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?
The biggest reason IMO is that people didn’t think that this engine was the second-to-last high revving V10 that would ever exist. I think we all thought 9k NA engines would continue forever. I’m pretty sure at the time I thought we’d be seeing 10k, 11k, 12k redlines in the future.
Shit Honda had a 9k RPM engine in a 30k car at the time. And now the Ferrari V8 is dead. Unpredictable plot twist that made the LFA much more special now than it was at the time.