Review | 2018 Lexus LC500 | Finally Something Original

If you are someone who has attended an Auto Show you have probably seen one of the different concept cars that the manufacturer shows, they say this is the future of our design, it looks so cool and then you get excited. and then after a while you realize that when they

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introduced the real model, years later, it looks like the dollar store did it and it's always a big disappointment with the LC 500. Lexus decided that they were going to try to convert your concept car actually now with this design. It's not going to be for everyone.

I have talked to many people. It's a little strange and uncomfortable. You can't tell if it's futuristic or retro. I talked to my friend Tom. I have talked to other people. The best way I can describe it is that it looks like a supercar that Toyota wanted to build in the '80s or '90s, it's like it has this kind of old school simplistic design, I mean from the side with this futuristic edge, the side The LC is where that concept comes to life, it has this long sweeping line from the back to the front, you have the rear fender arches that come out and just slope all the way to the front and that front fender design with the crease is just has a liquid look. , this paint is incredibly good, the clear coat is solid, there isn't much orange peel, yes it has its micro scratches and khana swirl marks, it will be a difficult paint to take care of, but in the right light It's amazing how well it holds up go and I think it highlights the design and the lines of this extremely well.

On the side there is more to talk about, such as the carbon reinforced roof and that is because this is completely optional with the Performance package, but as you can notice. the roof goes from chrome to body color to glass - glossy black plastic and at first the gel looks really striking, it gives you the feeling that the roof line is lower and then connects all the flowing lines, for of course, throughout the whole. car, but you know, the shiny piano black plastics are all scratched. I wish they had used glass on the entire back, but probably from a production standpoint it would be difficult to make one piece glass like that, you have air curtains on the back because the air flows along the side of the car - this kind of lengthened or wider fenders, so it was necessary to move the air there and around the rear wheels, like it does on the front wheels and it just smoothes out the overall airflow now in the front. of the car, this is where marketing and PR come into play, they talk about the Tri LED projectors in this headlight enclosure which is one of the smallest on the market, it has air curtains which most cars have drafts of air for aerodynamics and flowing from the sides. of the bumpers along the sides of the wheels, not much going on here, plenty for airflow, you don't need all the cooling because this is on a track car, there aren't 20 heat exchangers on this one thing, but the big question mark has been this grille and here it's fully realized, it integrates with the rest of the body structure, it has this fluid design, but to me, just looking at it up close, it's too busy from afar , it mixes with everything it depends on. the kind of person you are, if this is going to be offensive, now every car has to have some kind of gimmick, the LC is no different, like these door handles that open electronically, when you unlock or lock it, they go in and They come out and there is a small access.

The badge is completely unnecessary, it's not totally usable as a normal handle, but it adds that style and makes the side of the car look flatter and smoother. The next item that is constantly talked about are these tail lights and they are one of the coolest tail lights you will find, they have a mirror to give you that endless looking LED light bar that stays on and that's cool until you get to the top of these headlights and you look at this generic plastic looking aluminum foil. the top part that drags down the whole design, I mean when you see it up close it's like a child's toy or

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, it's strange overall, the rear part is one of the best assets of this car, it's the design from the bumper, it is the trunk lid, the overall design of the taillights is seen.

Looks like an exotic car to me, but the only thing I would change are these fake exhaust finishers. I think they could find a way to do it where you can show off the quad-tip exhaust while still making everything flow together. The trunk lid has an automatic lift. an electronically actuated spoiler that goes up and down at high speed and you can turn it on manually inside by pressing a button and lowering it, of course now the boot is away from the tricks, just look at this, it just pops up and releases, goes up and down. through struts and when you close it, it doesn't close automatically, it doesn't lock automatically, the doors don't lock automatically, so there are elements here in terms of engineering and design that are simpler, they haven't over complicated everything.

