I've had my LC500 for 1.5 months now and I am just loving the car. Amazing machine, with the exception of the touchpad infotainment.

The question i have is will Lexus end up retiring the V8 and put the new twin turbo V6 from the upcoming LS in the car?

 

LC300t ? who knows
the RC 350 come in turbo engine which is the RC 200t so its possible

 

Who knows. I hope they keep the NA V8 around a long time.

Not sure why people complain about the infotainment, looks good works good (other than RANDOM play isn't random). Maybe that's because I don't f*** around with it when I'm driving.

 

Good topic. I actually went and studied the fueleconomy.gov stats on the LC 500 (459 grams per mile) and LC 500h (301 gpm). The EPA average for 2015 was 358 gpm. The EPA target for cars and trucks, model years 2017-2025, fleetwide, is 163 gpm. The fleetwide average for Lexus models 2017-2018 is 393 gpm.

Bottom line is that in order for Lexus to get 393 grams per mile down to 163, they're going to have phase out the big fun engines. Or flood the rest of their fleet with electric vehicles. I think this may be the last and only model year with a V8 LC 500. Diehards could always just pick up a used one in a few years?

 

Not a worry, as it will be the latter. Toyota makes enough hybrids and small efficient engines to offset a few low volume V8's. Just like Lamborghini is using hybrid in the Urus, so they can keep selling V10 and V12 vehicles.

 

It's not the infotainment per se people complain, it's the touchpad. They prefer the rotary **** or the directional pad. I prefer the touchpad as it is faster to use for me. Maybe these people don't have laptops with touchpads, they use a mouse.

 

Touchpad is OKAY when the car is not moving. While driving on bumpy roads, using touchpad can't be pain in the @**. So basically, I do not use touchpad while driving.
Another negative is there is no physical seat heating and ventilating ****/buttons (or I haven't found them yet?). I can't imagine to use this touchpad turning on/off or adjusting while driving... I guess nothing is perfect.

 

I can see Lexus keeping the V8 in the LC500 until the midcycle refresh in 2-4 years. Then it'll probably switch over to the TTV6. By that time, they'll probably have the LC-F out and that'll probably have some form of a V8 (probably turbocharged).

I can see Lexus rolling out more hybrid options for other models to get their fleet wide gpm down. Kinda like how Volvo announced that they will only produce hybrid or electric cars in 2019 for the US.

 

Agreed. I think the LC will be such a low volume halo car that keeping a V8 in it won't move any needle. Lexus will have to do something with their SUV's though, which is the lion's share of their sales and what's dragging their fleet mpg down. Turbo 4 bangers and hybrids across their SUV lineup by 2020?

 

When a hybrid turbo SUV can tow a boat, then it will become viable. I think we're almost there though.

 

The RX is by far their most popular SUV (and vehicle in general). How many RX owners tow boats? I rarely ever see a tow hitch on them on the road. I'll bet not many LX owners do either; bought just to haul the kids and stuff and sit high up, like most SUV owners.

 

The 3.5L TTV6 will likely come to the LC around 2020/21. This will probably happen when the refresh hits, and around the same time they debut LC F and it's rumored 4.0L TTV8. They don't need to change the name LC500 since the LS500 uses the same TTV6 mill.

 

Been driving a lot and used the touch pad quite often going thru the GPS/song tracks, never have a problem, even on bumpy roads on our RC. Unless you're off roading. With the LC, even with bumpy roads, it should still be smooth. I use the index finger to move around and rest the palm before the pad, see if that helps.

Heating and cooling seat buttons are absent from the looks of it. That's a bummer.

 

I'll try that. Thanks!

 

This is how I position my hand on the touchpad.