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this is it the headliner the main event
after years of Lex's promising to make
less boring cars and instead giving us
countless spindle grille facelift the
2018 LC 500 is here as the brand-new
northstar it's the official halo to mark
where toyota's luxury brand is hidden
this is the car that we hoped in
bringing an end to the relentless
mentions of foreign cars which are
themselves needlessly boring and beside
not boring is a terrible metric for
evaluation
what lexus is really trying to do is
give its cars some spirit to transcend
the paint by number of stereotype that
made this brand new luxury juggernaut is
today by that yardstick the LC 500 is a
success simply based on how it looks
it's beautiful in a way that we couldn't
predict from the 2012 lf-lc concept that
foreshadowed it the kind of beauty where
instead of reflexively grabbing your
phone to take a picture you just stand
there and keep looking and pictures
don't do this car justice
anyway they soften the edges and reduce
the massive draw of the white shoulders
in person looking straight at the LC the
car looks like it's eighty percent
in the rest of the lineup the trademark
lexus girls execution ranges from
character your RC to watch note job LX
hear it pulls everything together from
every other angle the LC has some
feature that seems excessive in the best
way possible
the proportions of the LC give off a
distinctively functional vibe and it's
genuine
that was so long because the five dot 0
litre v8 center-of-mass three-and-a-half
inches behind the front axle the extra
space up front is mostly empty lexus
uses high-strength steel cross braces to
shore up torsional rigidity instead of
adding structure ahead of the front
wheels and the battery sits under the
trunk floor for all the visual
excitement the LC is still a
conventional vehicle
aside from some advancements in the LC
500 words hybrid powertrain the
innovation here is that the iterative
type it's interesting in that lexus is
betting on emotional appeal and driving
character at a time when the future
relevance of both is up for debate if
anything the LC is a car for the current
automotive world not the one to come and
despite extensive use of aluminum and
sheet molded carbon dlc 500 weighs in at
a hefty 4280 pounds that's right in line
with the BMW 6-series and a good deal
below the bailey s mercedes-benz s-class
coupe 4700 pounds
but the benz is all-wheel drive and the
porsche carrera by comparison weighs
1,000 pounds less but did we mention the
LC 500 and beautiful
yes this car looks so good it can get
away with some extra weight it can get
away with a lot of things actually there
is raw emotional appeal to the LC and
that's what lexus and toyota has been
missing so we give the LC 500 pass on
the wide or silly low seating position
that make ingress and egress slightly
challenging to do for the shift lever
which mimics the pattern of the Creoles
and take some learning at least you'll
be comfortable while you bus with
putting the car into drive
Alexis went through more than 50 c
designs to arrive at the two available
but conversions adjustment is limited to
six directions plus four-way lumbar
support
that's all you need here just a few
simple movements for maximum comfort we
prefer the extra bolstering the optional
sports seats but both are as close to
perfect as you can find today
Alexis went so far as to variable entity
of the phone that different points in
the side bolster with resonance service
that had stiffness right where you need
extra bracing it's those kinds of
details that make the interior equally
as lovely as the outside take the door
pulls at another example in most cars
there is some kind of housing around the
handle hiding the way the mechanism
slots in through the trim panel in the
LC that handles its naked like a lone
tree in the field of Alcantara all of
the trim is stitched by hand all of the
leather is soft and none of the joints
or mating surfaces inside the LC reveal
the method of assembly
it's the kind of fine-tuning the sets
apart established luxury brands and
calls out the aspiring one with the LC
interior lexus is showing craftsmanship
that belongs in the upper tier
lexus wants the LC to be a driver's car
and so the cockpit is focused on the
instrument cluster which is just as well
because that allows you to ignore the
fussy touchpad interface for the
infotainment system
seriously we barely used it on our test
drive the essential functions radio and
climate control are operated by hard
buttons adaptive cruise control and
collision mitigation our standard so
there's a safety net should you attempt
operating at force-feedback touchpad
while trying to do anything else such as
driving in front of the steering wheel
sits a single digital dial flanked by
temperature and fuel display like in