Of the things that make mid-level luxury cars good, they're not overly complicated, it's here now, trunk space of course is compromised, you don't have much headroom, the cargo floor is higher and The depth, well, the rear seats are pretty close. so you don't have a lot of storage space, but the best part is that there is a lot of width. I can place my slider. I can fit my camera bag and almost all my equipment. I think you could probably fit it in a larger carry-on. bags, you know the type of wheels in the back and some extra things or you like to travel, so it is usable, but you know there is a compromise of course, that's what this car is about, getting into the LC 500 is

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We probably won't experience it too often and that's largely because the attention to detail here is incredibly good for a car in this price range and it's one of the most spectacular parts now yes, this is the option I'll give. The Alcantara seats do have some of the fluffier features like the full Alcantara headliner, but I'm telling you, even though this color is a bit strange, it wouldn't be my first choice. I spent a lot of time here marveling and I don't normally do that with cars anymore because you know you see one, you see them all, but this is something extremely special, so what do I mean by that?

It's the way the dashboard is wrapped in leather, all the edges, the contours, the stitching, the unsubtle. designs on the hood in terms of the Alcantara, the metal trim along the speaker, the grille, the ventilation, the HVAC controls, they all feel like something tailor-made for this car and when I say that, people say that a lot, but that's how it is. something unique: 90 percent of this is not shared with any other Lexus. There are some remnants. Someone asked me on a live broadcast. Well, what are the pieces? The stock turn signals feel like they're straight out of a Toyota.

Some of the buttons. on the steering wheel or a little too generic and stand out too much the magnesium shift paddles all there are the perfect shape they feel good they look good they still feel like plastic even though they are magnesium there are little things like that you will understand , but complaining about it from a craft perspective is like a criminal. I feel bad even being picky about this car, the detail doesn't end with...it's the door panels, the door frame is carbon reinforced plastic, you can see the way the door design is totally unique you look at it as if it were different.

The door panel has this long, wide line that curves, it's very fluid, very similar to the design of the car and they have this kind of hidden handle in the material and that's where I say this feels and looks more like a exotic or ultra expensive car, although it is expensive, it is not that expensive. When you look at a vehicle like the Acura NSX, another type of expensive Japanese car, that interior is straight from Kmart. it's like something out of a thirty thousand dollar record, this looks legitimately like $200,000 here now of course there are other aspects of the interior like night lighting or ambient lighting, it's so simple and elegant they also light up this grille panel on the center. stack or center: area that gives that textured look at night when you close the door, everything surrounds you, it feels like a bespoke interior and that's what I'm talking about, it's one of the intangibles of car design, how do you does?

You feel like it gives you an emotional reaction and this car feels special to me, it has a presence inside and out, it has a WOW factor and that's something that's really hard to do in modern cars, there's so many things I can do. . From the carpet design to the quality of all touch points, it's one of those vehicles where you just have to get in, you really appreciate if you can go to a Lexus dealership just to sit in one, even if you can't afford it. , I guarantee you. You'll be impressed, but now it's time to talk about the reality, the negatives, let's get into it.

The Lexus shifter made this claim that they were able to free up a lot of space, which reduced the complication of having a digital shifter here. The digital shifter is like what ZF transmissions have been doing, what American car companies like Chrysler did and now revert to a shifter or detent. This electronic shifter has an ECU just for shifting and an electronic actuator to move the cable to shift. Parking and shifting and all that is unnecessarily complicated and what it does is that it is also a usability problem. I'm constantly putting on a neutral accent. I don't know when I'm in manual mode because manual modes are straight down, but you have to push it to the left to get into a drive, they're trying to fix something that was never broken to begin with, all to save space, next Problem is the type of usability, there is not much storage space in this car. there's a lot less than you think there would be the glove box it's small and has some sort of electronic release it's very smooth it's very light it's well designed but there's not a lot of space in there, you have only one cup holder here which of course you know will get in the way the HVAC control so the door pockets are small there is basically no room for anything but your phone you can't put a bottle in there and there is a side pocket here for the passenger so space is extremely limited, they didn't think about usability, they thought about moral style and design and if you're okay with that, you'll love this.

I spent a lot of time researching here because it is one of those few vehicles that I would actually consider owning. I would find a way to have this car. It's so good in so many ways, but there are some things that make me question it. It's just little things that are very annoying, like when I turn off the traction stability control. This group of indicators. you can't dismiss it, it keeps alerting you, there's an alert menu that tells you that and then there's a constant popup, you dismiss it and it comes back, there's just some little electronic noises here that you can tell it's some kind of legal What I understand It's that you accept it, you accept it twice, but to keep the reverse chime appearing when you're in reverse, it beeps and beeps, why does it have to be to let you know that it's in reverse?

