Lexus LC News
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Wow! Talk about refined aggression! Simply Beautiful. I love everything about this concept car. I'm sure by the time i attain my PT License, these bad boys should be ready to roll out the showroom floor. I'll take one!!!! But only if they offer it with a standard Manual Transmission. The design is reminiscent of the Furai by Mazda. I love Lexus's elegant enhancements to that design philosophy.
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From: NC
Digital Divide
Amid the dozens of vehicles debuted at the North American International Auto Show Detroit on Monday, many of the concept trial balloon cars boasted digital consoles worthy of this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
1 prime example is Toyota Motor Corp.’s latest luxury design study, the Lexus LF-LC sports coupe. The car boasts curvy sheet metal that sheaths a rear-wheel drive, advanced hybrid powertrain under its dramatically sloped hood. Styling highlights include a lily-stem motif interior cockpit and tail lamps “inspired by the look of a jet afterburner at take-off,” according to the company’s press release.
But perhaps the most notable innovation is a pop-up touch-screen keyboard wedged between the front seats to adjust unnamed functions, presumably including audio and climate controls. Mark Templin, general manager of Lexus in the U.S., described the half-bolted down digital tablet as “kind of like having a tilt-up iPad” built into the center console.
That device is flanked by smaller, smartphone-sized flat touch panels on the inside of each door used to control the side mirrors, door and window operation and seat adjustments. The similarity of these arm rest panels to Apple Inc.’s iPhone screen is unmistakable–and the corporate hat tip is not something Toyota shied away from acknowledging.
“We’re moving more into the digital age and away from the mechanical, so it makes sense for us to try touch interfaces that look like a tablet or iPhone,” Kevin Hunter, president of Toyota’s Newport Beach, Calif.-based design center, said in an interview. “People are expecting this technology to be brought into cars.”
Not to be outdone by these accoutrements, the candy apple red show car also boasts twin 12.3-inch LCD panels inside showcasing core instrumentation such as the speedometer and navigational controls.
With all that high-tech, it wouldn’t be surprising to see such a car on display at CES or another electronics expo. And it begs the question: Will cars of the future be made by Toyota and Hyundai, or the likes of Apple and Samsung?
While Toyota officials stress the LF-LC is merely a conceptual exercise, they hint there’s ample room in the automaker’s line-up for a similarly styled $150,000 “poor man’s LFA,” a reference to the limited production Lexus super sports car that sells for $375,000. iPad not included.
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If you look at the headlight and bumper design, you can see indentions for a full headlight and not the concept looking ones here. Of course the front bumper will gain a bar and the rear will be cleaned up. Overall this could be a production car.
Its hard to believe Lexus has the LFA and now is going to offer this vehicle. Lexus has heard our cries for coupes. They just need to continue to move this halo down to a GS/IS coupe etc.
Very exciting!
Its hard to believe Lexus has the LFA and now is going to offer this vehicle. Lexus has heard our cries for coupes. They just need to continue to move this halo down to a GS/IS coupe etc.
Very exciting!
How is your auto NSX treating you? I love the OG NSX, but now that the car suit my purposes, I don't want to drive a stick anymore. I considered an auto NSX but the response of that 4-speeds auto box was not acceptable to me compare to the 6-speeds box in my SC430. I just like to know how you like your tranny living with it?
While Toyota officials stress the LF-LC is merely a conceptual exercise, they hint there’s ample room in the automaker’s line-up for a similarly styled $150,000 “poor man’s LFA,” a reference to the limited production Lexus super sports car that sells for $375,000. iPad not included.
If it is $150k, that means it would be a V8 with possibly a 8k rpm redline!
if it's 150k and at the same time 80% of what the lfa is offering now (say the concept goes into production in a year), that's not entirely impossible and it's going to be fantastic
If you look at the headlight and bumper design, you can see indentions for a full headlight and not the concept looking ones here. Of course the front bumper will gain a bar and the rear will be cleaned up. Overall this could be a production car.
Its hard to believe Lexus has the LFA and now is going to offer this vehicle. Lexus has heard our cries for coupes. They just need to continue to move this halo down to a GS/IS coupe etc.
Very exciting!
Its hard to believe Lexus has the LFA and now is going to offer this vehicle. Lexus has heard our cries for coupes. They just need to continue to move this halo down to a GS/IS coupe etc.
Very exciting!
yeah, happy that lexus is finally listening to us b$tch and whine
How is your auto NSX treating you? I love the OG NSX, but now that the car suit my purposes, I don't want to drive a stick anymore. I considered an auto NSX but the response of that 4-speeds auto box was not acceptable to me compare to the 6-speeds box in my SC430. I just like to know how you like your tranny living with it?
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From: ontario
I believe with the LFA and FT86 experience, Lexus will knock this one out of the park in a reasonal time frame and costs. Althought, the hybrid setup might complicate things in terms of achieving low center of gravity and lightness.
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Joined: Aug 2005
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From: IL
I am so happy that we have a path forward to ditch iDrive as shown in this car
Do folks see this car as the new range topper once the LFA goes out of production
Do folks think this is the SC replacement and that our access to convertibles with an L badge will be limited to the IS?
Do folks see this car as the new range topper once the LFA goes out of production
Do folks think this is the SC replacement and that our access to convertibles with an L badge will be limited to the IS?
Lead Lap
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From: ontario
you got another one already? darn you are fast!!!!!! congrats!!!
to me it's kind of like compromise. they want to get a higher power car but better epa ratings and still fun to drive, so it's somewhere in between that they have to settle. to me i definitely have no problem giving up some to get a poor man's lfa
to me it's kind of like compromise. they want to get a higher power car but better epa ratings and still fun to drive, so it's somewhere in between that they have to settle. to me i definitely have no problem giving up some to get a poor man's lfa
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From: CA