New Lexus RC photos emerge

Kinja'd!!! "El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone)
11/05/2013 at 08:53 • Filed to: None

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If you don't appreciate the fact that Lexus cares enough to build this car, you're an asshole.

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Kinja'd!!! PS9 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:04

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The only decent application of the predator grill.


Kinja'd!!! Demon-Xanth knows how to operate a street. > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:10

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But is it really radio controlled?


Kinja'd!!! KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:14

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This, however, is a problem.

The original SC300 had the option of shift it yourself with a clutch. Until 1997.


Kinja'd!!! William Byrd > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:15

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I dig it, very cool looking car.


Kinja'd!!! efme > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:17

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tail looks awesome. They're assholes for putting that LED eye sack under the headlight cluster. fuck you Lexus.


Kinja'd!!! El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs
11/05/2013 at 09:18

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It's a coupe, I'm sure they will offer a manual, at least in some markets.


Kinja'd!!! KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:27

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I'll believe it when I see it, knowing the Lexus product planners.


Kinja'd!!! JohnnyJ23 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:39

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this steering wheel has got to go


Kinja'd!!! SkarTisu > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:52

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I respect that they're building the car. For the love of God they have to back the styling off one or two clicks though. They're trying too hard.


Kinja'd!!! Wakemaker89 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 09:59

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I find it unlikely, I suspect it will get the same 8 speed direct transmission that is in the current IS-F


Kinja'd!!! EL_ULY > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 10:07

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Oh man, im in love!!!!


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 11:05

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I grudgingly accept that the car looks kinda cool. It might even be nice to drive. But seriously, there is absolutely no way I'm ever going to get a car that has a damned laptop trackpad like this.


Kinja'd!!! El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > Textured Soy Protein
11/05/2013 at 11:08

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Well, we all use trackpads on laptops today, so operating the infotainment of the car, will come as natural as using your laptop.


Kinja'd!!! wtrmlnjuc > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 12:01

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WHY?!


Kinja'd!!! Textured Soy Protein > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!
11/05/2013 at 12:34

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I don't want to operate a car's infotainment system. I want to drive the car. Yes there's the occasional adjusting HVAC or stereo, and making phone calls (hands free yo!) but give me my damned buttons and knobs and not a computer.

I say this even though I work at a tech company staring at dual monitors all day, have multiple laptops, iPad, smartphone, etc etc etc. I don't want to mess with that nonsense while driving.

The particularly stupid thing about all this infotainment crap is that the useful life of a car is way longer than your average smartphone/tablet/whathaveyou. In my searching for a winter car, I last week test drove an '04 4Runner. It had navigation. The 2004-vintage navigation system is horrendous, and that's how you're stuck messing with the stereo on that car.

Buttons & knobs with only as much of a display needed to accomplish the function > infotainment