I can tell you why it's because you have a dizzy gear shift, you don't know what gear you're in, you have to look, so it sounds to say there are little things like that that really drag this car down in terms of seat design, this is always a pro or a The downside is when you get to these type of sportier seats you will hurt people who are bigger and if you are a smaller person like me I love them I think they are amazing there aren't many adjustments to the seats, which is fine for me, but it's probably going to appeal to someone who just isn't comfortable, there's not a lot of up and down movement, there's not a lot of headroom, it just depends on the type of body and you have to check it next time.

The thing to talk about is the gauge cluster and it's taken directly from the F Sport model, so if you get an RC F sport or an F sport, it's the same electromechanical gauge cluster that moves the bezel to the right so you can access additional menus in this car. I think it's a bit unnecessary. The menus don't really tell you much and overall it looks good, but I don't know if it's up to you what they do next, which is a professional. They put a bezel around the center screen so it doesn't look like a giant screen, it gives it that three dimensional value that we're losing by putting screens on everything, it's really nice and I wish more manufacturers would do those last few things to Talk about the back seat, no you go back there.

I wouldn't do it, it's totally unusable and pointless. The only person you put in the back is someone who hates infotainment. This is Lexus' upgraded infotainment setup and is very similar to all other Lexus's with the widescreenIt's a little faster, they made some adjustments to the menu structure. Here you use the touchpad or mousepad to scroll. It has a medium coarse response and pinch to zoom now, when you go through the menus, it gives you sort of a submenu that shows you when the mouse, you know, is highlighted, it says like in the settings, the screen appears right above it so that You can go and turn off the screen, it's not like a one touch screen off and for the most part it works. better than the other Lexus setups, but it's very cumbersome to get around, like I say, when I have to get in here and turn the seat heaters on and off, I just don't want to have to deal with that, it's just too clunky it's too hard to do on the gears and it's not intuitive enough to really say oh, I could deal with this, it's one of the worst parts of Lexus cars, but now the only other thing they have is this analog clock that seems totally out of place here and there.

You know, for the most part, everything works, but my biggest problem is the technology and that's it, on the inside. Let's go to the workshop and talk to turbo Suki about the underbody of the LC Scott. This is the LC 500, literally fresh off the boats. from Japan I think I've personally been waiting for this car ever since. It's like everyone is happy with him. It's true and that's where I first think it still looks like it came from the Motor Show where you can't touch it. look inside because it's a fake car but you know it's real yes that's true that's what makes it so attractive but let's talk about the nuts and bolts as I rambled on about the exterior for about 10 hours this is the new GA - L or Toyota. gal Erica toggle and LLC ladies choice ladies car is what I'll see Santa that's what I think it means what ladies choice or ladies car is not a ladies car I suppose a lady could have it too, but this is pretty manly in In some ways, okay, the GA - L is Toyota's new global luxury architecture.

Now it's designed to be front engine and rear wheel drive without being a Frankenstein, like the RC F or the RC, it was a Frankenstein between three cars, so they wanted a dedicated architecture that they can build for a multitude of different cars now with this is the first iteration, an early example and this car was built in the same plant as the LFA, so some of the same people were working on that car. We are working on this, it is a very specialized facility and some of the ones they had when they were in Formula 1 and mastered some of that, the carbon fiber works and all of that is still in that plant, so there is attention to detail and noticeable. which is now more specialized, borrows from the RC F and G s FS engine, is slightly different but pretty much the same, so the front half of the car looks identical except no oil coolers or transmission coolers on the LC, so the front is blocked the second thing you don't have here you don't have the brake ducts that go from the front bumper to the sides not surprising yeah no I don't know I don't think I need it and It's not that guy car but what it does have is it has a forged aluminum lower control arm and forged upper arms which is a split design and this lower two arm design and upper two arm design for a multi link like this is designed to improve steering feel and when you have a single arm on a ball joint on top and you have a single arm on the bottom with only one ball joint, the top ball drink does not necessarily follow the bottom ball joint, so when you have two up two ball joints up two up on the bottom your top follows the bottom so you have a more direct steering feel less camber changes less strangeness in the suspension angle change overall and it gives you a feeling of much more direct solidity in the front, well it looks like it took the lower ball joints that gained at least the lower ball joint from a damn f-350 super duty or something like God that thing is huge, it is, it's usually big, The entire knuckle assembly, which is huge, is all aluminum, practically the same.

