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Lexus LC500 Convertible

3 years ago

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

12 April 2021

If a car looked sensational, had beneath its bonnet one of the most stirring engines in production today and pampered its occupants with probably the best cabin of any sub-£100,000 car, how sizeable a shortcoming would you be prepared to overlook? I think you’d forgive that car its unnecessarily fiddly infotainment interface and even its hopeless rear seats. But would you willingly disregard the fact that car had a major identity crisis? Perhaps you would, but I don’t think I can.

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