{"id":35870,"date":"2010-08-21T09:13:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T16:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35870"},"modified":"2010-08-21T12:59:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T19:59:42","slug":"375000-lexus-lfa-ferrari-fighter-or-exotic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35870","title":{"rendered":"$375,000 Lexus LFA: Ferrari Fighter or Exotic Fantasy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35872\" title=\"lexus-lfa1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2010\/08\/lexus-lfa1.bmp\" alt=\"lexus-lfa1\" \/>In the hermetic bubble of a racetrack \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where economic reality has no pit pass \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Lexus LFA makes perfect, glorious sense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As I rocket around New Jersey Motorsports Park, this supercar physically compels me to switch off skepticism, pay heed to the racing line and happily marinate in waves of sensory stimulation: the Formula One shriek of its 552-horsepower V-10, the tightrope balance and technical precision that makes even a Corvette ZR-1 feel like a Tinkertoy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hurry, ask me while I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still in the driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s seat: is the LFA worth $375,000? Sure, for the rare person who would prefer a supercar from Japan, not Europe &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/22\/automobiles\/autoreviews\/22LEXUS.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avantlink.com\/link.php?ml=3398&amp;p=12689&amp;pw=15937\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the hermetic bubble of a racetrack \u00e2\u20ac\u201d where economic reality has no pit pass \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the Lexus LFA makes perfect, glorious sense. As I rocket around New Jersey Motorsports Park, this supercar physically compels me to switch off skepticism, pay heed to the racing line and happily marinate in waves of sensory stimulation: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35896,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35870\/revisions\/35896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}