Text:  Yousef Alvi   Photos:  Geoff Dennis

I present to you the following. Modern Art by Lexus.   The 2018 Lexus LC500. A stunning piece of automotive design.  A car you can park in your driveway, pull up a lawn chair and stare at for hours on end.  It is engrossing, enthralling and captivating. It is all of that even before you set foot in it.  

So how does it drive?  It is the perfect GT car.  Quiet, comfortable, capable and fast.  Powered by a 5.0 Liter V8 making 471 horsepower and 398 ft/lbs of torque, it will go from 0-60 in 4.4 seconds and blast through the ¼ in 13.2 seconds.  However, those are all numbers.

Numbers are arbitrary.  It is an easy way for someone to take something in that that have never experienced.  Slipping behind the wheel of the LC500 and feeling the contours of the perfectly molded seats, having your eyes take in the exquisite interior and hearing the engine wail is what makes the experience.  That is the optimum word. The LC500 is an experience…an experience is what makes a car special and that perfectly sums up the 2018 Lexus LC500.