Lexus LC 500 Convertible
Why 6.5: Same naturally aspirated V8, same 10-speed automatic, same buyer profile as the coupe — just with a folding roof for the subset of LC buyers who wanted the theater to be audible. It loses a little coupe rigidity and gains real top-down-cruising demand, a trade its buyers make on purpose.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
Lexus tuned the intake tract acoustically and the roof comes off, making this the freest-breathing 5.0 and one of the last big naturally aspirated V8s sold new. But it is still a broad V8 blare capped at 7,300 rpm, not a high-revving exotic.
8-cylinder · naturally aspirated · 7,300 rpm redline · rated 7.9 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €93k (2021) → €88k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
"Isofix child seat mounts x2" for the two rear seats, per Lexus UK's official equipment specification for the Convertible.
Same equipment-sheet pattern as the LC 500 coupe: front passenger airbags listed, no front ISOFIX line item.
Lexus LC 500 Convertible UK Equipment Specifications (media.lexus.co.uk)
The long version
The convertible arrived four years after the coupe specifically for LC buyers who found the closed roof was the only thing keeping them from a car they'd already decided to want, and Lexus priced it as a premium over the coupe rather than a distinct model — the same cross-shop-a-911-leave-with-a-Lexus pattern applies, just louder. Structural reinforcement to compensate for the missing roof adds real weight and quietly dulls the coupe's poise, a trade the buyer base seems to accept without complaint since nobody is cross-shopping this against a Cayman GT4. Resale has tracked close to the coupe's unusually flat curve, further evidence that LC buyers are not shopping the market so much as ignoring it once they've bought in. It shows up at cars-and-coffee with the top down more often than it shows up on any track-day list.