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Autobild Germany has pitted the new Audi RS5 against the LC500.
You can read the article here. The title is "Geld oder Liebe" (yellow or love) where the LC500 is the one that is yellow:
http://www.autobild.de/artikel/audi-rs-5-lexus-lc-500-test-13304493.html
The article starts out by telling that the Audi RS5 had just lost a comparison review against the BMW M4 and Mercedes-AMG C 63. Luckily they have an LC500 on hand so that the Audi can save some face.
The article continues with by describing the fancy new details of the Audi while sprinkling in some complaints about the LC (weight, you have to control seat heating using the touchpad, how a V8 is old school technology, that the door handles Jaguar, etc.)
Read a translated version if you can stomach it. I was surprised by seeing not one, but two points raised against the Audi: High price and uncomfortable ride. Autobild has become quite adventurous lately!
The conclusion is (apart from the obvious win by anything German over anything non-German) that Lexus has spent too much focus on design, and too little on weight... in their large Grand Tourer... so that it is outperformed by a lighter and more powerful car on track.
Autobild is just being its usual self.
These idiots don't realize that the LC doesn't even compete in the same class of car. So if I compare a RCF vs a BMW 8-Series then it would win because it is faster, lighter and more performance oriented? They don't compete in the same class. Why don't you compare the LC vs the S-Class Coupe? The 8-Series? Or what about a flagship Audi coupe? Oh wait, they don't have one. Trash review. End of story.