[spoonful]

Motoring Aus brings us new info in th ongoing mystery of the RC-Fs final power figures. Now they still don't offer concrete figures, but they do at least illuminate why we havent heard anything to date:

“More than 450 horsepower” – or 335kW – is the inkling as to the new car’s performance. But even that number is due to change, with engineers still working on enhancements tipped to add another 10 or 15kW.

Lexus boss Mark Templin says them secrecy is because the engineering work is still being finalised.

“It’s more of our engineers will keep tweaking and tweaking and tweaking every car we have until they’re ready to launch,” said Templin, defending the chief engineer. “[RC F chief engineer Yaguchi] just hasn’t done final testing on that car, that’s all.”

He also reiterated the emphasis on this performance car was not on the numbers.

“It’s not about zero to 60 or zero to 100 or braking from 100 to zero or any of those, it’s when you put all of those things together to make it the most balanced car is what they’re trying to create, not the fastest or the one that will go around the corner best, it’s about balance of all of those things.”

mystery continues.

 

[soarer]

If they can break the 500HP mark then that will have a lot of people talking. Still can't wait for all the official figures to drop!

 

[spoonful]

If they can break the 500HP mark then that will have a lot of people talking. Still can't wait for all the official figures to drop!

might be the only way to make up for torque converter face palm...

 

[rwdftw]

looks like we will have to keep waiting until its unveiled.

 

[soarer]

might be the only way to make up for torque converter face palm...

It might just be.

If it's around 500HP, do you have any idea what horsepower range we can expect to see that power being made around?

 

[rwdftw]

sooo 451 hp?

 

[soarer]

sooo 451 hp?

Lol it's possible, anything above 450 is possible, even 450.000001, not sure if dyno's show that.

 

[rwdftw]

when will we know by again? i forgot

 

[Lex Luther]

I wonder why they are being so vague. Do they not know the exact horsepower right now, or do they just not want to reveal that info until the time is right? More than 450 is pretty powerful though. I don't think any will complain about that.