JOB NO: 421355 CLIENT: Lexus CAMPAIGN: RCF Brochure PROOF NO: 01 PUBLICATION: Brochure INSERTION DATE: 00.00.20 View Offers View 01. F LINE HERITAGE 02. BRAVE DESIGN 03. EXHILARATING 04. TAKUMI PERFORMANCE CRAFTSMANSHIP Discover the heritage that brought Pushing the limits of bold and Enjoy exhilarating performance Meet the Lexus master craftspeople the extraordinary RC F to the world. iconic design. developed on racetracks such as the who oversee the world-class quality Fuji Speedway and the Nürburgring of the RC F coupé. Nordschleife. Pages 04–05 Pages 06–09 Pages 10–13 Page 14–21 Build Your RC F RC Build Your “Benefiting greatly from our experience with the Lexus RC F GT3 race cars, we’ve improved the new RC F in every single area and for the first 05. IMAGINATIVE 06. V8 POWERTRAIN 07. GRADE LINE-UP 08. FEATURES, time offer a Track Edition.” TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY AND RC F CHIEF ENGINEER ACCESSORIES YUUICHI TSURUMOTO Discover pioneering technologies Discover more about the V8 Time to decide between the RC F, Read about the amazing level of such as the RC F’s Optitron powertrain behind the RC F that Carbon or Track Edition grades. features and technology available central meter and Lexus delivers its exhilarating performance. for your RC F. Safety System+. Page 22–25 Pages 26–27 Pages 28–29 Pages 30–37 Find a Centre 09. COLOURS AND 10. EQUIPMENT AND 11. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS 12. THE LEXUS EXPERIENCE INTERIOR TRIMS TECHNICAL DATA Customise your vehicle by Study the level of equipment available Find out about the three years’ free Learn how we aim to treat every selecting your favourite interior and alongside the key technical data Lexus Roadside Assistance and learn customer as if they were a guest in Book a Test Drive Book a Test exterior colour. before ordering your RC F. more about our Hybrid Health Check. our home. Pages 38–41 Pages 42–47 Pages 48–49 Pages 50–51 02 RC F RC F 03 F LINE HERITAGE F LINE HERITAGE A DREAM CALLED ‘F’ View Offers View 01 02 Build Your RC F RC Build Your It began in 2004 when, inspired by their shared car remains true to this high-performance heritage, Hand-built in carbon fibre and fitted with a love of cars and motorsport, a small group of Lexus delivering extreme driver engagement through V10 engine delivering a Formula One soundtrack, engineers led by Chief Engineer Yukihiko Yaguchi immense responsiveness and seemingly limitless this first Lexus supercar was extensively developed 03 dreamt of creating a new, high-performance Lexus acceleration, with a sound to raise any heartbeat. and tuned on the racetrack – initially by legendary saloon. Working after hours, outside all corporate test driver Hiromu Naruse – and later proven at structures, they developed a car that could push Many car enthusiasts see the F line as a wonderful multiple Nürburgring 24-hour races to perfect back frontiers on the racetrack yet offer Lexus “mad streak” in the Lexus psyche. Nothing illustrates reliability, aerodynamics and handling. LFA refinement on public roads. this more vividly than the extraordinary LFA production was limited to just 500 units. To say supercar, which made its debut in 2010 – the fullest that the owners of these cars are lucky is something expression yet of a determination to create the of an understatement, given that the LFA was lauded ultimate connection between car and driver. by one leading motoring journalist as “the best car “Lexus F line models are engineered to be I have ever driven”. Find a Centre enjoyed by all car enthusiasts, whatever Taking a decade to bring to fruition – and requiring their degree of expertise.” enormous resources to develop, with pioneering The cars which followed in the slipstream of the CHIEF ENGINEER engineering technologies that had to be created for LFA have had an immense amount to live up to. YUKIHIKO YAGUCHI it alone – the LFA seems to defy all corporate logic. Expectations were high, pushing engineers to deliver Even today, the final cost of the LFA project remains the next amazing Lexus. The RC F, launched in 2014, 04 a closely guarded secret. That it exists is a tribute has been described as one of the most exhilarating After hundreds of hours testing on the Fuji to the persistence of one man – Akio Toyoda – and sports coupés ever created. Its performance was Speedway in Japan, they were ready to share his personal passion for performance. Although a then injected into the GS F saloon in 2015. The their “skunk works” project with senior Lexus member of the influential Toyoda family (and the craftsman-tuned V8 engine