Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
Being such a masterpiece, I always wonder why the LFA didn’t do well when it first came out. Yet now you see them selling for damn near $1M. It’s like Van Gogh. No one appreciated the work of art until it was gone. But why?
Because really the only thing the LFA has going for it is the exhaust note, which can’t really be experienced in a print ad or a magazine article or sitting on a display at an auto show. It doesn’t look particularly great, it wasn’t the fastest in its class, and its badge lacked motoring history or prestige, particularly for the very high price they were charging for it. 13 years later, online videos and motoring journalism is much more ubiquitous so we have a better idea of what makes it so special, coupled with the hindsight of knowing nothing comparable would follow it.