It's is V10 engine driven & 65% carbon fibre body.
The rival for Nissan GT-R.
The Lexus LFA is a two-seat exoticsports coupe produced by Lexus as a concept car, halo vehicle, racing prototype, and production vehicle.[1] It is the second model in the F marque line of performance vehicles from Lexus, following the IS F. Three concept versions have been shown, each debuting at the North American International Auto Show with the LF-A designation as part of the LF Series concept line. The first LF-A concept premiered in 2005, followed in 2007 by a second LF-A with a more completely furnished interior and exterior. The third version of the LF-A, a roadster model, premiered in 2008. The production model, trademarked LFA,[2] was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 2009.[3]
The production Lexus LFA features a new V10 engine and a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) body. The use of CFRP materials, which account for 65 percent of the LFA's body composition,[4] is to reduce overall weight for improved performance. The LFA is scheduled to go into production in late 2010, with a projected run of 500 hand-built vehicles at an estimated base price of $US350,000-375,000.[5][6] A circuit-tuned variant is scheduled for 2012.[7]
Everyone loves the iPhone--today. It does two things extremely well: calling and email. To date, no other device can top it. But by this time next year, that may not be enough. And Android will be waiting in the wings.
Google and Microsoft are both deeply interested in status updates from Twitter and Facebook, because their users are increasingly reliant on social networking accounts. More and more people are also getting VOIP numbers like 3Jam and Google Voice; even more are excited about getting on the Google Wave bandwagon. Some people have gone ahead and auto-registered themselves for every social network available by using automatic-registration tools. We're drowning in connections and sharing.
That means every person in your address book now conceivably has a half dozen or more profiles, numbers, addresses, and handles. The iPhone can barely handle the onslaught; even if you have MobileMe, as I do, contacts frequently get doubled up in the iPhone, or aren't correctly overwritten (the "my contact" feature seems especially error prone; it keeps trying to update my personal v-card to say "Me Dannen" instead of just "Me.)
To make matters worse, the iPhone OS doesn't auto-update from any of the new services above--I have to manually enter every new Google Wave address, for example, into my contacts.
Android manages all this chaos with aplomb in its "Eclair" 2.0 version, which is replete with smart ways to centrally manage accounts and contacts and make them available to all apps, OS-wide. If the iPhone doesn't hurry up and follow suit, Apple might lose its most Rolodex-reliant customers: business people who are defecting from Blackberry or Windows Mobile.
Android will also have an edge when it comes to searching content made by the people you know. On the iPhone, there's no native Web search that could coalesce contacts' content and Web content; you have to go to Safari to search. Even with aggregator apps, it's still hard to get a handle on the trends or topics in your social graph. Google, by contrast, lets Android search system- and Web-wide, which means it can include its new social search feature.
Android's Eclair version was opened to developers today, and should be available for download soon.
We've gotten excited about Fisker'sKarma electric car before--it's dashingly attractive for an eco-friendly vehicle. But Fisker will only make a big dent in carbon emissions if it makes a family car. Which it will now do in Delaware.
Because Fisker stated, today, that it will be buying up a disused GM factory in Wilmington for about $18 million, and re-tooling it over the next three years with all the high-tech gear and robots it needs to get its family car rolling off the production line. This car is dubbed Project Nina, and it's being built with the help of a $528.7 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy. Part of that cash will go towards buying up the old GM plant--which closed in July of this year due to GM's bankruptcy restructuring, and which used to manufacture such gas-guzzling beasts as the Solstice--and some $175 million will go towards the re-tooling.
That still leaves $335.7 million in Fisker's pocket, which will presumably go towards the raw materials and 2,000 U.S. staff needed to put the Nina on the roads. Fisker plans to have a production run of between 75,000 to 100,000 Ninas per annum by 2014, which means it'll have to move very fast indeed to rebuild that old GM site.
