Chill out to the sound of the Japanese seaside, accompanied by the glorious revving of a Lexus LFA V10.
Now it is widely regarded in the petrolhead community that one of the best sounding engines in the world is the 1LR-GUE V10 found in the Lexus LFA. And for those who might be interested in listening to it occasionally rev for 1/8th of a day, you should be pleased to hear then that Toyota recently released an ASMR-style video on exactly that to YouTube!
A video published unlisted by Toyota’s official magazine, Toyota Times, this ASMR-style video basically just shows a Nurburgring-edition LFA intermittently being run through most of its 9,500 rpm rev range for over 3 hours. There are also a few start up sequences interspersed between the occasional blips of its throttle, while all of this auditory goodness is accompanied by beautifully-shot close ups of this vibrantly yellow Japanese supercar.
This 3-hour long ASMR video here of the LFA occasionally being revved is incidentally not to be the first time that Toyota Times has done something like that, as it had previously released a similar (and equally-long) video for a Subaru boxer found in a Levorg Layback. In fact, these videos are actually part of a wider ongoing series the publication is producing called ‘Engine Sounds for the Soul’.
As the name suggests, the ‘Engine Sounds for the Soul’ series currently being produced by Toyota Times ‘focuses on the engine sounds that enchant car fans’. It currently has 5 fascinating stories on its site which this writer would highly encourage any petrolhead to spend some time looking through. Not least because it goes really nerdy as to exactly how engineers have created all these amazing sounds, but it also features a few shorter ASMR clips of a GR Yaris revving and a Lexus LC500 being given it the beans on track as well!
Worth highlighting too is that as with the Subaru boxer video in this series alludes to, this Toyota Times series is not just about highlighting the engine sounds of its own marque only. The other automaker that has since been given the spotlight aside from the Pleiades brand is Mazda, with the story on its iconic rotary featuring some rather eargasmic clips of its Le Mans-winning 787B quad-rotor race car screaming its lungs out on track.
