Lexus LF-A has one really cool meter panel!

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There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to the Lexus LF-A. The exterior may look a little soft and boring but I’m in love with the cool instrument panel. The rev meter can actually physically move around according to the display’s needs! You’ll see what I mean in the video after the jump. Trust the Japanese to come up with something as techno-funky as this – totally gimmicky but damn cool.

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  • Kington on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:10 am

    Cool!

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  • hotwheeler on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:13 am

    insanely cool!

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  • really cooool….. want this one

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  • nice.

    Can it be programed to do Para-para Sakura?

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  • Aalloonngg (Member) on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:30 am

    OMG! Really super duper damn cool!!! Just gotta keep it as 1 of the items in my wishlist..

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  • the only thing that moves is the front Ring of the Rev meter. the rest is one piece of LCD panel. but that does make a damn good, and i am serious , a damn good effect !

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  • very cool..

    i want this to my car..

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  • cool..lcd..can hack later to play movie on it…lol

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  • moongrey (Member) on Nov 14, 2009 at 4:10 am

    want one??just pay GBP 350,000 and u can have it …hheheehehhe

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  • redfueler on Nov 14, 2009 at 4:10 am

    awesome!

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  • gosh~how cool is tat!!..wat r their brains made of?..haha

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  • carneo on Nov 14, 2009 at 5:21 am

    OOh nice OdO meter !

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  • better keep ur eye on the road than the odo.

    esp. car that fast

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  • somebody on Nov 14, 2009 at 6:08 am

    does the car really move when accelerating?

    cos the trip shows 0.0km

    or is this a simulator? the camera doesnt shake at all..

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  • Fuiyoh… the meter looks like from GUNDAM or MACROSS. Japanese really can do wonder with technology. I wonder if they got inspired from MANGA.

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  • I want it in my iswara!!!! hahaha

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  • yippi33 on Nov 14, 2009 at 6:55 am

    vlwh said,

    totally agree with u dude. read in the paper a couple of weeks ago about Honda's single tyred motorbike…a resemblance of Bulma's capsule corp bike in Dragon Ball..totally cool!!perhaps malaysian will get their inspiration from Upin & Ipin…correct3!

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  • HO DAMN! thats one cool meter!

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  • WhiteFox on Nov 14, 2009 at 7:30 am

    Time for external RPM/Boots meter manufacture to make something similar to this

    It will be one of the cool gadget in car haha

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  • txqtxqtxq on Nov 14, 2009 at 7:35 am

    That's a breakthrough Odometer, better than the lamboghini reventon!

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  • just like in video games…

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  • RickyG on Nov 14, 2009 at 8:07 am

    The will be in future accident, when police come by ask why…

    Polis, "Tunjuk lesen…"

    Driver "aiyoh tok… i was distracted with my cool animation dashboard!"

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  • klakaseram on Nov 14, 2009 at 8:57 am

    the display panel must be using OLED

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  • Gumpert Apollo S on Nov 14, 2009 at 9:05 am

    more feel like a race game display panel….

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  • Mazda 3 MPS on Nov 14, 2009 at 9:28 am

    this looks like a gran turismo game machine

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  • aksMs on Nov 14, 2009 at 9:33 am

    That is so F-fing cool!

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  • keyboard rosak on Nov 14, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    boring…

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  • mystvearn on Nov 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    10 more years, you will see that in affordable cars.

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  • chew ban on Nov 14, 2009 at 5:16 pm

    AWESOME U JAPANESE WEIRDO DOOD

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  • Ralph on Nov 14, 2009 at 5:46 pm

    Whoa!

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  • har1th7 on Nov 14, 2009 at 7:55 pm

    i think this can compete with reventon display… both are equal with technologis and coolness….

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  • Insane… o.o

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  • alldisc on Nov 15, 2009 at 4:53 am

    Toyota (and Lexus)…. simply out of reach!

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  • c14man on Nov 15, 2009 at 7:23 am

    very cool feat!

    the odometer can be configured to show optimal shifting rpm..

    great for drag race i guess.. =)

    and i wonder how the speedometer is able to show up to 100km/h but the trip meter doesn't even add 0.1km?

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  • c14man said,
    November 14, 2009 @ 11:23 pm

    very cool feat!
    the odometer can be configured to show optimal shifting rpm..
    great for drag race i guess.. =)
    and i wonder how the speedometer is able to show up to 100km/h but the trip meter doesn’t even add 0.1km?

    naahh, that a demo unit with simulation I think. not fitted on car yet

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  • cool…hey proton, copy la…if u put this in savvy i also buy la…totally like need4speed…nice job..

