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Lexus LC500 — excitement in overdrive
Lexus has hit the wow button with the LC500, but can it beat its rival, asks Mark Smyth
We have often said that Lexus has promised not to make boring cars. Whether it is succeeding is a matter for debate, but what it has struggled to do is produce really exciting cars. We are not talking here about sedans or SUVs, but a design that gets the heart racing and when you look at it you go "wow". Lexus got the formula right with the LF-A supercar, a sought-after model that had the performance credentials to match. We haven’t driven one, but a British bloke who gets upset when you serve the wrong food and likes to go grand touring is apparently a huge fan. The RC was a good attempt but lacked a wow factor, as well as any semblance of performance (except for the RC-F which never came to SA) but then along came this, the LC. Wow. In Twitter style I could park that exclamation there and leave you to look at the pictures, but as a writer I feel obliged to write on. At the model’s international launch in 2016, LC chief engineer Koji Sato told us the aim was to "create a car that c...
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