Lexus Ignores The Bean Counters With The $100,000 LC 500

It does not make much sense that Lexus spent all the money and time that it did on this car.  Not in this day and age, when the market for big, expensive “personal luxury coupes” is pretty much nil. Before Toyota's fancy-pants brand threw its hat into the ring, the category was pretty much relegated to Mercedes-Benz's S-Class Coupe (nee CL-Class) and BMW's 6 Series; nearly every other brand that once trafficked in large coupes at sub-supercar prices had since ditched it for greener—i.e. more profitable—pastures, like $100,000 pickup trucks and leather-lined off-roaders. Such a car, it seems, serves one main purpose in this day and age: to fire up salivary glands and psych the buying public up about the brand, drawing them into showrooms where they'll drop money on a less-expensive, more-profitable vehicle.

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222max - 7/19/2018 10:28:48 AM

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I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

PUGPROUD - 7/19/2018 11:18:01 AM

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Make mine a convertible please.

MDarringer - 7/19/2018 11:21:15 AM

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It truly matches Mercedes-level expectations and the build quality is magnificent. This is Lexus' E-Type moment.

vdiv - 7/19/2018 11:57:27 AM

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The personal luxury coupé... It's baaaack!

TomM - 7/19/2018 12:05:02 PM

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At that price - it will be discounted heavily to sell
Wait a few months - and maybe they will have a 2 for one!

MDarringer - 7/19/2018 12:12:51 PM

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It is heavily discounted, but so are BMWs and Mercedes at this price point.

Truthy - 7/19/2018 12:45:56 PM

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I want one. It is as well executed a design as I have seen in recent years. There is not a bad angle. The interior is original and special too. And it is a Lexus, so the build quality is beyond reproach.

MDarringer - 7/19/2018 1:31:21 PM

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They are tremendously wonderful to drive as well. They are simultaneously silky and as rowdy as a muscle car when you want to be Larry.

countguy - 7/19/2018 1:24:15 PM

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Way overpriced

MDarringer - 7/19/2018 1:30:27 PM

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Overpriced? Yes. Way overpriced? Nope.

knowitall1985 - 7/19/2018 2:28:17 PM

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Best looking car they have ever made!!!

MDarringer - 7/19/2018 5:30:46 PM

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Have you driven one? I'll say that Lexus has finally cracked the Mercedes code. With BMW in a tailspin toward Camryization, the new 8 Series will have to be exceedingly tremendous. It won't be, of course.

The Lexus LC is stunningly beautiful in person. The AMGGT for similar-ish money isn't beautiful but it is very masculine and butch. THOSE are you choices in the segment a gorgeous work of art or a rather lovely bruiser.

I'd rather have a Corvette, but that wouldn't get cross shopped.