Lexus's New 1,600-Horsepower Flagship Is Not What You Think

From the eight-cylinderRC Fto the exotic V10-poweredLFA, Lexus has been known to make some powerful machinery. But its next one stands to be its most powerful yet.

Previewed in this latest teaser is the forthcoming Lexus LY 650. Motivating it is an 800-horsepower engine. Two of them, in fact, giving it a combined output of 1,600 hp. That's more than three times as much as the top-of-the-lineLC coupe. But as you might have guessed, this is no ordinary road car. In fact it's not a road car at all.

The LY 650 is a motor yacht. A rather large one, at that, measuring 65 and a half feet from bow to stern. That's about the length of fourES sedans, parked nose to tail. And with a beam of 18'8", you could (theoretically) park anLS sedanacross it sideways. It'll have three staterooms inside, three bathrooms, and what's sure to be a pretty big galley (maritime-speak for "kitchen").

生产容器的设计(πctured below) wasrevealed last September– stems from theLexus Sport Yacht Concept(at bottom) first shown a year and a half ago. And now the first example is under construction.