Production chronology2010–2012
Sourced production or model lifecycle range used by the main catalog timeline.
Wikipedia lead ↗3 years
← Lexus
Lexus / Model record
LexusLFA
Production2010–2012
Recorded originJapan
ClassSports car
Also known asLexus LF-A
Power553 hp
Built500 units
Production
500
confirmed units built
every.autos editorialconfidence: high
Toyota spent a decade building a supercar almost no one asked for — and made a masterpiece.
The LFA is one of the strangest cars any mass-market maker has built. Toyota's luxury division spent most of a decade developing it, switching from aluminium to carbon fibre partway through and effectively starting over, to build a hand-made supercar in tiny numbers. It made no commercial sense, and that was rather the point.
At its heart was a 4.8-litre V10 developed with Yamaha, tuned as much for sound as for speed: it spun so fast — past 9,000 rpm — that a conventional analogue tachometer couldn't keep up, so the LFA used a digital one. It produced 553 hp and weighed 1,580 kg, and its engine note is still regarded as one of the finest ever fitted to a road car.
Only 500 were built, across 2011 and 2012. The LFA lost Toyota money on every car — and stands as proof of what the company could do when profit wasn't the brief.
Written and fact-checked for every.autos · every claim checked against the sources below · 2026-07
Background
The Lexus LFA is a two-door sports car produced between 2010 and 2012 by the Japanese carmaker Toyota under its luxury marque, Lexus. Lexus built 500 units over its production span of two years.
Text adapted from “Lexus LFA” on Wikipedia ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗ · retrieved 2026-07
Chronology ledger
Dates with their meaning intact
US EPA model years2012
Model years represented in FuelEconomy.gov; a US-market observation, not a worldwide production range.
EPA FuelEconomy.gov ↗1 year
Canadian NRCan model years2012
Model years in Natural Resources Canada retail fuel-consumption data; Canadian-market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Netherlands RDW first-admission observations2013–2014
First-admission years observed in Dutch vehicle registrations; this is market evidence, not a worldwide production range.
Netherlands RDW ↗2 years
Swiss TAS/TARGA approval observations2011–2012
Swiss type-approval years; approval dates are not production chronology.
Swiss ASTRA TAS/TARGA ↗2 years
Research notes
64 of the 500 were the higher-output Nürburgring Package variant. Previously miscategorized in this catalog under "Toyota" (Lexus's parent) instead of "Lexus" — a Wikidata manufacturer-link quirk, now routed correctly.