Is Toyota planning to build a new 2012 Lexus GS?

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   Lexus is now planning to build a M-5 fighter by taking the 500-plus-horsepower, Formula 1-inspired sub-5.0-liter V-10 from the 2010 Lexus LF-A supercar, and planning it to drop in the body of the new 2011 GS sedan, and manufacture a 2012 Lexus GS-F. BMW M-5, Audi R6 and Mercedez-Benz E 63 AMG and Cadillac CTS will have to keep an eye on this progress.
   
   Although the details are sketchy, but engineers are said to be protecting next-generation GS to be able to package the supercar's V-10. The GS-F has not been approved for production. It would cut down engine costs through higher volume than by building it for the exclusive supercar.
   
   This is a kind of official notice that a V-10 has emerged as the engine Lexus will use in its supercar. Lexus hasn't announced the engine yet, or even made the supercar official, but Toyota was said to be considering it either the V-10 or a twin-turbo version of the latest LS sedan's V-8. The new V-10 was to be based on Toyota Formula 1, but that series now uses a V-8 engine, and the street engine has been developed with little connection to the racing engine.
   
   The GS-F, would hit the streets about a year after an all-new GS scheduled for the 2011 model year. Expect visual modifications similar to those of the forthcoming V-8-powered IS-F. Transmission would probably be of eight-speed automatic from the LS 460, which was then modified to allow full manual mode via paddles and ultrafast shifts.
   
    

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