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Among the 72 Lexus entries in the MotorJury library, the Lexus LC holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2017. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Lexus LC properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Lexus LC reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 5.0 L Toyota UR engine#2UR-GSE / 2UR-GSE V8 engine / V8 (LC 500; URZ100) / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 3.5 L Toyota GR engine#8GR; quoted output is 351 kW (LC 500) / 220 kW (LC 500h; petrol engine only); 264 kW (LC 500h; combined system output); kerb weight is recorded at 1931 –; drive goes through 10-speed Direct Shift List of Aisin transmissions#Longitudinal / Aisin AWR10L65 Automatic transmission / automatic (LC 500) / 10-speed Multi Stage Hybrid System automatic (LC 500h); the layout is FMR layout. Worked together, those figures give roughly 182 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Lexus's own catalogue the Lexus LC sits alongside the Lexus ES (V20), the Lexus GS 450h (2012), the Lexus IS 200 (GXE10), the Lexus LS 400. The record names the Lexus SC/Toyota Soarer as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Edward Lee (LF-LC concept) / Tadao Mori (chief designer) / Pansoo Kwon (production exterior: 2013). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Toyota City (Motomachi plant).
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Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.
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