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We gave you a first look at it last week, and now Lexus has dropped all the details on its stunning new 2+2 concept, the LF-LC.
Actually, it hasn't. Dropped all the details, that is. Unveiling the concept in Detroit, Lexus bosses talked plenty about design language and styling direction and plunging waterfalls (not really sure what that last one was about, to be honest)... but frustratingly wouldn't reveal what was hiding under the LF-LC's sleek bonnet.
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Still, the little we know is promising. We know the LF-LC is front-engined and rear-wheel drive. We know it's a hybrid (sorry, live with it). We know it's a 2+2 with a pretty cursory pair of rear seats.
And, most importantly, we know Lexus is desperate to bring the LF-LC – or something very like it – to production. A proper 2+2 sports car would provide a vital link between the bonkers LFA hypercar and the rest of Lexus's worthy-but-largely-dull line-up (IS-F honourably excepted), and if it looks like the LF-LC then so much the better.
Because this thing is stunning. OK, most of the flourishes – the one-piece glass wrapover windscreen-roof, the evil light clusters, the filigree wing mirrors and, most obviously, the loopy, swoopy interior with pop-up touchscreens – will have to be toned down for production, but even so, the basic proportions and styling of the LF-LC are spot-on.
Lexus says the coupe previews its new brand styling direction. Any styling direction that includes rear lights inspired by fighter-jet afterburners is fine by us.
So, if Lexus won't tell us, we'll leave it up to you lot. What do you think is lurking under the LF-LC's bonnet, hooked up to a commendable-but-essentially-unnecessary electric motor? The V8 from the IS-F? The V10 from the LFA? Or something else entirely?
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Danyoooo commented on this article
at 08:23 pm on 09 January 2012
i think its going to be something close to the IS-F's V8 maybe the same one or a tune version of it.
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at 08:27 pm on 09 January 2012
V10 sounds too big, maybe the V8, but they could come up with something different, like a straight six, or a V6... Let's just hope it drives as well as a Evora S or a 911...
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at 08:39 pm on 09 January 2012
well because it's a hybrid i change my opinion to a v6 and if you look what Nissan did to the GT-R's v6 (530bhp or something like that) i think it's well enough but a v8 would sound better
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at 09:32 pm on 09 January 2012
Hybrid should never be in the same sentence as sportscar. KERS yes, in limited dose. Hybrid is pure and utter nonsense for a sportscar.
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at 09:41 pm on 09 January 2012
waterever will bring performence and great noise is welcome in my drive way so if a hybrid can have the niose i am looking for ( a sound like every other supercars) and the performance it is welcome. If i have the money to get one i'll will be added to my collection for sure. Just look at it it is great.
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