The LS430 Coupé

Kinja'd!!! by "Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
Published 02/07/2017 at 10:24

Tags: shortened overhangs ; Photoshop ; FiveMinutePhotoshop ; lexus ; ls430
STARS: 7


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A dignified choice for the empty-nester who takes life at a slightly more leisurely pace.


Replies (14)

Kinja'd!!! "PS9" (PS9)
02/07/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 2

Who is also avante-garde enough to be sick of Automotive Window based tyranny. Why drive a car with a side window you can’t roll down and the need to crawl into it like some kind of burrowing woodland creature? Because FREEDOM, that’s why!

Kinja'd!!! "SpeedSix" (speedsix)
02/07/2017 at 10:29, STARS: 1

It looks rather like a two-door sedan version of the W140, which was something I never noticed about this generation on LS before ...

Kinja'd!!! "PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
02/07/2017 at 10:32, STARS: 0

I feel like any coupe should have a slight rise in the beltline past the door, but that’s just me and frankly Lexus (apart from the OG SC) sucks at coupes , so they would not have done it correctly.

Kinja'd!!! "Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
02/07/2017 at 10:32, STARS: 2

Messing with these two Lexii has made it readily apparent exactly who it was that Lexus was pilfering from in the 90s/early 00s.

Kinja'd!!! "Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
02/07/2017 at 10:33, STARS: 0

dude it’s just suuuuper seamless glass!

Kinja'd!!! "Your boy, BJR" (jerseyshoreben)
02/07/2017 at 10:51, STARS: 2

Top needs to be lower.

Kinja'd!!! "Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker)
02/07/2017 at 10:55, STARS: 3

Our clientele will accept neither reduced greenhouse space nor reduced visibility.

Kinja'd!!! "SpeedSix" (speedsix)
02/07/2017 at 11:14, STARS: 0

It makes for a very nice two door sedan then.

Kinja'd!!! "SpeedSix" (speedsix)
02/07/2017 at 11:16, STARS: 0

I actually wasn’t aware of your previous reworks, since I spend little time on Oppo these days due to incessant shitposting, but I find these what-ifs very entertaining.

Kinja'd!!! "HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles" (hondasfordsvolvo)
02/07/2017 at 11:19, STARS: 0

You should make the hood longer, between the front wheels, and door. Lexus V1actually I just realized what’s really wrong. With the proportions, the door is too short.

Kinja'd!!! "fintail" (fintail)
02/07/2017 at 11:27, STARS: 1

Indeed, all I can see is this:

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Where the first LS was kind of an updated W126, the 21st century model is really a W140 clone.

Kinja'd!!! "RT" (rt-p)
02/07/2017 at 11:49, STARS: 0

But Bruno Sacco himself said that the near-perfect W140 S-Klasse was ‘four inches too tall’, so checkmate.

Kinja'd!!! "RT" (rt-p)
02/07/2017 at 11:52, STARS: 0

I have three suggestions, if it’s possible with you.

Bentley Brooklands, Lincoln Mark VIII and Citroën C6.

Mainly because those cars have all the overhang.

Kinja'd!!! "kanadanmajava1" (kanadanmajava1)
02/07/2017 at 15:16, STARS: 0

Then take the whole roof off. No worries about visibility.