Gadgetory

Alexis hasn't really had a coupe since the late lamented second-generation doe ball that was the SC that died a merciful death in 2010 here is something fresh the RC North American debut here by the way three and a half liter v6 doing 314 horsepower 0 to 60 and 6.1 rear wheeler all-wheel drive blah blah blah nothing too unusual there but this cars got some really different lines they've really started to put some curvaceous nough sin to this vehicle much more than just saying it's a 2-door Lexus IS it doesn't look at all like that to be honest it looks kind of like an upscale Subaru BRZ but they don't want to hear me say that powertrains as I mentioned rear-wheel drive with an 8-speed automatic all-wheel drive with a 6-speed automatic in the cabin notice lexus has completely redone their former remote touch controller which was about to drive me to drink so thank you now it's basically a trackpad that will give you pinch and zoom you can also flick up down left right all kinds of directional control and as you can see some shortcut buttons right alongside it once something hotter they just did a global debut of the RC F this car from about that eight pillars forward is a very different machine those fenders those have real heavily functional intake ducts and on top of the hood yep that's a very functional vent as well on the back you've got a power activated wing that is probably there for pretty good reason because this has the most powerful v8 they've put into a production Lexus it only shares a block with an is-is v8 and the heads and all the other mechanicals are much faster revving more powerful now by the way back to this RC it has a variable valve technology that's now electric that means that they can do just about anything with valve timing and phasing which means when you're not pushing it very hard it can run as an atkinson cycle in other words lean-burn like a Prius step on it and it turns into a high compression machine hard to do without extremely addressable valves