The entire subframe and bottom of this car are aluminum and it is redesigned to save weight. You have a six-piston monobloc caliper and I, when I drove it for a few years, you'll see you know, look at this, yeah, no. They have brake ducts, you know it doesn't look that sophisticated, but the way the front suspension is set up, the way they've built the rigidity and the way they've designed these shock tower strut towers, that gives You get this incredible feeling of stopping power without having to work hard with a brake setup. They have two piece rotors that I don't think you can separate.

It's a two-piece design, but you buy them in one piece. Lexus and they have directional veins inside the cooling veins but there are no slots, they are not cross drilled so you know there are but hopefully it should be cheaper to replace the next part and probably the last part with the front suspension It has variable adjustable shock absorbers. by KYB it's all electronically controlled and they're completely adaptive so the car decides based on your driving or your driving modes how to change the speed on the fly and it's in its multi mode, it's not like three white modes.

I thought it was this car. They are adjustable in 650 directions or something like that, yeah, and I think the math when you do the math probably took one, two, three, and four and figured out how many different times, but yeah, it has a lot of adjustability by not using it as a magnetic damper. . We'll talk. I'll talk more about the ride quality when I drive this. The last part about the front suspension is that, according to Lexus, they spent six months designing those upper arms and the way they mount to the upper shock tower. quite interesting it is very interesting and the reason they mounted it on the sides of the strut tower was that they were trying to lower the hood line as much as possible in order to lower the hood line, they had to drop the upper arms and traditionally you see the upper arms already I'm kind of the upper middle and you can see they're really split so it took a lot of engineering to get them down.

I like the little brackets where they attach because you usually have to loosen the strut and then when the time comes those screws don't come loose and it becomes a mess, so at least this three in bold is done, yeah, four, but next up is the new Scott 10-speed automatic and the 10-speed automatic is smaller and lighter than the eight-speed in the RC F and GS F. Now the behavior of this one as they designed it is that it has four sets of planetary gears. They've beefed up the torque converter so it can go into lockup mode much more aggressively. in gears one through four and this increases the speed from eight to ten and the gears are closer together at all times, so one, two, three, four and five are close together, so the point is to give it a more exhilarating feeling of shifting from gear to square it's like bam bam bam bam the longest gear is the first gear that extends the most but from the second third fourth you're like shit this is like instant fun Road yeah it is and that it's exactly what they were trying to do here, the only part is you start putting these higher gears and I think you said it, it's like you're already doing a hundred miles an hour and fourth gear like you still have six more gears, right? why bother you?

Yeah, it's like a bicycle, you know, they're ten-speed bicycles. I don't know what those last gears are for, other than to save fuel, and I suppose technically, at any given speed, you can be in the lowest possible gear to save fuel, so the transmission does shift. mode of operation based on your driving modes in the rear on the rump what do you think is quite difficult? Yes, it is difficult and it is difficult because, what do we have here? Blow molded arrows. I'm more intrigued by the blow molded arrows. Yes. These are not just a piece of plastic, it's like a hole inside and follows the asphalt arrow panels to continue the air flow, but Lexus is doing weird things here to try to reduce road noise and noise. vibration of the tires and wheels to the body. of the car, so this is probably one of those things they're doing if you go with the 20-inch wheel option on this car, which it doesn't have, it has 21-inch forged wheels with run-flats that kind of negate all the things on the that are working, we have 20 inch wheels, the outside edge is hollow and it is hollow to help reduce and Trant stops the transmission of a lot of the worms, absorbs them now that you have lowered the upper and lower control arms. all aluminum your knuckles aluminum there are attempts to save weight here and what do we have here Scott limited slip torque yeah what's the gear ratio 2.9 jeez that's high we got 10 speed you should be able to use it yeah they sure want it To be able to use the 10 speeds, I guess you'd have to say yes, the next thing we'll notice is that it has an Asian steering module on the rear wheels and combined with the Torsen, it's supposed to give you an extremely controlled ride. and I just drive in general and you know I talked about this with Lexus, the RC F uses a torque vectoring differential and it doesn't have rear wheel steering, but the RC F sport uses rear wheel steering and there is no TVD, there is a little strange lack of consistent vision what Toyota is doing here but its based on an engineering decision what the car needs and this doesn't need a TVD in my experience well the lf-lc f will have it yeah probably This is my opinion, they probably put the rear wheel. steering to give you a false sense of the handling, sure, whereas what the heck is the RC F you're going to drive, they would assume you're going to drive it harder and they don't need to give it that false sense of yes. the grip because it's always transferring power with the right will and it's like that, yeah, it's probably a way to keep the cost down.