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  • Sharviin Sasasey on Nov 15, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    i want this in my life!

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  • fuyiopo on Nov 15, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    Japanese just never let us down with electronic gadgets!

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  • torque (Member) on Nov 16, 2009 at 1:26 am

    It does makes sense when Lexus (Toyota) were asking for 340,000 British pound for this car!!! Bloody hell…totally cool!!

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  • tokmoh on Nov 16, 2009 at 3:58 am

    yippi33 said,

    November 13, 2009 @ 10:55 pm

    vlwh said,

    totally agree with u dude. read in the paper a couple of weeks ago about Honda’s single tyred motorbike…a resemblance of Bulma’s capsule corp bike in Dragon Ball..totally cool!!perhaps malaysian will get their inspiration from Upin & Ipin…correct3!

    >>> Savvy reminds me of Lagann, if you watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, you'll know it.

    torque : makes sense? Err… no. I think the british will still want an Aston. Europeans wouldn't pay for a cool meter panel, but they'll pay the brand. These crazy japanese… they just don't get it. Their cars just doesn't work in europe, elsewhere maybe, but in europe, Continental brand reigns supreme.

    Lexus should market LF-A to Hollywood stars. They'll have higher chance of success there.

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  • onda onda on Nov 16, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    learn more about this car at http://www.insideline.com/lexus/lf-a/2010/photos/…

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  • Typical Lexus…. attention to details…..no wonder this car cost so much.

    the technology and build material are best in business and no cost spared.

    It is a automotive masterpiece and only 500 will exist in this world….

    As the saying goes. What you see is what you get ( or paid for)…..

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  • waaalllliiiooowwweeehhhh

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  • torque (Member) on Nov 17, 2009 at 2:17 am

    tokmoh said,

    November 15, 2009 @ 7:58 pm

    torque : makes sense? Err… no. I think the british will still want an Aston. Europeans wouldn’t pay for a cool meter panel, but they’ll pay the brand. These crazy japanese… they just don’t get it. Their cars just doesn’t work in europe, elsewhere maybe, but in europe, Continental brand reigns supreme.

    Lexus should market LF-A to Hollywood stars. They’ll have higher chance of success there.

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    Can't argue with that point but I'll bet every 500 units of them will sold out no matter what we mediocre citizen says wheter its worth it or not….

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  • tokmoh on Nov 17, 2009 at 5:09 am

    Yeah, but like i said, they have better chance of selling those 500 elsewhere outside Europe.

    We always like to make assumptions that the "filthy rich", whoever they are, don't treasure their hard earned money at all. That, as long as something is overpriced, they'll buy it on reflex. Truth is, it's not always the case, especially between Japan and Europe. IMHO, it's fundamentally due to the culture. You'll know what I'm talking about if you've been to any European country.

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  • torque (Member) on Nov 17, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    tokmoh said,

    November 16, 2009 @ 9:09 pm

    Yeah, but like i said, they have better chance of selling those 500 elsewhere outside Europe.

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    Yup…and my guess it'll be the US and of course the middle East…just like the story which this dude sending his Lambo to England just for servicing…

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  • amirzaim on Nov 18, 2009 at 1:25 am

    The side blue bars in HUD is looks like the blue bar in GT4!!

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  • MazdaAstina on Nov 18, 2009 at 11:59 pm

    any1 will buy a car just on that meter alone? Say we dump that meter into a screw up car like …err… skoda …. will anyone buy a skoda now?

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  • Raqib Karim on Nov 21, 2009 at 1:18 am

    This isn't a gimmick at all, but totally necessary. The 1LR-GUE V10 engine the LF-A uses revs from idle to redline in 0.6 seconds. The engineers said a mechanical analog dial would be too slow. I guess if you've got to make a dial digital just to work, you might as well make it look like a video game interface while you're at it.

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  • mingyuyu on Nov 26, 2009 at 8:56 pm

    Wow, but I'm wondering how the meter ring ''moves''?

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  • mhafizan on Dec 03, 2009 at 9:28 am

    i guess they manipulate all the OBD cade from the ECU to be presented on that cool panel… the meter response so fast…lol..

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  • ktas09 on Apr 06, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    Like superjet speedometer. Keep up Lexus.

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