Lexus LC 500 drives California’s Angeles Crest Highway

To whet your appetite for a test drive, we took the amazing new LC 500 on one of California’s most iconic canyon drives: The Angeles Crest Highway. The launch of the stunning LC 500 luxury coupé marks a brave new era for Lexus. Revolutionising the way we develop cars, preparing the LC 500 for production demanded both great imagination and a totally new approach. Despite having the freedom of a blank canvas, our design team faced huge challenges: How to create a low coupé roofline, but at the same time offer a spacious 2+2 cabin? Taking months to deliberate and sculpt just one single character line, our designers and clay modellers refused to compromise. Nothing was left to chance. So, as the LC 500 prototype neared completion, its aerodynamics were perfected in the world’s most advanced wind tunnel, before high-speed trials began on Fuji Speedway and the Nürburgring in Germany. Manufactured in a new facility at our Motomachi plant in Japan - by many of the same ‘Takumi’ artisans who hand-crafted the LFA supercars – the LC 500 is powered by a hand-tuned V8 engine with the world’s first 10-speed Direct Shift transmission. Find out more about the LC 500: http://fal.cn/uufH Book a Lexus LC test drive: http://fal.cn/uufa Order a brochure: http://fal.cn/uufZ Find a Lexus retailer near you: http://fal.cn/uufM Subscribe to the Lexus Europe channel and ensure you are updated with our latest news, models, events and campaigns. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lexus_EU