You know, you don't want to say that they built this at an affordable price, but you know that's going to add more cost to it and I like it. Mechanical I like it when things are simpler, so having a normal Torsen that is not electronically controlled you know is something you can buy long term and not have to worry about something like this to replace it now, before we look under the Hood, it's time. to talk about weight reduction in structural rigidity because that was a big focus in building this architecture, now Alexis has done a lot, but first of all, let's put it on the wheel scales and take a look at what the True weight and balance of the corners.

It's weighed forty four hundred and ten pounds, to put it in perspective it's almost three hundred pounds heavier than the RC F which isn't much, this car looks a lot bigger, it looks a lot bigger even though the interior dimensions don't No, doesn't reflect that, but as for the exterior, yes, this is what they've done: About three times the amount of structural adhesives are used throughout the entire body structure as on this car, well, I thought I heard it's the most structurally solid. car, they once made, yes, Elif, stronger than the olive tree. I thought I thought I read it somewhere.

Okay, I think you're right and that's because they are starting to master the use of laser screw welding, a different type of There is a technique for joining steel to aluminum. There are a lot of different things they are doing to increase the rigidity of this car, reduce vibration or the other thing they are doing is using more composite materials, like making the trunk lid carbon reinforced plastic. The door panels are carbon-reinforced plastic, the roof, which is optional, is carbon fiber, so you have those elements along with the use of aluminum door skins with an aluminum hood.

I mean, they've really tried to use as many alloys and compounds as possible. for this car, but enough of that, let's take a look under the hood Scott, you're looking at both, you're GSC five liter v8 with direct and port injection, this makes about 471 horsepower and 390 pounds of torque and someone will ask: is it fast. I have already been asked what is fast and my direct answer is no, it is not fast, it is not fast as you would expect. The Durango SRT just came out of the Camaro zl1. Those cars felt fast because they have this immense amount. of torque that throws you back in your seat, this doesn't give you the same impression but on paper it's pretty quick, around four and a half seconds from zero to 60 and for street driving I would take this and just say I would choose this instead of a high torque, high horsepower engine that is totally unusable for street driving.

It sounds amazing, it feels amazing and it clears so smoothly like this beautiful mechanical sound and a lot of that is engine tuning, exhaust tuning and now. It has a dual intake system with two two-effective air boxes, now it seemsHard to make it sturdy and gt86 and BRZ owners will smear their underwear with stool when they discover it has a sound tube or sound generator. It is a mechanical tube that runs from the intake to the inside of the car to generate differential frequencies at different engine rpm, so Lexus

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decided to eliminate the sound design or fake engine noise through the speakers and turn it into a mechanical tube. induction tone and the amount of work they did to tune the resonator and these tubes were made by Yamaha, no they didn't have Yamaha make it, but they learned from it, it's very similar to the LFA, so this tube runs all the way down. through the middle part here into the firewall and they're trying to create a stereo soundtrack with just air and resonance and these are all tuned tubes like they said, it's like an instrument placed in the middle of the p

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I know it's crazy, but it sounds great, it literally does and you'll hear a lot of it when we drive. The second thing we should mention under the hood are these alloy shock towers, they're one piece of aluminum, they're incredibly stiff and they connect. I'm thinking five different subs or braces that connect the braces from here to the rear of the firewall on both sides to tie it all together, so again this is part of the rigidity and it's unique to this car in that you don't see it. any other Lexus product and it is huge, but part of this rigidity in these towers is lowering the line of the hood and that is why the upper arms are lower and that is part of all this is designing it so that the suspension works correctly, but the last thing he has, you know what they are, I also know I was going to ask you what the Hell, that's pedestrian accident impact, oh my god, mitigation, no, this car, throw it in the trash, that's just why they had to Doing it because the hood was so low, that was the only way they could lower the hood line enough to pass the regulations.

