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We’ve got our hands on the exceptional Porsche Carrera GT, and it’s facing off against one of the most famous Japanese exports of all-time - the Lexus LFA!
The question is, which of these legendary V10s will come out on top? Let’s check out the stats…
Starting with the Porsche, it’s powered by a 5.7-litre naturally-aspirated V1- that delivers 612hp and 590Nm. This power is sent to the rear wheels only via a 6-speed manual gearbox, and the car weighs in at 1,380kg. When it was first released, it cost around £330,000, but as of today, it’s valued at about £2,000,000!
Next up, we have the Lexus LFA. It’s powered by a 4.8-litre naturally-aspirated V10, and this creates 560hp and 480Nm. Power is sent to the rear wheels only via a 6-speed auto gearbox, and the car tips the scales at £340,000. As new, it cost around £340,000, but as of today, it’s valued at around £750,000.
So how will this play out - will the auto gearbox of the LFA power it to victory? Or will the extra power in the Porsche propel it to the finish line first? There’s only one way to find out for sure… LET’S RACE!
The question is, which of these legendary V10s will come out on top? Let’s check out the stats…
Starting with the Porsche, it’s powered by a 5.7-litre naturally-aspirated V1- that delivers 612hp and 590Nm. This power is sent to the rear wheels only via a 6-speed manual gearbox, and the car weighs in at 1,380kg. When it was first released, it cost around £330,000, but as of today, it’s valued at about £2,000,000!
Next up, we have the Lexus LFA. It’s powered by a 4.8-litre naturally-aspirated V10, and this creates 560hp and 480Nm. Power is sent to the rear wheels only via a 6-speed auto gearbox, and the car tips the scales at £340,000. As new, it cost around £340,000, but as of today, it’s valued at around £750,000.
So how will this play out - will the auto gearbox of the LFA power it to victory? Or will the extra power in the Porsche propel it to the finish line first? There’s only one way to find out for sure… LET’S RACE!
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00:06what will win in a drag race between a porsche carrera gt and a lexus lfa are we going to
00:12find
00:12out by racing them over the standing quarter mile i am so excited this is my dream car i've
00:18always wanted to drive one i haven't until now in a drag race one very first time though i am
00:22super nervous because these cars have a notoriously tricky clutch and they're expensive to brake but
00:28easy to brake let me tell you about this wonderful porsche carrera gt so it's got a 5.7 liter
00:40naturally
00:40aspirated v10 engine driving the rear wheels by a six-speed manual gearbox with a lovely wooden gear
00:46knob we've got 612 horsepower 590 newton meters of torque and this car weighs 1380 kilos new back in
00:552005 this was 330 000 pounds and porsche struggled to sell them however today this particular car is
01:01worth about 2 million pounds i've got to be very careful but i'm not good at being careful next to
01:08me is the lexus lfa it has a 4.8 liter naturally aspirated v10 with 560 horsepower 480 newton
01:16meters of torque driving the rear wheels by a six-speed automatic gearbox that car weighs in
01:21at 1480 kilos and back in 2010 it costs about 340 000 pounds today that car's worth 750 000 pounds
01:30here's a quick recap of the car stats side by side now let's quickly talk to its driver his name
01:34is
01:34martinez from dk engineering martinez how are you keeping well thank you how are you i am excited and
01:41nervous i mean you've got an easy job you've got an automatic i've got a manual one of the trickiest
01:45manuals known in a production car and a very expensive production car but the thing about
01:53these cars is the sound v10 engines reminds me of formula one back in the day
02:00which car do you think sounds the best out of these two i might be biased but i think it's
02:04mine
02:04yours looks the loudest in that yellow paint but i think mine might be the loudest and the best sounding
02:09let's do a sound check i'm going to go first and i'm going to just load my window a bit
02:14so i'll get
02:14induction and exhaust here we go everybody
02:24oh look at the way that revs
02:27uh god then beat that let's give it a go
02:35sounds wicked as well so that engine and exhaust was actually tuned by yamaha their music division
02:39not like the bike division that's what it sounds but which do you think sounds the best let me know
02:43in the comments i'm going for this sounds like a formula one car
02:49what do you do at dk engineering i do a bit of sales and a bit of quality control but
02:53it's a small
02:54team we do a bit of everything if you drive that car and it performs badly it's not going to
02:58do well
02:58for sales is it martinez no pressure fortunately for us it's already sold does the person who's
03:03bought it know that it's actually going on this drag race we'll find out when the video is live
03:08you've told them you must have told have you told them i think we have yeah they know i think
03:15oh
03:15dear well if you just bought a lexus lfa in yellow it's been drag race on car wow you can
03:20see it right
03:20now how's that though for like you've bought a car a bit of posterity you've got a video of it
03:25competing against the carrera gt what an amazing matchup now do you know what i've never driven one
03:29of these cars so i've got to drive it down the runway for the very first time if you want
03:33to warm
03:33up your car as well we're going to go up and down get a feel for them no problem give
03:36it a go the
03:38clutch is a bit like on my 911 st so you don't apply any throttle you just lift off the
03:42clutch
03:42once it's fully engaged then you go here we go do not stall do not stall do not stall do
03:47not stall
03:47did not stall there we go now i'm off i've waited for this moment for 20 years 20 years
04:01i want you to see my eyes actually i'm going to take these off because i'm like a little bit
04:04emotional about it that as a kid i say kid i wish i was a kid but as a younger
04:10motoring journalist
04:11writing news stories never got anywhere near cars like this back in the day here i am i better put
04:17these back on because they've got prescription lenses in them i can't see bugger all without them
04:26that is lush
04:34wow what a special moment thank you to the chap that led me this you know who you are you're
04:39a
04:40legend and you've made one motoring journalist dream come true when people ask me what car
04:45could you have if you could have any i do sometimes get stuck because i've driven so many but
