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In concept form, Lexus said a “two-seater supercar powered by a high-output B10 engine” would be shown at that year’s Tokyo Motor Show. The Lexus LFA was first mentioned publicly in October 2005. Power went to the rear wheels via a six-speed manual ‘box, too.Īll in all 1,270 were built, selling for 452,690 euros new. Displacement had gone up from 5.5- to 5.7-litres, meaning power stood at 612PS (450kW) at 8,000rpm, plus 590Nm (437lb ft) at 5,750rpm. Changes included a new carbon-fibre floor, an active rear wing, but crucially that engine, labelled within Porsche as ‘980/01’, remained. It took two-and-a-half years for Porsche to take the concept to production reality, the final car going on display at the 2003 Geneva Motor Show. The Carrera GT concept, and eventual production car, became the first Porsche road car to feature a carbon-fibre chassis, as that is what the racer was due to use, but it also inherited the engine, a high-revving, 68-degree V10, which itself can be traced back to Formula 1 in the 1990s, when Porsche supplied engines to the Footwork team and was looking to replace its unreliable ’3512’ 80-degree V10.

It emerged from the ashes of a Le Mans sportscar project that failed to fruit: the LMP2000 prototype, or the 9R3 as it was known internally, built in 1998 but never driven in anger.

Quite an entrance but it was quite some car.

So it seems, because here’s another list and here’s another deep-dive into what makes the GT’s engine so frightfully good.īefore the sun had even risen over Paris on Thursday 28th September 2000, Walter Röhrl drove the Porsche Carrera GT concept car through the streets of Paris with a police escort, on his way to the car’s reveal at that year’s Paris Motor Show. A year-and-a-half ago, in our list of the best sounding V10s of all time, we wrote that “a list of fabulous V10s wouldn’t be complete without the Porsche Carrera GT”.

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