RE: Lexus RC F Track Edition - official

[BIRMA]

st4 said:

BIRMA said:

I don't think there is that much of an upgrade over the standard car in all honesty. In the very informative Chris Harris you tube test of the older RCF he does state it's too heavy for track use and I don't think this is enough of a step up to be honest.
What he did say was that it was a good road car and I agreed so much I went out and bought one.
If I ever get bored with the standard N/A V8 producing 470 BHP I'll do what a lot of fellow USA owners have done and supercharge the car that way you get an easy 670 BHP plus Lexus reliability.
When I had my CL65 I had a highly tuned VX 220 turbo as a track day car, personally myself I'd buy a secondhand 2017 year RCF and a Caterham for the track for probably about the same money as one of these will go for.

Hi there - I recognise you from the Lexus forum. Supercharging sounds an awesome thing to do - and what people don't appreciate until they have a Lexus is they just don't go wrong - so you can truly enjoy owning and driving the thing.

Hello, yes I am on the Lexus forum although I've been on this one a while longer.
I don't want to be too negative about a car I've never seen or tried as with this new model. I'll wait until someone who knows what he is talking about to try it on track, I'll be interested to see if they've done enough to improve it (I have my doubts) as from experience Carbon Ceramic discs are good but a spill into the kitty litter can ruin them and that would be a very costly error.
If it's not that hot on track I'll go back to my original thinking, that being for the price of this car new you could buy a 2017 spec RCF like mine (which I really like) with the active suspension and TVD and have enough spare change to buy a bloody good secondhand dedicated track day car with steel discs.