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In several places it is mentioned that during the full production period till now a total of a little over 15.000 LC500 were produced, so I guess the 2026 last production number must be added to get the final total production, I guess may add up to 16.000 total production of LC500/ LC500h and LC500 convertible?
I am surprised that I cannot find how many of these are convertibles, anyone know where to find this?
Last edited by NoriRaine; Feb 27, 2026 at 08:00 AM.
In several places it is mentioned that during the full production period till now a total of a little over 15.000 LC500 were produced, so I guess the 2026 last production number must be added to get the final total production, I guess may add up to 16.000 total production of LC500/ LC500h and LC500 convertible?
I am surprised that I cannot find how many of these are convertibles, anyone know where to find this?
That is somewhat surprising for such a low production specialty model which was hand assembled on it's own seperate production line.
I have owned 2 NSX and in that scene, all production numbers of the total 15Y production era (1990-2005) of the original NA1 and NA2 models are known by year, version, colour etc..
Mind you, the NSX was handbuilt in it's own specially built factory
Also: in some places the LC500 15.000 number is mentioned as US sales, but other places state 15.000 total production sold worldwide..
EDIT: Wikipedia seems to know more, but even there the number of convertibles is not mentioned..
Last edited by NoriRaine; Feb 27, 2026 at 10:20 AM.
Thanks for this.
Somewhat different from Wikipedia, surprising that nobody seems to know..
Looks like total production is somewhere between 17.000-18.000, so more than the most often mentioned about 15.000
Last edited by NoriRaine; Feb 27, 2026 at 10:43 AM.
Somewhat different from Wikipedia, surprising that nobody seems to know..
Looks like total production is somewhere between 17.000-18.000, so more than the mostoften mentioned about 15.000
Still relatively rare; I hardly ever see one on the road. Congrats on your new Nori Conv, by the way.. There's a Nori Coupe in my town; lovely color.
I am surprised that I cannot find how many of these are convertibles, anyone know where to find this?
Lexus publishes the sales figures by model each year, but they don't differentiate between coupes and convertibles, or give us color breakdown etc.
A couple of years ago somebody was posting allocation data for Toyota and Lexus models to a Google Sheets doc, but that data was shut down after about 6 months. At any one time the ratio of convertibles to coupes in the pipeline was about 7 to 1. So if that number applies to the entire year range for convertibles -- 2021 to 2026 -- then that breaks down to:
Lexus publishes the sales figures by model each year, but they don't differentiate between coupes and convertibles, or give us color breakdown etc.
A couple of years ago somebody was posting allocation data for Toyota and Lexus models to a Google Sheets doc, but that data was shut down after about 6 months. At any one time the ratio of convertibles to coupes in the pipeline was about 7 to 1. So if that number applies to the entire year range for convertibles -- 2021 to 2026 -- then that breaks down to:
But yes, as someone else said, this ^^^ is just a guess. Toyota doesn't release this data publicly, even though they surely know the exact numbers.
So the conclusion from these numbers is that from the moment when the convertible became available, the coupe sales fully dropped?
Over full production era they turn out to be about 50/50
Last edited by NoriRaine; Feb 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM.
I have viewed this info several times in the past and although I love the details, it's important to note that the figures shown only reflect actual total unit sales during the month/year not the model years sold during that timeframe. For example, the 2023 LC model year (which I own) was changed over to 2024's mid-year 2023 once the new dash was available. So, sales shown in 2023 are actually a combo of 2023 and 2024 model years. Also, in subsequent years, 'left over,' previous model year inventory (i,e, '24's sold in 2025, '25's sold in 2026, etc.) are not differentiated in this data. FYI- I've owned three Corvettes and a '92 NSX and with all of these, I knew exactly how many were sold by color combo (both exterior and interior) including which option combos were included. I only wish we could get this level of detail for our LC's.
Still relatively rare; I hardly ever see one on the road. Congrats on your new Nori Conv, by the way.. There's a Nori Coupe in my town; lovely color.
Not sure whether that’s my Nori Green coupe you’ve seen rolling around New Jersey, perhaps there’s another?
The figure of “over 15,000” referred to N.American (US & Canada) sales. I believe the next largest market is Japan, at least based on the numbers of inspiration-equivalent models they made for the Japanese market (fewer than the US but significantly more than for Europe). The car was badly hobbled in Europe by taxes and regulations, especially the V8. As I understand it, all of the pre-2021 cars were coupes, thereafter most (2/3?) of the cars sold in N.America were convertibles.
So the conclusion from these numbers is that from the moment when the convertible became available, the coupe sales fully dropped?
Over full production era they turn out to be about 50/50
Except for the bespoke LC coupes in 2022 and convertibles in 2024, Toyota / Lexus decide how many of each vehicle to build, what colors to make them etc. It's a very managed process on their part, where customer demand is just a small part.
A big part of how Toyota controls the costs of vehicles is by optimizing their supply chain / orders. So if they decide to sell 1500 LC500s next year, that's how they size their parts orders with the suppliers. And then those vehicles are sent to the dealerships using an "allocation" system, where Toyota looks at past sales and tries to most efficiently send cars to where they will sell the fastest / easiest.
I expect that what they saw for 2021 was that the convertibles sold quickly and the coupes didn't, so that influenced their ratio for later years. So no idea how long that 7-to-1 ratio has been going on, when I saw it was late 2023 to early 2024.
Except for the bespoke LC coupes in 2022 and convertibles in 2024, Toyota / Lexus decide how many of each vehicle to build, what colors to make them etc. It's a very managed process on their part, where customer demand is just a small part.
A big part of how Toyota controls the costs of vehicles is by optimizing their supply chain / orders. So if they decide to sell 1500 LC500s next year, that's how they size their parts orders with the suppliers. And then those vehicles are sent to the dealerships using an "allocation" system, where Toyota looks at past sales and tries to most efficiently send cars to where they will sell the fastest / easiest.
I expect that what they saw for 2021 was that the convertibles sold quickly and the coupes didn't, so that influenced their ratio for later years. So no idea how long that 7-to-1 ratio has been going on, when I saw it was late 2023 to early 2024.
Yeah it is widely accepted that in the sporty 2+2 market verts tend to do better in the US, especially when talking about the cars near/over 6 figures due to the buyer demographics. It's a big part of why they introduced the vert in 2021.
How many LC's produced?
