Better on road than it is on track, but the RC F still feels like a car that was designed for the last decade, not the next The RC F loosely replaces the old IS F, and essentially it's Japan's intriguing and undeniably striking looking alternative to a BMW M3/M4.Look beyond its arresting new nose and browse what's on offer objectively in the new £59,995 RC F, however, and you will immediately be struck by two thoughts. One, that it appears to represent an awful lot of car for the money. Two, that it is, despite what Lexus might claim, very much an old school kind of sports car.Thought number one is entirely positive, of course, and arrives courtesy of the fact that the RC F looks a million dollars - both in photos and in the metal - and appears to be bursting at the seams with potential.Lexus claims the car can hit 60mph in 4.5sec and has a top speed of almost 170mph but that it is also one of the stiffest and most refined sports coupés the world has ever seen.The gradual realisation of thought number two, however, is rather less welcome today than it might have been 10 years ago.Back then, a brand new rear wheel-drive coupe that's powered by a 5.0-litre V8 engine with 471bhp would have seemed like a mouth watering proposition.Nowadays, such He-Man credentials no longer seem quite so relevant, and they certainly don't feel very cutting edge beside what's on offer from the faster, more economical, less polluting competition from Germany.And perhaps the most baffling statistic of all about the RC F is its kerb weight - because at 1840kg it is a full quarter tonne heavier than the BMW M4/M3 with which it is so obviously intended to compete.To be blunt, sending the RC F into battle with a compromise such as this to bear - against competition like that - almost seems like harakiri on Lexus' behalf.from Autocar RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1o3Zx9C
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