in both these F line executives. The car’s hand-built V8 engine and only board member with a racing driver’s licence), cars is nothing short of audacious, yet inside they amazing handling, generated so much excitement Toyoda-san was initially unable to persuade top embody the sophisticated refinement, finish and 01 The iconic Lexus LFA supercar took that the project was quickly given the green light. management of the project’s importance. luxury you expect from a Lexus. Whether on a And so the Lexus IS F, and with it the F line, were thrilling country road or on a routine business trip, 10 years to develop 02 The V8-powered GS F high- born. The team went on to test and tune the IS F at “Everyone argued against the LFA proposal,” Akio they deliver a driving pleasure that is extraordinary. performance saloon the legendary Nürburgring Nordschleife, Circuit Toyoda recalls. “By supporting the LFA, I became 03 The F line badge depicts Fuji Paul Ricard, Zolder and Laguna Seca, before it was isolated in my own company. Today they give me Now, the Lexus F line story begins a new chapter. Speedway’s most demanding launched at the 2007 Detroit Auto Show. credit, but back then they said ‘Are you crazy?’” Stories are told in words, but no words will prepare Book a Test Drive Book a Test corners you for the enthralling experience that awaits at the 04 Forged IS F alloy wheels inspired by Look closely at the F line badge and you can trace In time, Toyoda-san won people over with his belief wheel of the new RC F. the Japanse ‘Katana’ sword the racetrack origin in its shape, which mirrors Fuji that the LFA could be “the secret sauce” that would 05 The new generation RC F is now Speedway’s most demanding curves. Every F line add extra spice to every new Lexus. available in Track Edition 05 04 RC F RC F 05 BRAVE DESIGN BRAVE DESIGN SHAPED FOR THE View Offers View RACETRACK 01 Opened in 2013, the Lexus wind tunnel is one of the most advanced of its kind Build Your RC F RC Build Your 02 Full-size Lexus cars are tested in the 22-metre high, 260-metre long loop 03 Front and side aerodynamic refinements on the new Lexus RC F 01 03 The first thing that strikes you about the Lexus understand precisely how air travels around it,” A thick, fast-moving stream of smoke is released to aerodynamic laboratory is its size. Situated in says Murayama-san. To maintain this airflow, reveal how air travels around the RC F. Next, the Japan’s Aichi prefecture, close to the Lexus Design the tunnel’s loop is punctuated by metal slats, wind turbine is put into action, unleashing winds Centre, the lab’s custom-built wind tunnel is a which are slanted at a precise angle to guide that can reach hurricane speeds of up to 150 mph. cavernous, 22-metre high, 260-metre long loop. If the air through smoothly. How the air flows All the time, a team of engineers monitor each it were stretched out and tipped on its end, it would around a vehicle is key to measuring the drag and minute aspect of the RC F’s behaviour, tweaking, be as tall as many of Tokyo’s highest skyscrapers. downforce – the less drag and more downforce reacting, adjusting and fine-tuning. there is, the better a car will perform on the road Its opening in 2013 was a significant moment for or racetrack. Chief Engineer Yuuichi Tsurumoto describes the Lexus. It set the signal for the brand as a global new RC F as “honed to perfection in the wind automotive leader in the field of aerodynamics, the “When a normal car is cruising at 60 mph, drag tunnel”. By simulating racetrack conditions in science of how airflow affects a car’s performance. accounts for as much as 70 percent of the forces the laboratory, Lexus could bank on immediate The perfect place, therefore, to develop the affecting driving performance,” says Murayama- feedback without having to leave the premises. aerodynamic package for the new Lexus RC F. san. “With a high-performance Lexus like the What’s more, innovative prototype parts, such as Find a Centre RC F GT3 race car, aerodynamics can make the small stabiliser fins made with on-site 3D printers, “Right from the first super-refined LS 400 flagship difference between victory or failure.” could be quickly and easily put to the test. saloon, through to the LS 430 (developed in the same wind tunnel as the Shinkansen Bullet Train), So what goes on inside the lab? First, the car is “Each part of the RC F aero package is designed Lexus has always considered aerodynamics one wheeled onto a turntable weighing scale in the to within a millimetre. We go through every of the most important areas of research,” says central testing room.