Date: 13 Jan 2016, Views: 6151

2017 Lexus LC 500 - release, specs, price

2017 Lexus LC 500 is a new sports coupe from the Japanese automaker, the world premiere of which took place at the Detroit Auto Show in the beginning of 2016. The prototype for the new items served concept LF-LC, which is shown here, but four years ago in 2012. If you look at the exterior of the new 2017 Lexus LC 500, it really looks like the above prototype. And if we have become accustomed to a huge brand lattice shaped as an hourglass, the lighting design, the roof line and side air intakes the Japanese borrowed from the source code without major changes.

Overall length of the new 2017 Lexus LC 500 is 4760 mm, the value of the wheelbase is 2870, width - 1920, height - 1 345. On the base of the coupe lay completely new front wheel drive motor Platform GA-L, which was later transferred to the next generation of Lexus series models. When the engine is shifted over the front axle, and the mass ratio of the axes is 52:48. To improve weight distribution battery is moved to the trunk, and the seats are shifted closer to the center.

According to preliminary data, sales of the new 2017 Lexus LC 500 in the United States will begin no earlier than spring 2017 at a price of about $ 100 000. On the limitation edition of the model is not reported, so that it can be assumed that the car will be, though not massive, but there will not be quite piece, as the same LFA, released in 500 copies.