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Looking at the numbers it appears that they are limited to the number of LC units that are assigned to each country/market due to production restraints, they can only build so many in X amount of time
Pretty low number this month. Could this be due to people holding out for the 2026 model announcement?
could be fallout from tariff announcement? Either Lexus not producing and shipping as many as normal here, or buyers not getting involved in the buying process due to pricing fears, or a combination of the two perhaps?
Interesting that June is historically in the bottom tier of sales month each year and the lowest total sales
My dealer usually only gets 1 LC at a time and that's a convertible (I've never seen a coupe there, my little bubble though). At least in my perspective, the Tariffs seemed to have motivated people to purchase if on the sidelines. New and used vehicles seem to be lacking on the Lexus lot especially with the higher cost vehicles (GX, LX, LC etc.). Used to be one could go to the dealership and see the vehicles in different interior/exterior colors etc., but good luck with that now (again, my little bubble). We were looking at getting both a GX (overtrail) and LX (600 because of dogs) over the course of this and next year. No discounts on the GX, but did score something on the LX. Drawback with the LX; pick one of 5 in shipping since nothing is on the lot, or wait and get hit with possible tariffs. So still waiting for the LX delivery which should be this month.
Sales have held up pretty well, for an older model - better than most in its segment, as far as I'm aware. The spike in 2021 is down to the introduction of the convertible, of course.
Something seems very weird about their decision to do this.
I almost feel like it's setting them up to at some point say "welp that's it. There are 100 inspirations unspoken for, and they'll be the final run" with an extra badge or something unique to those last units.
That would give the last few inspirations some extra meaning while also limiting the actual 2026 inspiration model to more similar numbers from years past.
Honestly I cannot see this model continuing into 2027 manufacturing.
“Honestly I cannot see this model continuing into 2027 manufacturing.”
Yes, I have nothing to based that on other than a strong gut feeling. But it seems Lexus is exiting the curvy body normal aspirated engine car to an angular body aesthetic with twin turbos and electric motor augmentation era.
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It took seven business days for this number to come out, the longest it's taken since I've been posting them. Maybe they had to double-check the September number to make sure it was really that low
