The Lexus LC doesn’t get the recognition it truly deserves. The two-door touring car looks great, it has a lavish cabin, and in the era of downsizing, it packs one of the last remaining naturally aspirated V-8s on the market. The only thing it’s missing is a manual.
But even then, Lexus’s lovely two-door hasn’t been a big hit. In 2024, the company sold just 1,464 total examples of the LC. Lexus moved 1,761 units of the LC the year prior, and 1,387 units the year before that. Since its debut in 2017, the LC has hovered at around 1,500 units per year, with 2021 being the lone outlier; Lexus sold 2,782 LCs that year.
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All told, Lexus has only sold 14,000 examples of the LC (through the first half of 2025) since the touring car went on sale nearly eight years ago. That explains why it may soon be on the chopping block, even with a recent update for the 2026 model year.
Digging even deeper into those figures reveals another damning number: 248.
Following its departure from the lineup earlier this week, Lexus confirmed to Engine that the company has only sold 248 LC Hybrids in the US throughout the vehicle’s entire lifetime. That includes sales for this year, in which Lexus sold just 7 LC Hybrids.
Here’s how those sales for the LC Hybrid shake out by year:
- 2018: 102 Units
- 2019: 37 Units
- 2020: 14 Units
- 2021: 14 Units
- 2022: 19 Units
- 2023: 37 Units
- 2024: 18 Units
- 2025 (as of June): 7 Units
For such an otherwise beautiful sports car, it’s a shame to see sales figures that low. That said, it makes sense why the LC Hybrid was discontinued for 2026.
The LC Hybrid debuted in 2016 and went on sale in the US alongside the V-8 model beginning in 2018. Unfortunately, Lexus swapped the pure gas LC’s 5.0-liter V-8 for a 3.5-liter V-6 with two electric motors, dropping the output from 471 horsepower in the V-8 model to 345 horsepower in the Hybrid. It also used an outdated four-speed automatic transmission.
Thankfully, buyers can still get their hands on the V-8 LC for 2026. Lexus recently debuted a new Inspiration Series with two new exclusive paint colors. It’s limited to just 200 for the coupe and 350 units for the convertible.
