Lexus LBX

This is the catalogue record of the Lexus LBX, one of 72 models Lexus has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2023. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Lexus LBX properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2020s were the current era, in which battery-electric platforms, software-defined cars and China's rise as the world's largest producer are rewriting a century of industry order. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Tesla Tesla Cybertruck, the Nissan Nissan Z, the Kia Kia EV6 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Lexus LBX reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol Hybrid electric vehicle / hybrid: / 1490 cc Toyota Dynamic Force engine#M15A-FXE / M15A-FXE Straight-three engine / I3 / Petrol: / 1618 cc Toyota G; quoted output is 67 kW (M15A-FXE, petrol engine only); 100 kW (M15A-FXE, combined system output) / 206 – (G16E-GTS); kerb weight is recorded at 1280 –; drive goes through Continuously variable transmission / eCVT (hybrid models) / 6-speed Toyota E transmission#EA67F / EA67F Manual transmission / manual (Morizo RR) / 8-speed "GR-DAT" Automatic transm; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive (E-four/Morizo RR). Worked together, those figures give roughly 52 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Lexus story

Within Lexus's own catalogue the Lexus LBX sits alongside the Lexus ES (V20), the Lexus GS 450h (2012), the Lexus IS 200 (GXE10), the Lexus LS 400. The record names the sp = uk as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to class = Subcompact luxury crossover SUV (B). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Kanegasaki, Iwate (TMEJ).

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Lexus LBX was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.