2024
Automatic
23.9 mpg
Tax: n/a
Mileage: 1
Petrol
Semi-Auto
Mileage: 150
Mileage: 500
Tax: £180
Mileage: 1,482
Mileage: 4,284
2021
44.1 mpg
Mileage: 19,250
Hybrid
2019
Tax: £170
Mileage: 26,000
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2018
Mileage: 61,000
Mileage: 83,500
Mileage: 5
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The Lexus RC F is based on the brand's RC Coupe, a car primarily targeted at American tastes but also developed for Europe with smaller, more efficient turbocharged power. That kind of engine is the sort of thing buyers now expect even in the most potent real-world performance cars: it's certainly what's delivered by the most direct rival this RC F must face, BMW's M4. Lexus though, doesn't simply copy the Germans anymore and instead, has simply uprated the old IS F's normally aspirated old-school V8 for this model - though pared it with a quite astonishing array of driver technology. It all leaves us posing this car a whole series of searching questions. Have we here the sort of engine still relevant in the modern world? And if it is, are buyers now ready to take Lexus seriously as a manufacturer of top-drawer sports cars? It's time to find out.
Who'd have thought it would have been demure Lexus, of all people, who would bring us what is one of the most politically incorrect supercoupes on general release? Compared to the RC F, the Audi RS 5 and the BMW M4 look like buttoned-down sybarites. It's more on a par with Mercedes' unreconstructed C63 AMG coupe. Jaguar's F-Type R coupe also sports a 5.0-litre V8 but is some £30,000 more expensive and probably plays to a different crowd anyway. In summary, if you're in the market for something of this kind, I'd urge you to look beyond the press reports and make your own mind up about this RC F. If somebody offered me one of these or a BMW M4 to drive every day for a year, there's no way I'd choose the German car - and I didn't think I'd be saying that before I picked up the keys to this Lexus. It's old school in feel but new wave in execution. And there has to be room in the market for that combination.
Borrow £6,000 with £1,000 deposit over 48 months with a representative APR of 18.1%, monthly payment would be £172.36, with a total cost of credit of £2,273.28 and a total amount payable of £9,273.28.
