Showdown 2008: Nissan GT-R to Meet Lexus LFA on Corvette's Turf (Jalopnik)

by | August 16, 2006 at 06:06 am
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READ MORE: 2008 , gt-r , lexus , lf-a , new cars , news , nissan AutoWeek , deep into its future products predictions, reports on a couple of Japanese performance cars that could redefine the sportscar landscape. The first is the long-awaited, all-wheel-drive Nissan GT-R, which AW says will arrive as a 2008 model. It'll largely be a competitor to the Chevrolet Corvette, immune from Japanese competition for decades, and priced in the $60,000 range. From Lexus, the LF-A -- introduced in concept form ...
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Mr.Vent

This car lost me in two areas. One, its an automatic transmission. Two,
its Lexus rotors are drilled. Awesome. So, weakened rotors that are not
really sport-worthy, and a manually controllable automatic transmission
pretty much means middle-aged yuppy-mobile.

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