Lexus LF-CC Paris Motor Show
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This looks amazing. I'm really digging the look.
Two Coupes Planned for Lexus Lineup
In an interview with Australian newspaper The Age, Lexus International executive vice-president Kazuo Ohara talks about the two coupes expected to join the Lexus lineup:
The first, a model based off the all-new IS presaged by the LF-CC concept and considered a likely replacement for the current IS CC hardtop convertible, is expected to make it to production within two or three years.
Kazuo Ohara, executive vice president of Lexus International, says sports cars – including a rival to the upcoming BMW 4-Series and the current Audi A5 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class coupe – is a space he would like to see the brand have more presence.
“I’m not really in a position to be disclosing anything specific for the future products, but for example – a coupe-type, such as [the LF-CC], something like that is something we would like to look at,” Ohara says.
A coupe based on the LF-CC has been all-but-guaranteed, but official discussion of any kind is always worth highlighting.
The first, a model based off the all-new IS presaged by the LF-CC concept and considered a likely replacement for the current IS CC hardtop convertible, is expected to make it to production within two or three years.
Kazuo Ohara, executive vice president of Lexus International, says sports cars – including a rival to the upcoming BMW 4-Series and the current Audi A5 and Mercedes-Benz C-Class coupe – is a space he would like to see the brand have more presence.
“I’m not really in a position to be disclosing anything specific for the future products, but for example – a coupe-type, such as [the LF-CC], something like that is something we would like to look at,” Ohara says.
A coupe based on the LF-CC has been all-but-guaranteed, but official discussion of any kind is always worth highlighting.
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Lexus RC Coupe Prototype Spotted!
By way of Mag-X, here’s the very first spyshot of the Lexus production coupe based on the LF-CC concept.
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I'm sure that Lexus spokespeople were trying to trick people into expecting this much later, when they are probably more far along and the IS C-F was an obvious mule. The reference to January meant that they were building this/these prototype(s), not starting development.