Pin lighting still stops us. The artistic roar of its 471 horsepower V-8 still haunts us. And now the top has been removed.
Driving the 2021 Lexus LC Convertible It feels like seeing “Basic Instinct” for the first time, more than a little naughty and aimed directly at the voyeurs, sure, but among all its flaws, there’s something distinctive there. Something worth sitting down for, over and over, just like the LC coupe I’ve been in love since 2016.
This year, the LC dazzles with a new convertible that hardly changes anything about Aston’s simulated recipe that has made the latest Lexus coupe the best two-door effort so far, and easily the most memorable car in its 30-year history. history. The LC is responsible for showing us a never-before-revealed side of Lexus: ambition.
2021 Lexus LC Convertible
Introverts don’t need to be applied, even four years after launch, because the LC is still rare enough and so exquisitely detailed that it doesn’t matter. This is a shape for all ages, with an hourglass grille that hooks between the LED headlights as if throwing stars at your retinas. Those little details elevate the shape of the two doors above the usual rounded roof lines and sensual surfaces. Lexus kicks it into the hockey stick air inlets at the waist, then narrows it all into a rear part restrained with those fork LEDs. George HW Bush needed a thousand points of light to convey his point of view; Lexus only needed four.
The LC accommodates people in comfortable front seats like bees within a flower bud and wraps them in organically stitched wing door panels to flow onto a leather wall and HD screens. It’s a cocoon, but one with a room divider in place to keep passengers away from vital parts: the gear stick, paddle shifter controls, drive mode selector. Lexus keeps them busy with available 915-watt Mark Levinson sound and semi-aniline leather, and that will make them happy.
Drivers can touch all the other pleasure centers when they press the start button and turn on the raucous V-8 of the LC 500 Convertible. There’s a V-6 hybrid coupe that sounds part sewing machine, part Jetsons space scooter; Then there’s the 471-hp 5.0-liter V-8, which is tuned through an available sports exhaust to creak and pop like Rice Krispies through a low-pass filter.With quick changes through a 10-speed automatic transmission, It is capable of a promised 0 to 60 mph run in 4.6 seconds. There’s never a need to hit the gas to move through traffic or squeeze out the precise power needed to load the next set of esses. With the fabric roof down (in about 15 seconds), it’s like it’s designed to shoot through tunnels, back and forth and back, just for the manic soundtrack.
2021 Lexus LC Convertible
It is designed for some calls higher than big tours, but not in a way that runs the risk of becoming brittle. Lexus tunes the gait of the LC Convertible for an absorbing and responsive ride and uses adaptive dampers to round out the tremors that its large, optional 21-inch bands can send through the roofless body. It skips the steering on the rear wheels offered on the hardtop, but it hardly misses it: the LC has one of the best programming Lexus has ever coded on its racks. If there’s a flaw in the LC dynamics, it’s the 4,540-pound curb weight of the Convertible. One would think that Slim-Fast cup holders would send a message, but no.
Unforced errors are so few in the LC Convertible that they fit in a few sentences. The infuriating infotainment interface at least offers an Apple CarPlay override, but not Android Auto, unfortunately. The trunk of the LC Convertible is an inexcusable 3.4 cubic feet; We would give up the useless rear buckets or at least change them for a glass with a tailgate that turned them into a useful space. Gas mileage is around 18 mpg combined, which I combined during my tour of the lower cliffs of Chesapeake in the shadow of nuclear power towers in southern Maryland.
Well Classified for Safety Equipment, $ 102,025 2021 Lexus LC The convertible has quietly infiltrated new territory, Aston and Jag province and even the Mercedes SL. As we’ve said here before, it’s deeply flawed in one or two ways, but it does much more exceptionally well. Perhaps the best thing it does is show where the emotional center of Lexus lives. It is an expensive enclave, but full of interesting character.
Lexus delivered an LC 500 Convertible to my mother and father’s house, and I drove it back south for them, because what am I if I’m not a well-paid transportation worker?
