---
title: "Lexus Kills LC Hybrid After Just 8 Sales Last Year"
date: "2025-07-21"
modified: "2025-07-21"
authors:
  - name: "Jerry Perez"
    job_title: "Deputy Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/jerry-perez"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/lexus-kills-lc-hybrid-after-just-8-sales-last-year"
categories:
  - "Lexus News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "Coupe"
  - "lc 500"
  - "Lexus"
  - "luxury"
---

# Lexus Kills LC Hybrid After Just 8 Sales Last Year

![Lexus LC500h](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Lexus-LC500h-002.jpg>)
*\<em\>Lexus\</em\>*

Any way you look at it, the [Lexus](<https://www.thedrive.com/category/lexus-news>) [LC 500](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/please-no-the-lexus-lc500-and-its-v8-might-not-have-much-time-left>) is one of the world's [greatest cars](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/40871/2021-lexus-lc-500-review-forget-owning-a-home-get-one-of-these>). I've been lucky to drive several since it came out in 2018, and each time I got behind the wheel of the V8 model, I [loved it more than the last](<https://www.thedrive.com/car-reviews/2024-lexus-lc-500-convertible-review>). The hybrid V6, though? No thanks.

Other people seem to agree, as a Lexus spokesperson confirmed to *The Drive* that the brand only sold eight of them last year. Maybe that's why it's getting the ax.

When Lexus announced the 2026 updates for the LC 500 last week, it quietly omitted the hybrid V6 model from the press releases, spec sheets, etc. A Lexus spokesperson confirmed to *The Drive* that only the V8 model will be offered in the States next year. The hybrid will remain available in some markets, but the U.S. isn't one of them.

The fact that they sold so few is probably all the reason Lexus bosses needed to sunset the car. Normally I'd show some remorse over a stylish coupe departing our shores, but in this case, nope. Goodbye and good riddance.

![Lexus LC 500h badge](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2021-Lexus-LC-500h-016.jpg>)
**Lexus**

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2023_Lexus_LC500h_017.jpg>)

It's not often that something like this happens, where we actually *keep* the good car and say goodbye to the bad car. Imagine if an automaker killed the automatic and kept the manual instead of the other way around?

The 3.5-liter V6 hybrid was slow, clunky, and sounded bad, while the 5.0-liter V8 model has been a future collectible since its debut. Sometimes people sleep on good cars and that's why they get discontinued, but this time, justice has been served.

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## Author
Jerry is responsible for upholding The Drive's ethos as an audience-first, enthusiast-driven car blog that serves up industry-leading news, reviews, culture, and motorsport coverage. Overseeing a staff of writers and editors from his home base in Indianapolis, he helps curate the site's daily rundown, as well as its medium- and long-term content strategies. Jerry joined The Drive in 2018 as a writer and worked as news editor and managing editor before becoming the deputy in 2023. As a lifelong car enthusiast and racing fan, Jerry believes that all cars are cool, but the people behind the machines are even cooler. This belief often gives The Drive a slightly different focus from most other car sites, where we explore the humanity behind the machines. When he's not obsessing over the day's biggest stories or hanging out at a race track, Jerry can be found behind the wheel of a car, most likely sharing a laugh with his teenage son or daughter.

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