Lexus RC F
Why 7.0: A hand-assembled naturally aspirated V8 revving to 7,300 rpm, in a coupe that starts every morning for 200,000 miles without complaint. The German competition went turbo years ago; RC F buyers specifically wanted the one that didn't.
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Median asking price, good condition · €60k (2015) → €41k (2026), trending down · illustrative data
The long version
Lexus built the RC F as a direct answer to the M4 and C63 coupe, and then spent the whole conversation losing the spec-sheet fight on weight while quietly winning it on engine character — the naturally aspirated 5.0-liter V8 revs to 7,300 rpm with none of the muffled turbo drone that had already taken over the German competition by the time this launched. That trade-off is exactly what its buyers signed up for: reliability and a howling redline over outright lap times, the same IS F playbook one generation later. It gets driven accordingly — owners who wanted a numbers-winning track weapon bought the M4 instead, so what's left in RC F ownership skews toward people using it as a daily coupe that happens to have a genuine V8 under the hood. Depreciation has followed a normal Japanese-luxury-coupe curve, steep early and leveling off once the badge-conscious buyers moved on, which is exactly the window a used-NA-V8 shopper wants to be in.