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Lexus has been getting a lot of press for their LF-LC concept vehicle, pictured here, which had the sheets yanked off of it at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and subsequently snapped up the EyesOn Design Awards Best Concept prize. But while the snazzy exterior has everyone a'Twitter, it's the design of the interior that caught our eye.
The graphics on the dashboard seen up top might be a bit much, seemingly intended to dazzle rather than convey information, but we're digging the way the center console unfurls in a leather-wrapped spiral.
Lexus execs claim the LF-LC, which was designed at parent company Toyota's CALTY design studio in California, is indicative of the design direction the company will pursue in the immediate future.
Hit the jump for aforementioned snazzy exterior shots.
Comments
This, like *nearly* all Japanese auto design, looks really kewl at the concept stage, but gets watered way down by the time it hits production, and looks extremely dated three years later. I can count on one hand the number of lasting designs Toyota has had in the past 25 years.
Yuck. Take a nod from those Chevy speedometers, or Patek Philippe for that matter. An analog speedometer is important not just for the safety reason that it's easier to understand rate of change, but also to physically feel the power of the car forcing the needle upward. That sense of power--so important in a luxury car--is lost in a digital display.
If these designers insist on digital readouts, their best design inspiration is probably their own iPhones.
sadly this will never ever ever ever exist.
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The interior reminds me of the exterior of the Enterprise E NCC-1701