Lexus showed this production-ready prototype of the LC convertible at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in the U.K.

The new convertible is expected to have the LC500 coupe's 471-hp V-8.

More details will be added as they become available.

When Lexus showed its LC convertible concept at this January’s Detroit auto show, it severely revised down our expectations of what a concept car could be. It was really just the already known, already loved LC coupe, shorn of roof. And though the LC's form is still lingeringly wild, the basic shape has been on the road for a good two years now, and a folding top does not a concept car make.

So when we saw the actual production version of the LC convertible at this weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed in England, we witnessed that rarest of things: a productionized version of a conceptized production car.

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Lexus was stingy with official details—an obfuscation as unnecessary, to our minds, as the camouflage on the Goodwood car. There is no hard launch date or pricing yet. Chief engineer Koji Sato said only that it will be available with V-8 and hybrid powerplants in states of tune similar to or improved over the coupe's; that, unlike all previous Lexus convertibles, it will have a soft top as opposed to a folding hard top; and that they'll try to keep the weight gain—from the roof assembly and the added structural stiffening—down to around 175 pounds. He also said they intend to do their best to keep trunk space the same, at a meager 5.0 cubic feet. So, remarkably little has been lost in the conversion. That's the upside of pulling your concept car right off the production line.

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