The Original Lexus SC Was Designed Using Balloons Filled With Plaster
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 Published On Jun 25, 2020

The original Lexus SC was so much weirder than you remember. Or I could say that designing it was weirder than you’d imagine.

Welcome back to Auto Archives, the show in which we dive into my personal collection of Car Styling magazine back issues. These issues are packed with never-uploaded-online pictures, sketches, and interviews. I wish I had time to go through every page.

The Lexus SC300 and SC400 of the early 1990s are classic machines of the Bubble Era. The Japanese economy was booming, Japanese car companies had money to burn on engineering—over-engineering—their cars, and they had the competitive markets and high sense of pride to build some of the most advanced, robust cars the world had ever seen. Hell, products of the Bubble Era, like the 2JZ seen in that SC300, are still go-to choices for gearheads today looking for well-made parts.


-Raphael Orlove

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