SURPRISE! Lexus does a sports car.

Byline: WES RAYNAL if you're like us, you have wondered just what benefit Toyota gets from spending hundreds of millions of dollars to be smacked around by Ferrari, Williams, McLaren and Renault in Formula One. Sell more Priuses perhaps? Doubt it. Well, wonder no more: Toyota dropped the Lexus LF-A sports car concept on the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

A sports car from stodgy old Lexus? Yup. And, as we tend to say around here, but wait, there's more: The company claims a strong link between the concept and its move in to Formula One. Is that for real or ...

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