These modules, did you know that once there is an impact, they can detect the impact of a pedestrian? They will literally lift the hood to prevent the panel from having enough clearance between the engine and therefore it is a cushion, yes, it basically undocks. pops the hood and lifts it up so it's also linked to the airbag sensor, so you know, hey, if there's an impact with a pedestrian, it won't set off the airbags when a pop star just lost all the credit So, no, well, it's sad that they have to worry about pedestrians. safety I agree that everything is compromising in modern cars, you know as much as they have tried, you know, I learned that two years ago look both ways before crossing the street and, if you are on the street, there is a high possibility of that a car is coming, why would anyone teach you that you should get a computer to do all those things for you?

They just hit you and then you realize, oh, I shouldn't do that, no, we have to build everything we have to build technology to avoid human stupidity Scott, you can't be responsible for setting off in the magnificent LC 500, now we can talk all day about the specs, the looks and many times none of that matters, this is what matters, what the car is like to drive. unless you're a hard core Parker of course, now there are high levels of expectations about how this car drives, let's get down to the nitty-gritty, fuel economy first and I know most people are going to care about this, but this vehicle has a division. personality and when you drive in Eco mode and leave it in automatic, I had a hundred mile round trip on the highway at over 30 miles per gallon, it's really effective and that's because this vehicle can advance the overlay cam of valves in phase.

It has import direct injection and then the 10-speed automatic that it makes allows you all the mechanical attributes to get that kind of fuel economy, but here's the thing when I'm in manual mode and I'm in Sport+ and you start putting the pedal on. At full throttle, what you're looking at is 13 to 14 miles per gallon at best, next up is gear control. Look, this is like that luxury touring car, it better drive well and when you get over it, broken and choppy. pavement I have to tell you, this is where these vehicles let me down, that is, when you hear how much time they spent helping the chassis, all the time they spent designing the suspension, the double ball joint installed on the upper and lower arm. the hub or the bottom knuckle, it's just a choppy ride over broken pavement and I think 90% of that is because they have 21 inch wheels on this thing and when you have 21 inch wheels, when you get to these combinations of tires with larger wheels, you don't have a sidewall so there isn't much give and I think instead of softening the suspension they just chose to leave it as is and then use this as an option.

I would hardly buy these wheels and tires. for this car, because of this now the shock absorbers are variable, they can constantly adjust the valves depending on your driving modes, how you drive it, the ECU is constantly watching all your ratios, g force on all driver inputs to set the car to where it needs to be to damp the car properly and as much as it's trying to be a grand tourer, it's more of a grand tourer sports car and I say that because the performance of the engine and transmission when you're in Sport mode Also, the throttle control Traction stability in manual off mode is absolutely amazing and the steering input, despite having a variable gear ratio, is constantly adjusted.

This is more about feeling connected to the driver and that's one of the things I really like about the overall driving experience now. I don't think it's sports car level, but they're not trying to do that here, they're trying to give you the luxury and the feeling that it's something unique and at the same time allows you to have a little bit of fun and that's what we're going to go for. The talk now is about performance, so this is what people are going to talk about: Well, why not just get a Jia Jia for an RC F?

Okay, there are a couple of reasons why this is totally different the first is the immediacy and the response of the chassis when you hit the brake there is no role there is no transition it just stops there is a ridge of feeling of stiffness in the car that you always feel You feel like it's always going to respond, that's all you're doing and I think one of the best parts about this car is that it responds to all your actions. Throttle response is crisp, no lag, no lag. The steering feels like it's always available. The brakes as soon as you get on them the car responds and stops and this is on a Grand Touring machine of course we're talking about street driving now right?

This is not designed to be a track car and you could take it there, but I can't. I don't think it's very fun, but dynamically it's far superior to the GS F and RC F in every way. The other thing to talk about is the stability control system, as in most Lexuses, it's not completely overrideable, there's just this. element where it comes back on at certain times and it's usually lateral g force, if you put the car on its side, go back if you're in first gear in manual mode, it'll automatically upshift so I'm like In this corner and I'm going to lock it in, you can seeing that it automatically shifted into second gear to prevent the car from breaking down completely and I guess my point with this is that yes, it kind of ruins the experience.

