It would be refreshing to hear the project engineer(s) saying the final product will look more aggressive than this "Auto Show" version.

 

Well it's not about "understanding" it's purely personal preference.

 

Front profile will always look good in person. The rear looks nice.

The good thing is that the side profile actually looks nice. A weak area in the spindle grill Lexus cars

 

But Lexus better bring all the variants in one time. Waiting a year or so for the V8 would be quite a disappointment IMO

 

To date this is my favorite picture of the RC. The Lexus sedan line tends to be very conservative in side profiles, sort of slab a look with few defining lines



I have a feeling you're going to be disappointed

 

I dunno, unusual for them to release what at least in the teaser pic looks like a production ready RC-F so close to the release of the production ready RC if they were going to wait a year...

 

the lexus international RC website says its 318bhp so +12hp over the current engine

 

06 IS350 was rated at 5.3

 

Nice ecu tune...

 

He was saying all variants. RC200t, RC350, RC-F, possible hybrid. They won't all initially release at the same time. RC350 and F are supposed to be close to each other, the others according to Lexus Product Council are still being planned

 

That I agree with, but I do think we'll have The RC350 and the RC-F pretty close together.

 

do you guys mean in USA or worldwide? Because 300h is already shown in Japan, and RC350 will likely be only for USA.

That leaves RC-F which will be shown soon enough (3 weeks) and then we have RC200t which will likely be shown at Geneva for European market and will likely not come to USA, just like RC300h.

So if we are talking about world wide, i think they will be released close to each other... most likely because competition will have their cars out (4 series), so it really makes no sense to wait with RC-F as people looking at it will then simply buy M4. And it will not be competing with other cars in its lineup, like RC350. Difference in pricing and power will be pretty vast between 350 and F.

 

I haven't seen anything about the LFA instrumentation the IS F-Sport offers for the RC line, yet. Would we expect it to be offered only in the F-Sport and "F" models?

 

I'm sure if they have it it will only be for the F-Sport/RC-F

 

With NO talks of an RC250 for USA, I'm very confident the replacement will be RC200t for this market..

The goal is to phase out the 250 motor all together..

Also we have had an RCF on the ground here in SoCal for the last 4-5 months.. Also it was seen testing recently at NOLA Motorsports Park during the yearly dealer meeting!! It's as ready as it will ever be.

~ Joe Z

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