ICYMI: The luxury brand’s design team received a daunting challenge: to create the world’s most beautiful open-top car. Looks like they’ve nailed it.
They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Well, my two peepers have definitely relished the Lexus LC 500 Convertible, which has just launched locally. Without sounding too much like a gushing fool, I think I’ve just found my most beautiful car of 2021 – and there have been some stunners in this, the second year of the pandemic. Think the Audi RS4, Audi RSQ8, the Merc E300… the Porsche 718 Spyder.
While the LC may struggle to draw guns with the likes of its competitors – the BMW 850i convertible, the Porsche 911 cab and the Mercedes-Benz SL – all of which will in all likelihood beat the Japanese Grand Tourer in a drag race, the LC is not about being the fastest off the finish line. It’s a classic sporty car, a design and engineering masterpiece that deserves to be savoured in its entirety, putting all those German superior kilowatt beasts, , in the shade.
While the two front 10-way, electrically adjustable, heated seats embrace driver and passenger in a cloak of comfort, I am not so sure how comfy back-seat passengers would be as space is tight, but the LC surely can’t be regarded as a family car.