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Written by Jack Rix
Technology, eh? What a wondrous thing. It greases the sides of our lives, trimming time and effort from humdrum tasks. It connects us to everyone we"ve ever shared a classroom, or an office, or saliva with, and has the potential to save our planet from a watery demise.But is that necessarily a good thing? At what point do the benefits cease and we turn around to find a world populated with toneless, emotionless blobs of flesh, more concerned with social media feeds than real, visceral experiences?As luck would have it, Lexus has brewed up the ideal experiment to answer our in-no-way hyperbolic musings. Here we have two dramatically styled luxury coupes spawned from the 2012 LF-LC Concept and based on a new lighter, stiffer rear-drive platform identical twins but with polar opposite approaches to the same task: hurling you down a road and making you look sexy while you"re at it.One the LC500h is a spectacularly complicated hybrid, harnessing V6 petrol and electrical power for devilish performance and virtuous fuel economy, the other the LC500 is a tasty bit of old-school muscle with a naturally aspirated V8 intent on bullying the rear tyres. This is Facebook vs the phone book, Amazon vs Woolworths, a heart emoji vs a handwritten love letter. This feature was originally published in issue 291 of Top Gear magazine
Date written: 29 Jan 2017
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ID: 6569
Technology, eh? What a wondrous thing. It greases the sides of our lives, trimming time and effort from humdrum tasks. It connects us to everyone we"ve ever shared a classroom, or an office, or saliva with, and has the potential to save our planet from a watery demise.But is that necessarily a good thing? At what point do the benefits cease and we turn around to find a world populated with toneless, emotionless blobs of flesh, more concerned with social media feeds than real, visceral experiences?As luck would have it, Lexus has brewed up the ideal experiment to answer our in-no-way hyperbolic musings. Here we have two dramatically styled luxury coupes spawned from the 2012 LF-LC Concept and based on a new lighter, stiffer rear-drive platform identical twins but with polar opposite approaches to the same task: hurling you down a road and making you look sexy while you"re at it.One the LC500h is a spectacularly complicated hybrid, harnessing V6 petrol and electrical power for devilish performance and virtuous fuel economy, the other the LC500 is a tasty bit of old-school muscle with a naturally aspirated V8 intent on bullying the rear tyres. This is Facebook vs the phone book, Amazon vs Woolworths, a heart emoji vs a handwritten love letter. This feature was originally published in issue 291 of Top Gear magazine
Date written: 29 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6569