04:49yeah it's going to be this so martinez how's your car feeling feels amazing but super comfortable
04:54everything's reliable it's a lexus do you have launch control i do yeah i don't and back
04:59to that expensive clutch i'm not going to launch this i'm not going to actually do it from a
05:03standstill because i'd have to dump the clutch and that could destroy it in one go and we want
05:08some racing and i don't want to destroy someone's car more is the point so what we're going to do
05:12is we're going to roll in so i'm going to engage the clutch and we're just going to like chug
05:15along
05:16to the start line and the starter will start us as soon as his hands go down we go and
05:20we race over
05:21the quarter mile we'll see which is the quickest here we go you want to go sideways destroy that
05:49lexus oh he's coming back
06:02oh
06:02martinez you got done stood up unfortunately maybe i slept on the launch i'm not sure yeah i think so
06:08because once we were going i wasn't increasing the gap i think you can do a better job than that
06:12have a little practice there just have a little practice
06:25there it is i knew it was going to happen a stall and that guy's filming it
06:32all right martinez you reckon you can do it this time watch out here comes the lfa i'm not convinced
06:37about this this is just it's always there
06:53oh
07:16oh he's got a smile on his face this time photo finish you had me there didn't you hair
07:21basically yeah i'm being careful with the gear changes that i want to money shift because that
07:26will cost a lot of money all right all right all right so it's one each see you back down
07:32there right
07:33what i'm going to do i'm just going to floor the throttle this i'm going to bleed it in because
07:36the
07:36traction control comes in and because this car is like 2005 the traction control system is pretty
07:42thick it just cuts the power so i'm just going to be more smoother hopefully that'll work
07:50progressive with the power watson progressive with the power going on the gear shifts you can do it man
07:53three
08:02better get a shift
08:10this one needs to shift well
08:33and that's my friend is that good shifting
08:40so then what exactly happened well the porsche one it completed the rolling quarter mile in 12.1
08:45seconds the lexus took 12.2 seconds all right let's do a rolling race but let's go for a bit
08:52longer because that seems to pick up speed at the top end both of these cars are 200 mile an
08:56hour cars
08:56so let's see what happens when we go a bit faster things could change we're going to roll in second
09:01gear 30 miles an hour and then race over the half mile right martinez second gear rolling copy three
09:08two one go that was actually 40 miles an hour
09:19come on my darling gt it's close
09:42i didn't bother changing up i didn't want a money shift go from fourth into third that would have
09:47just been so expensive
09:51so i was just like oh just that's it red we'll just cross the line don't need to change i
09:56don't think
09:56i'll put this into fifth gear yet it was really really close and then this just started to gap didn't
10:00it i didn't have a chance i think i mean that might be due with the fact this is lighter
10:04and
10:04it has more torque but let's try it in a different gear let's try it in third from 50. i
10:09had to do
10:10that don't stall don't stall don't stall don't stall oh there it is ah this is harder than the st
10:17ever so slightly harder and ever so slightly more expensive my concern with these cars if i owned one
10:21was the delivery drivers knowing that because delivery drivers having to get the car up on a ramp on a
10:26truck if they don't know what they're doing they're going to be applying throttle and that is not good
10:31let's practice fifth gear because i'm probably gonna have to use it now fourth
10:37fifth fifth it's pretty clear all that though
10:46oh i think this sounds better than the lfa the lfa you can tell it's been tuned to sound good
10:54this just sounds the way it sounds because the engine is doing its job the exhaust is doing its job
11:00it doesn't sound like it's been artificially tuned to sound good it just is that is a load of waffle
11:06but i think you understand what i'm trying to say right now we get a third gear roll on 50
11:10miles an
11:10hour over the half mile before we do if you're thinking about changing your car you can do it
11:13through car wow you can sell your current car through car have dealers all across the country
11:16bid on it or you can buy your next car through car wow either use new or lease your car
11:22head to
11:22car wow to check it out or there's a link in the description or scan the qr code on screen
11:26now
11:26okay let's do this third gear downstairs downstairs downstairs downstairs downstairs downstairs downstairs
11:33good okay get level martinez three two one go
11:37not anymore good change good change
12:16right let's just face facts this carrera gt is faster than superior to the lfa i wouldn't say
12:21superior but it's definitely faster it is bloody super it is okay which one would you rather have
12:27ignore the money which would you rather have porsche carrera gt hypercar or an lfa supercar
12:32i'd have this in a heartbeat i think it's easier to use and live with despite the cgt being a
12:36convertible which makes it tough to choose but it's still the lfa for me let's do a brake test
12:41here we go here's the cones
12:53that wasn't great that wasn't great at all the lfa destroyed this there's a lot of abs going on
12:58absolutely smash me well at least i can do something which is stop if i can't beat you at
13:03sheer pace oh my god that was a little bit worrying that was maybe the tires are a touch old
13:07old cars
13:08don't tend to break so well that is one thing you really notice with modern cars breaking performance
13:11and the abs the way it works is massively improved likewise the fact that the carrera gt is quicker
13:17despite being older and breaking performance is irrelevant you'll still slow down on those carbon
13:23brakes oh see it's coming around to it now isn't it's coming around to it but is it really the
13:28best
13:29all-round hypercar maybe something slightly later like the porsche 918 spider or maybe a ferrari or
13:34maybe it's actually the mclaren p1 to decide watch the video on screen now we drag race them anyway
13:39listen i hope you'll enjoy the video if you did give it a like let me know some other cars
13:43you'd like
13:43to see race in the comments below thanks for watching and i'll see you very very very soon
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