cars then ran four consecutive Nürburgring 24 Hours from 2008 to 2011.

The production LFA appeared at Tokyo in October 2009. Motomachi built 500 from December 2010 to December 2012; no successor shared its engine, structure or production line.

Power: 560 PS
0 to 100: 3.7 s
Built: 500
Layout: Front-mid engine · RWD
Launch: ~$375'000

Reference

Technical specifications

Powertrain

Engine: 1LR-GUE 72° V104'805 cc, naturally aspirated; Toyota designation
Power: 560 PS at 8'700 rpm412 kW, factory European specification
Torque: 480 Nm at 6'800 rpmfactory figure
Redline: 9'000 rpm
Induction: Ten individual throttleselectronic, with dry-sump lubrication
Transmission: 6-speed ASG transaxlesingle clutch; full-power upshifts down to 0.20 s

Chassis

Structure: CFRP passenger cell65% CFRP and 35% aluminium by body-in-white mass
Weight saving: ~100 kgLexus claim against an equivalent aluminium structure
Weight distribution: 48:52factory target
Suspension: Double wishbone / multilinkfront / rear
Brakes: Carbon-ceramic discs390 × 34 mm front; 360 × 28 mm rear
Dimensions: 4'505 × 1'895 × 1'220 mm
Wheelbase: 2'605 mm
Drag coefficient: 0.31

Performance and production

0 to 100 km/h: 3.7 sfactory measurement and target
Top speed: 325 km/hfactory figure
Independent tests: 3.6 to 3.7 s to 60 mphCar and Driver, two cars; not directly comparable to 0 to 100 km/h
Production: 50015 December 2010 to 14 December 2012
Build rate: One car per dayLFA Works, Motomachi
Nürburgring Package: 50 announcedRM Sotheby's and the LFA Registry report 64 completed; no public Lexus production ledger resolves the split

The records

0rpm

Engine redline

naturally aspirated V10

Cars built

factory-confirmed total

0car/day

LFA Works rate

0min

Nordschleife

14.64 s · Nürburgring Package

HICON BID

Buying interest, silently.

A HICON Bid is a confidential expression of buying interest on the Lexus LFA file — never public, never shown to other members. It is not a binding purchase, and HICONIUM holds no funds.

HICON Bids are a member instrument. Sign in to place one.

The vault

Open a file on yours.

You keep one? The record starts in your garage — identity, papers, photography, and the market evidence this file already carries, bound to your chassis.

The variants

One badge, 2 executions

The register separates the LFA into its documented executions. One reference silhouette per execution — each opens as its own file as the archive fills.

LFA01

Reference in preparationNürburgring Package02

2 executions on file · references drawn to the house standard

The cars

The LFA register

Documented individual cars — chassis, colour, ownership and sale history. Open one for its full provenance. Public records only; members see the complete registry.

17 documented · public records