The LFA Name Is Back on a Car With No Engine

Lexus revived the LFA name in December 2025 for a battery-electric sports car concept, putting the badge from its V10 supercar on a two-seater that has no engine at all.

The LFA Concept made its world premiere in Japan alongside Toyota Gazoo Racing’s V8-powered GR GT road car and GR GT3 race car. It isn’t entirely new, since Lexus had already shown the same body as the unnamed "Lexus Sport Concept" at Monterey Car Week and the Japan Mobility Show earlier in 2025, but the December reveal gave it the LFA name and its first official specifications.

Lexus’s announcement says the concept is being developed alongside the GR GT and GR GT3 and shares the GR GT’s light, high-rigidity all-aluminum body frame. Lexus says development focused on a low center of gravity, low weight with high rigidity, and aerodynamics, and that the cockpit uses the same driving position as the two Toyota cars. The car is 184.6 inches long, 80.3 inches wide and 47.0 inches tall on a 107.3-inch wheelbase.

Lexus hasn’t released any power, battery, range or performance figures. Its global release describes the theme of the interior as "Discover Immersion," with a steering wheel shaped so the driver never has to change grip and switches laid out to be used by feel. Lexus says the LFA name is not bound to vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, and that it stands instead for technology its engineers want to preserve and pass on.

That is a big claim to attach to this particular badge. The original LFA was built from late 2010 to late 2012 and limited to 500 cars, with a 4.8-liter naturally aspirated V10 developed with Yamaha, according to EV Central. That V10 is often called one of the best-sounding production engines ever made, as The Autopian pointed out in its coverage of the reveal.

Lexus didn’t say whether the concept will reach production. The Autopian’s Brian Silvestro doubted that it would, pointing to slowing EV demand in the US, Lexus’s biggest market, and weak enthusiasm for electric supercars in general. Lexus later drove the car in public for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July 2026.

The Toyota Report Take

Calling this an LFA is a gamble, because the original earned its reputation almost entirely through that V10. The concept’s proportions and its shared aluminum structure with the GR GT suggest Lexus is serious about building something, but until it publishes real numbers and explains how an electric car will deliver the kind of sensory experience the name promises, the badge is doing more work than the car.