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These cars are really cool but they don't come in a package I see myself ever wanting. For the great capability of being a luxury GT these cars have I'd want an interior with more space. To have such exterior dimensions, weight, and price, I like something such as a C63 sedan much more.
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I also have no issue with wanting more performance. My issue however (and I feel like I've said this a million times at this point), is when achieving that performance comes at the EXPENSE of fun. If you can have performance while maintaining the fun, that's the ideal situation. However more and more we're starting to see cars become more clinical. It's about hitting performance numbers as opposed to how the car makes you feel. An example of this is the Model S Plaid. The performance is absolutely insane. But it feels so incredibly clinical and anticlimactic. Once you're beyond the initial shock of the performance, it all sort of gets to be sterile and unexciting. That's an extreme example, but take for example an M8. The performance is incredible, but I remember reading a Motortrend article where they said something along the lines of, "how can something that performs so well feel so stale". By no means am I saying an LC500 is a better car than the M8. I'd get an M8 over an LC500 9 times out of 10. But it represents the direction we're headed. The Lexus represents what used to make cars cool. It doesn't feel clinical or sterile. It's not trying to be a track monster. Would it have been nice to have more performance? of course. But I sure as hell wish newer BMWs had a whole lot more engagement.
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And that's what every EV feels like to me... sterile and clinical. I don't care if it's an e-tron, it feels like it is just slapping layer upon layer of tech on top of something that is just fundamentally boring.
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But sure, if I can find one that looks like that yellow one, complete with an aftermarket exhaust and tune, I'd consider it. And the Lexus RC just looks like goofy to me, like an anime car. I used to be a Lexus fan, but the interior and exterior, now they just leave me cold. I'd take an LFA, but really only for that engine and suspension. The rest of the car? Meh. Last edited by KevinGS; 11-02-2021 at 03:13 PM.. |
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As I mentioned, the exhaust is pretty damn near spot on out of the box, which I find super cool coming from Lexus. That part is for sure fun. Is there anything else I'd describe as "fun" from this car? Not really. Nothing wrong with that as a cruiser of course. This is also why I kind of have an issue with the IS500. Yes, I am all for an NA V8 in 2021, but I just wished it did something better than M or AMG cars from circa 2009 (yes I know they're reliable, I happen to be a Toyota truck fan)
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Savagegeese owns one so that's gotta mean something! Lol
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Can't agree more with you on this... Lotus Emira is pretty much the same price (I know different classes but still). If we would be leaving in the normal world, those LC500's should around high 40's, which makes much more sense. But again, things are far from normal those days.
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The LC-F was supposedly cancelled, but it looks like Lexus is cooking something up...
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