pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/japan/" rel="tag"Japan/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag"Supercars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/lexus/" rel="tag"Lexus/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-lexus-lf-a-nurburgring-24-livery/1518323/"img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/lfa_ring09.jpg" //abr /div align="center"emstrong/strong/em/divstrong /strongdiv align="center"strongemstrongsmallClick above for a larger view of the Lexus LF-A's 2009 Nuuml;rburgring 24 livery /small/strong/embr //strong/divstrong br //strongToyota scion (pun intended) and new company president a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/01/09/all-in-the-family-toyoda-grandson-to-take-top-job/"Akio Toyoda/a will don a helmet and Nomex late next month as his company returns to Germany to compete in the annual Nurburgring 24-hour endurance race. Toyoda will be part of the four-driver lineup taking the wheel of the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/04/21/official-toyota-to-campaign-lexus-lf-a-in-24-hours-of-nurburgri/"Lexus LF-A/a (hey, remember that?) as part of its ongoing (and seemingly endless) development. Unlike last year, when the LF-A showed up to race in plain 'ol a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/27/spy-shots-lexus-lf-a-snapped-post-crash-more-details-revealed/"development-mule matte black/a, Toyota's got a more proper race livery planned for this year's event (see above). After all, we can't have the boss rolling like every other test engineer, can we? emThanks, Dom!/embr /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-lexus-lf-a-nurburgring-24-livery/"2009 Lexus LF-A Nurburgring 24 Livery/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-lexus-lf-a-nurburgring-24-livery/1518323/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/img6_20090422_16410488_1_l_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Lexus LF-A in 2009 N24 livery" title="Lexus LF-A in 2009 N24 livery" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-lexus-lf-a-nurburgring-24-livery/1518324/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/04/610x_thumbnail.jpg" alt="Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota" title="Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota" //a/divbr /br /[Source: AP via a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20090425a1.html"The Japan Times/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/26/new-toyota-chief-to-race-in-nurburgring-24/"New Toyota chief to race in Nürburgring 24/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 09:09:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20090425a1.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/26/new-toyota-chief-to-race-in-nurburgring-24/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1528376/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2009/04/26/new-toyota-chief-to-race-in-nurburgring-24/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/apa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FxMl9Uf7Tg0vPHPfDoMfGdIQPJg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/FxMl9Uf7Tg0vPHPfDoMfGdIQPJg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare"a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Qn1oXEU4ATgpCWs_yxgkc:wF9xT3WuBAs"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Qn1oXEU4ATgpCWs_yxgkc:wF9xT3WuBAs" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Qn1oXEU4ATgpCWs_yxgkc:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Qn1oXEU4ATgpCWs_yxgkc:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a/divimg src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/Qn1oXEU4ATg" height="1" width="1"/

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