I can't put this car completely on its side, it always keeps you a little tied down, but the thing is that for most drivers on the street, you can put it on its side enough to put a smile on your face and it really is totally controllable, believe. I designed this for someone who knows they're not going to drive like a complete idiot all the time and wants that safety net. This is still a very confidence inspiring car for someone who doesn't have a lot of seat time and you don't really know how to drive a rear wheel drive car very well, you just don't get the feeling that it's out of control, some of that is down to the rear wheel steering, you know the rear wheel steering module definitely helps get the the car to turn and the other part is the Torsen limited slip.

Again, it's not totally out of control. I don't think this car needs a torque vectoring differential. I don't think it will be necessary at all until maybe they make an F version of This car is an extreme track version but as it is it is extremely controllable and fun to drive now the biggest difference between the biggest pro of the LC 500 is this 10 speed automatic and we talk about this a lot with the RC F and the GS F has this 8 speed and people complain, well it's not responsive enough, it doesn't downshift like a dual clutch, the thing is they've programmed it to make it kind of a smooth dual purpose transmission when you're just driving and then when you're driving at full speed, this transmission works best when you have the traction stability control off and you're in full manual mode, the response of the transmission is so Good thing you can see why so many companies are starting to get rid of double clutches, my favorite thing.

It's the sound, this is what sells me about the car now, you might be wondering, there has to be some kind of negative aspects. I think some people won't be as impressed with the excellent quality if you're looking for pure luxury. The car is a pure cruiser that is smooth on all surfaces. I don't think you'll like this car, especially with the 21 inch wheels. You know, steering is a talking point in all modern cars. I think it's super direct without being totally. synthetic but it doesn't have much feel, it's a little insulated, you know? And again, this car isn't about performance, it's about giving you the feeling that it's a sports car while still being a luxury car, which is nice, that's what most people want anyway, Let's take a look at the final thoughts and I'll give you a rundown of all our final thoughts about the Lexus LC 500.

It's been about two weeks since I drove the latter. I just finished editing. My goal remained neutral. objective and not emotional at all times, so here goes, this is one of the best modern cars I have ever driven and the main reason is simple, when you get in and out of so many new cars, what you start to see is imitating the designers . the product planners are stealing from this guy, copying that, hopefully, to sell as many cars as possible, that's not what the LC 500 is about, you can tell they just wanted to build a car they wanted to build, they weren't trying to be. an Audi, a Mercedes, a BMW or anyone else and that's why it feels special to drive it and be in it and look at it now.

It may not be for everyone at $100,000. It becomes a kind of aspirational vehicle. It's not totally outside the realm of possibility. but it's just hitting the used market, people are going to clamor for this car and I think it will be totally reliable. The next thing Lexus did was try to focus on mechanical simplicity, they didn't overcomplicate the car they wanted. Focus on driving dynamics, so this architecture, if there is any sign that they are going to reuse this platform in future sports cars like the Supra, people will be very happy with this steering motor performance, transmission performance It is at a high level and talking about the engine. that's one of the best parts, this 5 liter naturally aspirated engine is amazing in this car, partly because of the induction tone, no fake engine noise, you finally have a real exhaust in the Alexis, it's that 360 experience ​​​​degrees you get from driving this thing and we all know it will go away. 4 turbocharged v8 Saur v6 is on, you know, online strength, that's what everyone is doing, so it's very refreshing to drive this now, the negatives are still negatives, you know, the technology that's there, the infotainment is still I just hate it, the Digi lever for the shifter. the constant alerts in - the beeps all the time you have to do, you jump in the - I don't know, I feel like they could even peel, they're simplifying this in a car like that, but other than that, I mean you can live with little things like that because it is very fun and pleasant to ride.

Lastly, you don't have to be a professional race car driver to drive it. The amount of horsepower and torque this car has can still be used on the street. Yes, it is exciting. 500 horsepower, but the way it delivers power isn't totally wasted. I was running summer tires in a frigid temperature and could still drive this car very hard, as you saw in the video. I think a lot of people are going to appreciate that element of the LC. 500, so I hope you appreciated that video, thank you for all your time and I hope to give you more in-depth coverage on different cars and products around the world.