The guys drive two golf-minded convertibles, the Lexus LC500 and C8 Corvette, to see who blends these worlds the best. Are these cars wasted at the country club?
00:00 – 1:58 Cars for Golf?
1:58 – 5:44 Design and Interior
5:44 – 10:03 Power and Performance
10:03 – 15:56 Handling and Ride
15:56 – Conclusions
This episode from Season 8 first Premiered on MotorTrend cable channel in 2021.
#C8 #Corvette #Lexus #LC500 #comparison
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Love it when vette guys review Lexus
I have a 2022 IS350. I am purchasing a new LC500. You guys make way to big of a deal out of the touch pad. it woks fine.
Comparing a GT to a sports car is not a comparison. Unless you guys are saying the vette is a GT. Maybe it crosses over which is impressive. I have a LC 500 and am a drag racer with 9 second street cars but I enjoy the LC as a daily. It is just soooo good!!!!!! I also have a sl55 amg and the LC romps it by 5 mph in the 1320. The sl55 was the hammer back in the day and is still a very fast GT car.
Normally good reviews but this one misses by a mile. I am not an LC owner – but know both cars.
The LC is a grand tourer – it’s not intended to be an out and out performance muscle sports car.
The interior quality is a different level in the LC
The styling of the LC is on another level
…and as the guys state the LC will become a collectible classic.
The corvette vs 911 would be more relevant whereas the LC could/should be compared to the Aston db11 – the LC two thirds of the price!
Gotta ask, how much did GM pay you to record that infomercial?
You didn't mention that if you drive that Corvette hard, the clutches burn up..
This is a no brainer! The Corvette for any occasion!
Where are the golf clubs
"It drives like an SUV", I don't even know if it is a compliment or sarcasm lol. I would choose the Corvette just because it is hard-top, that's it.
I appreciate the comparison. It came down to these two cars for me and I chose to place my deposit for the 2024 LC500 Convertible over an LT3 C8 Convertible. It came down to three reasons:
1. You can expect a Camaro or Cobalt level of customer service and care at Chevy. It reminded me of older complaints when people were buying $100k Nissan GT-Rs only to realize that they're getting Sentra levels of customer service. The clientele and agents that serve the clientele are just not worthy or equipped to service customers purchasing $100k vehicles. You'd actually get better customer service owning a $60k 718 Porsche Cayman than a $100k Corvette.
2. The C8 is sporty but the design looks to be rather immature. It's not what you'd call a beautiful car. A bad ass-car, sure, but not pretty. In Star Wars terms, the C8 is an X-Wing, and the LC500 is a Naboo fighter (the yellow starfighters). The LC has a maturity about it that makes you feel bad ass with the engine sound. The C8 is a bad ass car that lacks maturity. Where I am in life, I want more of a James Bond experience than a Roman Pearce from Fast and the Furious kind of experience.
3. The rear seats. This one's weird because half the reviews say they're good and the other half say they're useless. What I do know is that I can have a toddler seat back there and boom, all of a sudden the LC500 is a classy family car, and now the wife's onboard!
While I appreciate the comparison, I don't think the criteria considered was right. If you're going to use golf as the metric, talk about the cup holders, the service quality, the build quality (I'm hearing several horror stories on FB threads concerning the C8), the fact that there are only a few thousand LCs in the U.S., but everyone and their moms seem to have a C8 now, the comfort, the A/C, not pointing the car in sharp corners—if that were the goal then a Porsche 911 would be a better candidate.
Lexus isn’t trying to set number records on paper or graphs. I don’t understand why people don’t get that. Maybe it’s class? Like in taste? I have friends who shit on Lexus for not being fast enough or what ever, but they never race, gun it, or anything about the engine besides drive it on the road. It’s like some hardheaded way of thinking. I see everyone knock points for it being 2 seconds slower or what ever when that’s not it’s purpose nor care. It’s well about everyday driving. It’s actual luxuries. The leather, the buttons, the stitching, the adhesives that hold things together, it’s about the clips, it’s about the subtle detail that you see everyday. Its about actual class and luxury. They are for different people. I do not care about if I gap people, race them, or how well I can speed around and weave in and out of traffic. I don’t try and impress people, let alone with how my engine is 2 seconds faster or can reach higher tops speeds when I will quite literally never go that fast. It’s about getting in the car and recognizing the real class of the car and how long it’s going to last me. I drive a 2005 Lexus IS and my grandma drives a 2019 Lexus ES. I sit in other people’s cars who’s cost the same, and just have to feel weird in the fact they paid just as much or more to feel like I’m sitting on plastic and hear creaking when I move anything or the already loose buttons and loose ac controls. Because they wanted a car that supposedly drove better than mine.
The coupe looks better for the LC imo. I fesl the same about any car really tho lol. Hopefully Lexus updates the RC F and IS500 soon, especially the former.
I’ve often called the LC500 the Japanese Vette but for even money, I’ll have the C8 (or a C5) all day long!
