Lexus
This is the catalogue record of the Lexus RC, one of 72 models Lexus has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2014. 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 RC 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 Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro, the Infiniti Infiniti Q50, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Lexus RC reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L Toyota AR engine#8AR-FTS / 8AR-FTS Straight-four engine / I4-Turbocharger / T (Petrol engine / petrol, RC 200t/300) / 2.5 L Toyota AR engine#2AR-FSE / 2AR-FSE I4 (petrol Hybr; quoted output is 180 kW (RC 200t/300) / 131 kW (RC 300h, petrol engine only) / 234 kW (RC 350) / 341 – (RC F); kerb weight is recorded at 1680 –; drive goes through 8-speed Automatic transmission / automatic (petrol, RWD) / 6-speed automatic (petrol, AWD) / eCVT (hybrid); the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, all-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 107 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 RC 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 IS C (XE20) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Pansoo Kwon (2012). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Tahara, Aichi (Tahara plant).
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