Testing the greatest ever V10 supercars: Porsche Carrera GT vs Lexus LFA
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Stop what you're doing right now and turn this one up LOUD
We could go into a short spiel outlining the various ways the car industry has turned its back on machines like these two. How electrification is changing the landscape. What the future of the supercar looks like.
But that's... not really fun. What's more fun is going into a longer, much more entertaining spiel celebrating machines like these two. And more specifically, the engines that power them.
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A warm welcome back then, assembled friends, to two beautiful, glorious, unhinged V10s. And the cars they're barely restrained in: the Porsche Carrera GT and Lexus LFA.
So stop what you're doing - especially that - sit back, turn it up really very loud, and allow Top Gear's Jethro Bovingdon and Ollie Marriage to throw it back to one of the very finest eras in the history of the motor car. You might like
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