The golf metric is a good thing from a luggage standpoint. If the car can carry 2 sets of clubs, it’s a sure thing for a pair of duffel bags and maybe a backpack. I don’t golf at all but I’ll take that carry space every single day😎
baseball was quintessential to the design of the LFA
Paul Schmuck makes some good points here
lc is so much better looking.
The golf bag requirement was always a thing for Vettes, and after going mid engine, the reason the rear styling of the Vette was compromised, had to have that chunky butt to fit the bags.
If you wanted to compare these cars as country club cars, you should've done a day hamming it up with the cars at the golf club…how easy they are to live with, get in and out of, storage, ride, how well the AC works with the top down, desirability from other members, things you normally don't find in regular performance reviews, would've been a fun video. ..and you didnt even show any golf bags in the trunk!!. All we heard about was the driving, which didn't fit the point of the video…guys arent carving canyons on the way to play golf, they're driving exactly like the way the Lexus GT was designed to be driven. If performance was the prerogative, then the cars being compared don't make sense…"the Lexus can't keep up"..no kidding.
Should have compared the LC 500 coup that is 200lbs lighter and has rear wheel steering and variable ratio steering. It’s much nimbler than the convertible.
Where you put golf bag in C8 ?
Gran turismo GT GT
Lexus its perfecion. Chevrolet its Chevrolet kkkk
Dopey comparison as many of said. And would it have killed them to try to put clubs in the trunk to see if they fit for the fun of it since that was their click bait to begin with?
Yah…I'd take the Lexus… well. Id drive either, but I'd prefer the lexus.
This is Dumb Comparison!
Am I the only one who would choose the Lexus? Sure, the corvette is nice but in the long run the Lexus will value more. It's not as fast or handle as well but it'll be more comfy, reliable and won't break down live every Chevy before 100k. It'll age better like every convertible Lexus, plus it'll be a rare car in the future because everyone would rather buy a corvette. 😂
The Lexus is still getting the GT car compared with the sports car. Lexus has given this issue with almost hp/tq, muscle car exhaust, and weight. Both cars are great, but it's unfair to compare the reviews.
Thank you gentlemen. THIS is the video that changed my mind and made caused me to change my C8 order to the HTC. The convertible is fantastic. Z51, mag ride, 2Lt. A very good car, in my opinion. Thanks!
These comments are the most obtuse I’ve ever seen on a YouTube car review. Amazing. Both of these cars are designed for old men whose wives don’t touch them anymore. Really very sad.
You guys just understand this car
Passion Guys not power
I love the info system !! Don’t be dumb and just learn it
Both cars are amazing
Give it 5 years and see how crap the corvette is
The Lexus LC500 engine and exhaust acoustically sounds much more aggressive and better than the C8 Corvette. I'll pick the Lexus anytime.
This entire video was hilarious. Let's break down the humor, shall we…
If you are truly deciding on whether to buy a 100K car based on how many steps it takes to activate heated seats 1st, there is something wrong with you and
2nd, common sense says to turn them on before you start driving.
This is the "EverydayDriver" channel and he says" who cares about gas". Well, people who use their car as a daily driver do…
The absolute be all end all for me is the fact they don't even mention safety or reliability. Comparing the two would be a complete joke so they skipped them completely.
Let me get something straight. I personally love the new Corvettes. For the money, I believe they are a steal, performance, and looks all get 5 stars from me. What I know from
being a past GM owner is their quality has gone down the drain the past 20 years. It's hard to find any Lexus that isn't a 4.5 plus out of 5 when it comes to reliability and you
can go back over 40 years and see the same results. The bottom line these two guys are incredibly biased or they were bought and paid for.
👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾 disappointed that you both and your editors are this out of touch. You bash an amazing luxury GT car in a comparison with a tin foil body light weight dedicated sports car. You want a GT car to be heavy. PS: I have had 4 vettes (C6’s and C7’s) and currently daily drive my ‘18 LC500… This was a painful video from an otherwise solid channel 🤦🏾♂️
One day I will own a lc500. That car will be treasured until the end of time.
The LC looks a lot like the LFA and the LFA still looks very modern. If you threw some new light modules in an LFA and I'd think it just rolled out of the factory.
The Vette looks amazing as well.
I feel like I might be the only person in the world who can't think of crossplane V8's as sportscar engines. To me, it fits perfectly that Lexus (maybe revving a bit lower) because it doesn't inspire misbehaviour to me; sounds much more like a relaxed, low-stress cruising engine. I'd have the Lexus for that. The Corvette, on the other hand… I think it would be the PERFECT supercar if it had a 3.5 – 4.0 litre version of nowadays Z06. A screaming flatplane V8 does sound like misbehaviour. Thanks for yet another marvelous video, guys!
You didn't do the mandatory shot of opening the trunk and putting a set(or two?) of golf clubs in.
Comparing apples to nuts
Get a manual Supra problem solved. Lexus is the perfect place for the type of car the LC500 is.
What year are these?
For the normal people that don't play golf think of it this way , replace the clubs and bag and think fishing , your rods a tacklebox a folding camp-chair and small cooler just in case, raingear .
In AU the Lexus sells for about 200k – the Corvette is asking 350k. Easy decision.
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