RE: Lexus LC500 by Liberty Walk

RE: Lexus LC500 by Liberty Walk

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Charybdis

73 posts

283 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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It´s like hiring a highly trained, expensive footballer and then smash his ankles, because limping looks cool.

corozin

2,680 posts

270 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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I like what they're doing but they're hardly Boyd Coddington customs are they.

JimmyConwayNW

3,056 posts

124 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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I absolutely love it, slightly ashamed to say that.

Vocht

1,630 posts

163 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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I'm a huge fan of the LC500 and also like a lot of Liberty Walks work (like this widebody huracan cloud9) but i'm afraid this LC500LW is a bit of a pig! Poor effort imo!


anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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I think you're all being unfair and completely missing the point, obviously with that ride height, those ground-hugging splitters and the extreme suspension setup it's a honed track monster, all unnecessary weight stripped out, high end fully-adjustable suspension system, more power, I mean what's not to like?

It's just a body kit?

getmecoat

Maldini35

2,913 posts

187 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Quickmoose said:
Tongue firmly in cheek here, but the amount of dislike these creations get is funny....
So low you can't drive it on the road you say? Splitters going to bite the dust per chance?
Body work added seemingly haphazardly? Smashed its way through Halfords?
So we talking about the Senna again?

This 'creation' is about as usable and likeable as the Macca, just different sides of the street that's all. One is a manga based styling wk fest, the other is an aerdynamists' wk festy effort at race car.... Compromised for road annnnd compromised for track.
Both legitimately admired and legitimately laughed at.
Lighten up - it’s just a bit of fun

Variety is the spice of life etc.

Oh, and comparing this to the McLaren Senna is nonsense. Surely it’s time you got off that hobby horse?





TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Maldini35 said:
Oh, and comparing this to the McLaren Senna is nonsense.
Oh, I dunno. They seem eminently comparable to me.

They're both tasteless, over-blown, ridiculously impractical bedroom-wall-fodder for teenagers to wk over and junior Emirati princes to tool around Kensington in.

Quickmoose

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4,482 posts

122 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Maldini35 said:
Quickmoose said:
Tongue firmly in cheek here, but the amount of dislike these creations get is funny....
So low you can't drive it on the road you say? Splitters going to bite the dust per chance?
Body work added seemingly haphazardly? Smashed its way through Halfords?
So we talking about the Senna again?

This 'creation' is about as usable and likeable as the Macca, just different sides of the street that's all. One is a manga based styling wk fest, the other is an aerdynamists' wk festy effort at race car.... Compromised for road annnnd compromised for track.
Both legitimately admired and legitimately laughed at.
Lighten up - it’s just a bit of fun

Variety is the spice of life etc.

Oh, and comparing this to the McLaren Senna is nonsense. Surely it’s time you got off that hobby horse?
lighten up? I'm not angry or anything? hehe ...in my first post I said these were a guilty pleasure of mine...and given I also just put both cars can be legitimately liked or laughed at....kinda signifies I'm more than aware what variety is ta.
I'm not a hobby horse.... and as has been noted the comparison stands quite firm. not in stats, cost or even brand status... but on something that has fans from quite extreme opposites weirdly come together over an end product that is hugely compromised.

I hope you're light enough thumbup

Maldini35

2,913 posts

187 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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TooMany2cvs said:
Oh, I dunno. They seem eminently comparable to me.

They're both tasteless, over-blown, ridiculously impractical bedroom-wall-fodder for teenagers to wk over and junior Emirati princes to tool around Kensington in.
Blimey!

I guess both cars are extreme but at different ends of the spectrum - one designed for aesthetics, one designed for performance.

You can of course compare anything, Mother Teresa and Donald Trump etc. but it doesn’t mean the two are in any way similar.

As for you last point - I’m afraid supercars have always been expensive and bought by very rich people.
Rewind 20 years and people were saying the same about the F40.
With the passing of time it’s now seen as a classic and aspired by the ‘old money’ (relatively speaking) - so it’s ok to admit liking it...
Nothing new really and not worth getting upset about.





TooMany2cvs

29,008 posts

125 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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Maldini35 said:
Rewind 20 years and people were saying the same about the F40.
Hate to tell you this, but the F40 is over 30yo now. The F50 is over 20yo, and the Enzo 15... Even the LaF is 5yo. You're getting old!

Maldini35

2,913 posts

187 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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TooMany2cvs said:
Hate to tell you this, but the F40 is over 30yo now. The F50 is over 20yo, and the Enzo 15... Even the LaF is 5yo. You're getting old!
eek

30 years!
How did that happen?


anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 3rd January 2018
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I like it.

I would rather have a Liberty Walk version over the standard one.

It's all personal taste. Would be a boring world if every car was standard and silver colour.

I've modified every car I've had, Porsches, Astons, etc. It's what I enjoy.

axisadman

25 posts

227 months

Thursday 4th January 2018
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yonex said:
'PH in revulsion at non standard car not painted in resale silver shocker'
brilliant rofl

PhantomPH

4,043 posts

224 months

Thursday 4th January 2018
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axisadman said:
yonex said:
'PH in revulsion at non standard car not painted in resale silver shocker'
brilliant rofl
The joke being that it actually is silver? wink