Fisker's upcoming luxury Karma (pictured above because we don't know what Nina looks like) is being built in Europe and will cost something like $80,000, but the Nina looks like it will be a U.S.-centric enterprise with plans to export some of the $40,000 cars to satisfy EV-hungry drivers elsewhere on the globe. Which is kind of fitting given GM's former status as a proud ambassador of U.S. car tech.
Abandon your doubts that an affordably priced EV will do well. Nissan's news yesterday confirms it: Almost 22,000 people in North America have contacted Nissan since it announced, in August, that the LEAF EV sedan--expected to hit showrooms in fall 2010--will cost approximately $20,000.
According to Nissan, 70% of the inquiries came from regions where the LEAF will be rolled out initially--San Diego, CA; Tucson, AZ; Seattle, WA; Portland, OR, and Los Angeles--and more than 90% drive less than 100 miles daily (the LEAF's range on a single charge). Preordering won't be available until spring 2010, but the initial interest in the LEAF indicates that EVs may finally move beyond the domain of wealthy Tesla Roadster owners. Tesla is preparing an all-electric economy car of its own--the Model S--but at $57,000+ it's no steal.
Is the LEAF the harbinger of affordable EVs? That depends on the success of initiative like the Renault-Nissan Alliance in building a widespread electric car infrastructure. If they don't succeed, EVs will likely remain on the sidelines. But judging by the Alliance's rapidly expanding plan to install charging corridors throughout the U.S., we will probably see more low-priced EVs hit the streets in short order.
The latest battery car from Nissan, announced at the Tokyo Motor Show by Nissan’s president and chief executive, Carlos Ghosn, will be a luxury Infiniti to complement (and probably borrow some technology from) the forthcoming 2011 Nissan Leaf. Under testing activity also, the Nissan Land Glider.
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Mr. Ghosn provided few details about the car. “For now, I can tell you that it will be a compact luxury car, a stylish, high-performance four-seater with zero emissions,” he said in Tokyo on Wednesday. Will the compact Infiniti be based on the compact Leaf? “We didn’t make that announcement,” said Kyle Bazemore, a spokesman for Infiniti. “But since we are working on the Leaf, it would be a natural assumption that it is based on that technology.” It seems likely, however, that the Infiniti version will add extra horsepower. “The brand promises inspired performance, and we think there is a market for that,” Mr. Bazemore said.
Infiniti could not provide a target date for the E.V. or in which markets it might appear. But the luxury division is playing catch-up with green cars. Earlier this month, Infiniti announced that the M37 and M56 cars to appear next April would be joined in the spring of 2011 by the M35, a rear-wheel-drive luxury and high-performance hybrid.
In Tokyo, Nissan also showed off another battery E.V. in concept form: the very narrow and lightweight one-seat Land Glider. Like a Smart car on a diet, this whimsical prototype can lean into turns and is designed, said Nissan, to “reduce traffic congestion and promote effective use of parking space.” Videos show the Land Glider canting over dramatically in corners, so it could be a challenge for people prone to motion sickness.
Not displayed in Tokyo, but mentioned in Mr. Ghosn’s speech, was an electric version of Nissan’s NV200 van/work truck, which was shown in a concept sketch. Mr. Ghosn said the multipurpose vehicle would be useful for “van and taxi drivers to enter urban areas where carbon dioxide emissions are restricted.”
Mr. Ghosn said Nissan would begin taking reservations for the Leaf battery car in the United States, Japan and Europe early next year, with actual deliveries beginning late in 2010. According to Steve Oldham, a spokesman for Nissan, the Leaf being shown in Tokyo is a static display. The company will be showcasing the Leaf technology in a Nissan Versa for a United States tour that begins in Los Angeles on Nov. 13.
Nissan also said in Tokyo on Tuesday that it would join with the Sumitomo Corporation to recycle used lithium-ion batteries from E.V.’s for use in “energy-storage solutions” worldwide.
It's is V10 engine driven & 65% carbon fibre body. 
