You may have already seen
the new Lexus LF-LC hybrid coupe
concept courtesy of the story we published a little while back, but here it is strutting its stuff under the lights of the Detroit motor show.
The slinky 2+2 is of course mostly pure motor show glitz, a design study hinting at "design cues that are coming in a wave of new Lexus models over the next two years."
Teased pre-show, the Lexus is now revealed
But it is also a hint that Lexus is seriously looking into the large coupe segment, a market it departed when it ditched the largely unloved (and largely unlovely) SC430 folding hard-top.
If the LF-LC does bear production fruit, expect it to take the form of a rival for the new Mercedes SL, most likely as a hybrid V8.
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