LEUXS LC500 Convertible & UX300e: The Big Gay Agony and Ecstasy.


Normally, we collect a car, drive it for a week, to a film, and write up a story but the LC 500 convertible and UX 300e were different kettles of fish.

The luscious LC500 Convertible is a sledgehammer in a silk skirt, and a contract-killer in a dinner suit, and above all, the most fun you will ever have standing up. You know this is coming right?

But, it drinks like a drag queen and still has the god-awful LEXUS touch-pad control for the audio system. Did it matter? No.

We paraded up and down Oxford St like gays on a mission.

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ABOVE: 2022 LEXUS LC500 Convertible, 2022 Lexus UX300e

Although the heavens had opened, and flood waters playfully surrounded Sydney, we managed every fleeting moment with the roof down. You feel like a 50’s film goddess in this peacock of a car, that it is showy and bold, and very loud. With the roof up, the 4-layer canvas soft top makes the cabin a Zen oasis. It all changes once you stab the starter, stick the shifter into Drive, and sink the loafer into the Axminster. The V8 is pure filth, in the nicest possible way. At full pelt, it transmits its throbbing love deep into your inner sanctum.

LC500 remains one of our top 10 gay cars.

It is perfect for the man who has everything, and whose husband’s hand is always firmly on the big, thick, tiller. Like Chris Hemsworth, LEXUS LC500 Convertible is something every gay man should aim to be in before he dies.

The UX300e is right purty y’all.

She is a cheeky little thing, just the right size to slip into tight spaces. LEXUS shoved a couple of batteries up in there, and claim an electric 360km range. Hunny, I’m here to tell you it ain’t nothing like it. A quick trip to Pie in the Sky on Sydney’s chowed down on half the range, which showed 300km when full. 360, my arse.

We are right at the beginning of our hot date, so with 150km left, I searched hither and yon for a place to plug in.

OMG LEXUS! This puppy has a 50kw charge rate. I mean, WTAF! It going to take 80 minutes to fill up, and as Sweet Brown says, “Ain’t nobody got time for that.”

“Use the Chargefox or LEXUS app,” they said. “Find a charger with ease,” they said. None of the charger around this dump fit, except for one, and it’s flat busted.

I was incandescent to find the 2 onboard charge port fitted none of the outlets that were accessible between rants. The 50kw Chargefox at Zetland is broken, just as the 350kw ones are fixed, after being out of order for over 6 months. Guess what, the UX300e can’t use the latter.  The next nearest one is ages away, and the only other prospects are even slower. I came home madder than Pauline Hanson at a Pride Parade. Gay boys do not wait, ever.

What for our full review, hopefully I’ll have calmed down by then!

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Written by Alan Zurvas

Alan Zurvas is the founder and editor of Gay Car Boys, Australia's leading LGBTQI+ automotive publication. Before launching GCB in 2008, Alan's automotive writing was published in SameSame.com.au and the Star Observer. With over 16 years of hands-on car reviewing experience, Alan brings an honest, irreverent voice to every review — championing value and innovation over brand loyalty.


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