Jalopnik’s Crack Egyptologist Uncovers Mysterious LC 500 Detail

By adpock - January 13, 2016

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There’s much to glean from Jalopnik writer Jason “Torchlopnik” Torchinsky’s latest masterpiece of investigative journalism, but about the most interesting fact is that he is a budding Egyptologist, having spent “several” semesters attending Egyptology classes while pursuing his Art History degree. A degree which he finally gets to use, thanks to the LC 500.

As you better know already, Lexus triumphantly debuted the LC 500 this week at the Detroit auto show. What you probably don’t know is that while the car represents the very pinnacle of Japanese design (and auto design for that matter), it may also employ some Egyptian styling cues.

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According to Torchlopnik:

“Lexus has turned their headlights into a pair of wedjat eyes. You probably know them as the Eye of Horus, which you may have seen carved into a sandstone relief containing the offering formula, or perhaps painted on the plaster coating of a sarcophagus, or maybe even on a young woman’s lower back. It doesn’t matter where you saw it before. What matters is where you see it now, in the headlight design of the Lexus LC 500.”

From here, Torch very hilariously gets to the point where he invites you to gaze into the headlights of the LC 500 at your own risk, for fear that Set, the god of chaos, will ruin everything.

And though his argument is persuasive, I for one will still dare to stare, because I invite chaos as a necessary part of the earth turning. And those headlamps are just too dead sexy not to stare.