other lectures models the color and
design changes with the driving mode but
going back to the driver centric meet
the drive modes are selected by an
object juts out of the right side of the
gauge cluster housing right at hand
level twist toward you to toggle between
comfort and eco twist the way for sport
s and sport s plus or push the button on
the end for normal in custom settings in
identical knob on the Left adjust the
stability control but has so few options
it seems like a wasted opportunity the
headlights which could have gone there
and allowed for a skinnier turn signal
stalk as things are like to smooth the
head light turn signal stock higher on
the steering column for easier use as
some point we have to mention that the
LC 500 has two rear seats they look
comfortable but are not our five foot
nine inch frame won't fit under the low
Ruth without serious contortions the
back then is best left for the unlikely
child seat for extra storage reporting
duty fulfilled
we'd rather tell you what the LC 500 is
like to drive
first the good which centers around the
v8 it's largely the same unit found in
the GSF in RC F but some specifics weeks
resulting 471 horsepower and 398
pound-feet of torque
this engine is why we questioned
turbocharging and downsizing because
horsepower and low RPM torque don't give
you goosebumps big displacements roaring
towards redline do the else he has a
resonator two-bit transmit the intake
sounds straight into the cabin to make
sure you can hear that roar + electric
exhaust flaps to help anyone outside the
car it's loud within a frontline lexus
like way rather than the borderline and
the social how the jaguar f-type if only
the throttle and transmission had the
same balance of aggressiveness and
manners here
lexus went to step too far in an effort
to be sporty the ten-speed automatic
moves the lock-up clutch inside the
transmission housing instead of
packaging it in the torque converter
which allows for a stronger multipla
design and faster shifts but they're a
little too fast and hard in the sport
year drive mode then there's the lack of
smoothness into throttle which comes on
with a suddenness that makes the car
lurched it was less of a problem during
our laps at circuito montemagno than on
the roads surrounding nearby seville
spain the safety margin of driving fast
on the street often means you enter a
corner slower and dial and throttle as
you go but even on the track the abrupt
nature of the gas pedal upset and
otherwise balanced and smooth car our
time on this circuit was a great way to
explore the LC 500 limits but this is
not really a car for the track anymore
than the other members of the large poop
fraternity are the LC is more of a
gentleman's sports car a vehicle best
suited to speeding along a favored road
that said the brakes hold up to track
abuse and the balanced chassis lets you
control the backhand with the throttle
the staring and linear and accurate but
in line with the modern paradigm for
feedback very little
don't mistake gentlemen for slow the LC
500 gets to 60 miles per hour from a
standstill in 4.4 seconds and it has a
linear acceleration feel well into
triple digit speed years 2 through 9 are
almost evenly spaced which means you
never get stuck at a bad point in the
rev range
none of the performance related options
on the LC 500 changed the suspension
setup or the engine power available
stuff includes a limited-slip
differential 21-inch wheels with
aggressive summer tires variable ratio
steering with rear-wheel steering a
carbon fiber roof and a spoiler that
extends from the trunk with alexis is
still working on this specific packages
and options ahead of the main 2017
on-sale date
the test car we drove had the variable
steering which we can praise for the
fact that we didn't notice it was there
still we doubt much is lost in the
experience without this feature the rest
of the purchase specifics are just as
murky lexus will only commit to a
starting price under a hundred grand and
you believe a fully-loaded LC 500 will
top out around 120,000 dollars only
about 400 units are expected to come to
the United States a month for an annual
rate of 4800 cars Alexis says about
eighty-five percent of those will be a
test the rest will be LC 500 hours
hybrids
at such low volume dlc isnt going to
redefine lexus the way the original LS
shock the automotive world but this car
is hugely significant for another reason
it shows that Lexus can create an object
of irrational desire to put it another
way
this is a car you want not a car you
need and we lost after the LC 500 not
because it checks all the boxes but
because it's more than the sum of its
specifications it does most everything
well it has some flaws but more than
anything it has character
welcome to the new Lexus
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