New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date, Interior, MPG

New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date, Interior, MPG –  Partly cloudy, a balmy 19 degrees Celsius, a quiet, winding, rural backroad, and a 2025 Lexus LC Convertible primed to its loudest, sportiest, most white-gauged setting. Appropriately, perhaps, “I Got Mine” by The Black Keys started blasting from the car’s top-shelf audio system. No responsibilities, no traffic, no cops, no fear. Just me and one fabulous motor vehicle with nothing but time and fuel to burn. Leaning on the gas and letting that metallic V8 cry reverberate off the trees and back into my eardrums with nothing but the crisp, spring Saturday afternoon air getting in the way, “This is it,” I thought to myself. “This is living.”

New 2026 Lexus LC Redesign and Update Plan

Exterior and Interior

Arguably the biggest and only real blemish with this car, the LC Convertible uses Lexus’s much-maligned touchpad infotainment controller. It’s hard to use and, unfortunately, the only way to interact with the centre screen. All of the LC’s other controls, however, are much easier to get around. The steering wheel controls, shifter, and HVAC switches (sized and spaced out in a way that reminds me of piano keys) are all very intuitive. A big hifi-style volume knob is weighty, smooth, and extremely satisfying to operate.

The switch to operate the soft top, meanwhile, is hidden underneath a flip-up panel located aft the touchpad and is likely a puzzle to find if you don’t already know where it is. This top toggle is accompanied by a switch that lets you open or close all of the windows simultaneously.

New 2026 Lexus LC Specs

Lexus doesn’t offer any option packages that would hike up the price or, of course, complicate manufacturing. Instead, all LC convertibles come standard with a 10.3-inch touchpad infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a 13-speaker premium audio system, dual-zone automatic climate control, a head-up display, Lexus’s enduringly neat digital gauge display that physically moves to one side, and, of course, that retractable top. In typical Lexus fashion, the stereo system sounds stellar but, likely due to different acoustics, not quite as amazing as I remember it sounding in the coupe.

Engine and Performance

As easy as the LC is on the eyes, its voice might be even more enjoyable to behold. It’s the same 5.0L V8 found in the company’s RC F coupe and brutish IS 500 sedan, but because the LC has a different exhaust setup from those cars, it sounds best here. It’s musical and animal-like – growly at low revs and able to scream like the world’s coolest trumpet at high ones. Run it up against the rev limiter and it emits the most gloriously obnoxious machine gun noises, almost as if it was specifically designed to do so – ridiculous considering this is Toyota we’re ultimately talking about.  New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date

Not only does the LC sound better than its RC F and IS 500 brethren but, in my view, it also sounds better than the more gravelly Jaguar F-Type. It sounds better than the whiningly supercharged Hellcats from Dodge, it sounds better than the race car Acura NSX Type S, and – I may need to whisper this part – I genuinely think it sounds better than Lamborghini’s manic V10. (That’s better. Not louder or more aggro. Better.) Engine audio truly is the marvellous centrepiece of the LC, and it’s all amplified with this open-air convertible version.

New 2026 Lexus LC Fuel Economy

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has rated the 2025 LC Convertible for 16.0 L/100 km in the city, 9.5 on the highway, and 13.0 combined. Driven like it was born to be driven, however, and I observed a frankly laughable 16.8 L/100 km after precisely 484 test km. Premium gasoline is, of course, required.  New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date

New 2026 Lexus LC Safety Features

Fun fact: Lexus Canada imposes a 500-km mileage limit for press loans, and since I refused to hand any of those kms over to any sort of semi-autonomous driving system, your guess is as good as mine as to how well the LC’s all-speed range adaptive cruise control performs. Other onboard safety features include automatic high-beam headlights, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, lane-departure alert with steering assist, a pre-collision system, and an active roll bar that keeps occupants’ heads from hitting the ground in the event of a rollover. The LC Convertible is surprisingly easy to see out of, all things considered, but the presence of blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert helps for sure.  New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date

New 2026 Lexus LC Price and Release Date

As long as you can afford the fuel bills, however, the Lexus LC isn’t actually that expensive to buy given what you get and the other cars in this arena. Lexus charges $124,300 as a base price, but add $650 for the orange paint and $2,175 for destination, and this tester came out to $127,095 before taxes. For the fun and thrills I had in it, this honestly feels completely reasonable. For comparison, $127,000 won’t even pay for a base, no-options-ticked Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet. Or an options-free BMW M850i cabriolet.  New 2026 Lexus LC Release Date