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Behind the Wheel of the 2024 LC 500: Luxury Meets Performance · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:13
  Speaker 1: So, while we wait for our next guest here, Mr Mars is going to do his review of the 2024 Lexus LC 500 Coupe de Accelante.
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: Great looking car.
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  Speaker 2: It is probably, I think, one of the most beautiful cars made in this country.
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: Is it made in this country?
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think it is.
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: I think they sell it in this country they sell it.
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's sold in this country.
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: Well, it's made, so it's the best made in the country that it's made in.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: So the LC 500 series started in 2018, when it was first introduced in by Lexus by Lexus and it is available in two trim levels.
• 0:50
  Speaker 2: You can have a coupe or convertible.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: That's your two choices.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: It's LC 500 through and through, now new for this year.
• 0:57
  Speaker 2: They do have a new ultrasonic blue mica color.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: That is just that's the one we had.
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  Speaker 2: Really stands out Breathtaking it really was and it's a sports coupe and this is what you could call a GT, a grand touring car, if you want to.
• 1:11
  Speaker 2: It says it's really to seat four people.
• 1:13
  Speaker 2: I don't know how in the world you could get four people in there too.
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: They just need to go with two and everybody be happy, because everybody's got plenty of room at two A pride you're going to find.
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  Speaker 2: You got triple beam headlamps that really give it a nighttime nice look to it.
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  Speaker 2: Got gorgeous body lines that's curved where it should be curved and it's smooth where it's supposed to be smooth.
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: Did you run over that parking bar there, I think he did he might have?
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Did you bend up the front end of this?
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  Speaker 3: We're moving on.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: We're moving on, sorry.
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  Speaker 2: So and it's got a glass roof.
• 1:43
  Speaker 2: It's basically a sunshade but it's all tall Top of it's solid glass and we're rolling on to 21 inch black alloy wheels and this.
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: I thought at first how weird a speed activated rear wing, but then I got in and drove it.
• 1:56
  Speaker 1: And broke it?
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  Speaker 2: No, but I tried to see if it would work.
• 1:59
  Speaker 2: So you get inside this vehicle, and you got some leather seating areas.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: The front seats are heated and ventilated, got a 12.3 inch screen for the Lexus interface.
• 2:09
  Speaker 2: Now that's where you're going to find all your nav.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: You're going to find all your comfort controls, your convenience controls, and this thing is equipped with Apple CarPlay, android Auto and Alexa.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: You got all three of them that you can hook up to it and talk to Alexa while you're going down the road.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: Now, it does have paddle shifters in it, and you think first well, this is a pretty nice car with paddle shifter.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's got a use for them, and it does come with a Mark Levinson premium audio system with just 13 speakers, which is a $1,220 option, and you can crank it up if you want to, but you really don't want to.
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: What it needs, though, is more storage.
• 2:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, for example, small storage.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: For example, my iPhone.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: I couldn't find a place to put my iPhone.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: You could plug it in to get the Apple CarPlay to work, but there's no holder, there's no wireless charger, there's nothing to set it on.
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: You're not supposed to be on the phone in this car.
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you need a place to put it, to lay it, put it in your pocket.
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: This is a car to be driven.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: Well, I drove it, so anyway it needs some small storage places for some things like that, because, up under the hood, 5.0 liter V8, 471 horsepower, 398 pound-feet of torque, backed by a 10-speed automatic transmission.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: Did you get a ticket in this?
• 3:23
  Speaker 3: No, sorry, I did not.
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  Speaker 3: And what a gorgeous underhood it is.
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, because the upper truck towers look like jewelry.
• 3:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's just that gorgeous.
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  Speaker 2: It is just.
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: It's a very nicely done car, no matter which point you look at it.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: Now the EPA says you should be looking for 16 in the city Highway, 24 combined 18.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: I will tell you, I drove this car 343.2 miles.
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: Obviously a lot of it was out on the highway, driving it back and forth to the show and things, and I got 19.7 for the week that I had it.
• 3:52
  Speaker 2: It's been a car but I was really impressed.
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: If I was really going to change anything, I wouldn't change much about this car other than the small irritating things like no place to put your phone.
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: It rides smooth, it's quiet, it's really got to quiet.
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  Speaker 2: You don't hear much of the road noise.
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: And when I say you don't really want to do too much because of the exhaust, note on, it is so nice, it's got such a rich sound and the exhaust you really don't want to crank that audio system up.
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: But if you decide you want to, obviously it'll do something.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: Now I will tell you the base trim price on this vehicle is $99,300.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: 99 bottles of beer on the wall Now as tested, MSRP is 107.680.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: Which is not a big step up because there's not a lot of options on this vehicle other than you get past the stereo for $1,200.
• 4:36
  Speaker 2: You want to try and look for something else in a grand touring car, you might look at a BMW 8.
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: Now those things start out at $90,800 and go up.
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: Mercedes-benz has got one that hits at $100,000.
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: And the Porsche 911, I just threw it in there because it is still considered a sport-coupe driving car $114,400.
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: Now the LC 500 is not a track car that you're going to go out, necessarily, and put out on the track.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: But Doug Gona thing is fun to drive on the highway, remote start and all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It's, yeah, anything you would expect out of a luxury-type vehicle other than a place to put your phone is there.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: And I really, if I was doing it, if I could afford one of those cars, I would take it to somebody.
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: Take out the back seat and make it more like a Corvette, a two-seater that way, Because there's only like five cubic feet of space in the back, there's not much place.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: You can't stuff your mother-in-law in the back in the trunk because it's not in the room.
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: But if you yeah, you need something like that, but it's.
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: It's really, if you step off and look at it, whether it's in the blue, whether it's in the red, there's a white that I showed up there on the video.
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  Speaker 3: This is just I like the silver, and it's beautiful, and it's beautiful, and it's beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how she described it.
• 5:48
  Speaker 2: It's just a beautiful car.
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  Speaker 1: Kathy's got a white one.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't have the 500.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: She's she's got a different model, but she loves it yeah.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: And they do a really nice job on the paint on them, and that's really what also helps.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, and Lexus has them running this weekend at the 24 hours of Daytona.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: They all see in the GT, in the GTP category.
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  Speaker 1: This was running up against the Cadillac.
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: No, this is what's running up against the Corvettes and the Lamborghinis.
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: They all see 500.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: The Aston Martins.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, RC RC LC LC.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the two-door coupe, the one you drove, they they have a cow, wasn't it?
• 6:25
  Speaker 3: No, see, lc.
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, back to you, don, before it goes any further south, where it goes sideways.
• 6:31
  Speaker 1: I want to remind you that this program is available 24 seven on the iHeart radio app.