All-new Lexus LBX pint-size SUV rendered
First digital renders preview a much more elegant and sophisticated light SUV from Toyota’s luxury brandThe 2023 Lexus LBX is less than two weeks away from its global reveal and, in the spirit of educated guesses, the upcoming light-sized luxury SUV has been rendered ahead of its big day by Kolesa.ru.
Based on the Toyota Yaris Cross and to be positioned below the Lexus UX small SUV, the LBX will become the premium Japanese brand’s smallest and (almost certainly) most affordable model available when it arrives in Australia next year, as the premium Japanese brand looks to expand its portfolio by entering new segments to broaden its customer demographic.
Kolesa.ru has used this week’s official teaser as the basis for its front and rear three-quarter renders, splicing the previewed design features with the body of the Yaris Cross and filling in the gaps with a few Lexus RX design cues.
The matching hero copper body colour certainly yields similarities between the smallest and biggest car-based (monocoque) Lexus SUV models, alongside round wheel-arches, an integrated mesh grille and angular headlights, but the rendered LBX still honours its humble underpinnings, especially at the rear.
We haven’t seen much of the LBX’s rear-end, besides the teased full-width rear lighting signature, which led Kolesa.ru to assume the tailgate will be a similar shape to that of the Yaris Cross, with its definitive contour being accentuated by the brake light strip.
High-end Yaris Cross variants feature a black floating roof for extra contrast and that feature has been built on in the renders. The LBX shown here sports a full two-tone black roof, which to our eye at least injects extra elegance and compensates for some of the contrast lost by the reduced but smarter-looking body cladding.
A matching set of two-tone alloys fill the wheel-arches nicely and are complemented at both ends by some subtle silver chrome trim.
Due to make its public debut on June 5, the Lexus LBX will be one of three all-new Lexus models released in Australia by the end of next year, alongside the Lexus LM people-mover and Lexus GX off-road SUV.
Digital images: Kolesa.ru
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