The Lexus LBX receives minor updates and attentive features because it keeps its prices for 2025

Since 2023, Lexus has had the LBX in its range, a compact with a conventional hybrid powertrain designed mainly for getting around urban environments as if it were in its element. A vehicle that, incidentally, we had the chance to test at the start of this year, and it pleasantly surprised us because it delivers everything it promises: a premium compact where every last detail has been carefully considered.

After almost two years on the market, the Lexus LBX is preparing to receive several changes which, although it is most logical to assume they would involve design updates, are in fact aimed at making it more premium, providing greater comfort for all occupants of the LBX and, while doing so, justifying every euro spent on this vehicle. Prices, incidentally, hold a surprise, and a positive one, despite the improvements made.

As we have already verified, the Lexus LBX is a vehicle with excellent ride comfort, and in this regard Lexus engineers have sought to improve it further, giving it even greater comfort while also managing to reduce the vibrations arising from driving. This is undoubtedly relevant when getting around the city, which is its natural habitat. Furthermore, just like one of the Lexus bigger siblings, the brand has managed to make its cabin even more impervious.

To achieve this, firstly, the design and material architecture of the lower suspension arm at the front has been optimised, which results in greater torsional and compressive rigidity, reducing longitudinal rebound of the front axle and cutting the transmission of rolling noise into the cabin. Work has also been done on the length of all the dampers, since this increases operating pressure and optimises compression force, absorbing road irregularities more smoothly and suppressing vibrations and rebound from sudden suspension rises and drops.

Secondly, despite all the elements already included to minimise noise and vibration inside the cabin, Lexus engineers have gone a step further to insulate as much as possible another area through which noise seeps in: the wheel arches. New covering materials with sound-absorbing and insulating properties have been used in these areas, materials that have also been applied elsewhere, such as the front pillars, the bulkhead separating the cabin from the engine bay, and the glovebox area.

Lexus also has technological improvements ready for the LBX, affecting in particular the Head-Up Display and smartphone compatibility. Thus, LBX models equipped with Head-Up Display will gain a larger field of view, the system’s dimensions increasing to 260 mm wide and 74 mm high. Finally, users of Android smartphones have reason to celebrate, as they will also be able to connect wirelessly, as was previously possible only with Apple CarPlay.

Best of all, despite these improvements aimed at greater comfort and quality, prices for the Lexus LBX will not be affected. As the brand has announced, they will continue to start from 33,900 euros, and the base prices of each of its trim levels remain the same. Production of the new LBX range will begin next June.