What is Toyotas fastest car?
The fastest Toyota-branded road-legal car is the Lexus LFA, which reaches about 202 mph. This article explains why that car holds the record and what other high-speed Toyota machines exist in the brand’s lineup, across road cars and racing machines.
How speed is defined for this comparison
When people ask which Toyota is the fastest, it’s important to distinguish between road-legal production cars, limited-run specials, and race vehicles. Top speed on a highway or track is influenced by power, weight, aerodynamics and electronic limits, and racing machines often exceed road-car speeds but aren’t street-legal. This piece focuses primarily on street-legal production cars, then notes notable racing entries for context.
Road-legal production leader: Lexus LFA
Key specifications that underpin the LFA’s speed are listed below.
- Engine: 4.8-liter naturally aspirated V10
- Power: 552 horsepower (412 kW)
- Transmission: 6-speed automated manual with hydraulically actuated clutch
- Top speed: electronically limited to 202 mph (325 km/h)
- 0–60 mph: about 3.6 seconds
- Production run: 2010–2012, 500 units built
- Original price at launch: around $375,000
In summary, the LFA’s combination of a high-revving V10, advanced chassis tuning, and a bespoke transmission gave Toyota a road-legal halo car with record-setting straight-line speed for the brand.
Other Toyota speed machines (race and concept)
Beyond road-legal production cars, Toyota has pursued higher speeds on the track and in concept form. The following illustrate how the brand pushes speed outside the showroom.
- GR010 Hybrid (Le Mans Hypercar): built for the FIA World Endurance Championship and Le Mans; race-only, not street-legal; designed to achieve very high track speeds with advanced hybrid power.
- GR Super Sport (concept): a high-performance hypercar concept showcased to signal Toyota’s performance direction; not produced for sale and not road-legal.
These racing and concept models demonstrate Toyota’s speed ambitions in contexts where street-legal limits don’t apply, even as the LFA remains the fastest production Toyota to date.
Summary
The Lexus LFA, with a top speed of 202 mph, holds Toyota’s record for the fastest road-legal car. Toyota’s other fastest-speed efforts live in racing and concept programs—GR010 Hybrid and the GR Super Sport—where speeds can far exceed road limits but are not available to the public. Taken together, Toyota’s speed story blends exclusive production hardware with cutting-edge racing technology, spanning street and track alike.
