New RC300h F Sport Black Edition

[Chafford1]

New RC300h F Sport Black Edition on sale in the UK from 1 May at £45,165

http://media.lexus.co.uk/2018/02/lexus-announces-new-rc-300h-f-sport-black-edition-black-theme-inspired-traditional-japanese-sumi-ink/

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[rayaans]

Looks very good in black with the de-chrome should look even better.

Orange stitching on the interior looks good but personally, a bit too black for me. Would have been interesting if they had orange leather seats instead!

 

[dutchie01]

a beauty!

[Rabbers]

Very nice, though arguably an unnecessary piece of tarting up, albeit largely redeemed, of course, by the high standard of Lexus build and materials. 

Personally I find the result somewhat over-sleek, it putting me in mind of a sort of down-scaled Batmobile in which the driver also needs to wear

black in order to maintain the overall look.   It would also require he or she to obsess over the tiniest bit of dirt or blemish, thus making it perhaps

more suited to showrooms than everyday use.

 

It is difficult to figure out Lexus' commercial rationale by following in, most notably, Mercedes' footsteps with an "Edition" of this type, unless the

idea is to shift a number of possibly slow-moving excess inventories of bought-in components such as ML speakers, sunroof motors,  19" rims

and tyres, black leather, roof-lining cloth etc., by neatly tying them all up into what is, for some, an undoubtedly appealing and good-value package.

[dutchie01]

Could be called the Ray Ban edition!   ( still like it though..).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[NemesisUK]

Looks great on the outside, I just love black cars, just hate trying to keep them clean!!

The inside is just too dark for my taste 

[rayaans]

Official pictures:

Major issue I see with it is it just looks like a Black RC - its only inside where there is a difference and Im sure most wont even notice the orange stitching.

[ColinBarber]

1 hour ago, rayaans said:

Major issue I see with it is it just looks like a Black RC - its only inside where there is a difference and Im sure most wont even notice the orange stitching.

I agree, unless it is next to a standard black RC you may not see much of a difference. Weird that the black edition looks less black than the standard one, somewhere in-between Velvet Black and Mercury Grey.

[rayaans]

6 hours ago, ColinBarber said:

I agree, unless it is next to a standard black RC you may not see much of a difference. Weird that the black edition looks less black than the standard one, somewhere in-between Velvet Black and Mercury Grey.

I think its the lighting. The Graphite black has a lot of silver flake in it and does look very dark grey in sunlight

Having said that, in the UK its probably not too much of an issue.