The Yaris Cross' fancy cousin? 2024 Lexus LBX shaping up to be new entry-model for Toyota's luxury brand

Lexus this week teased a brand new model, seemingly set to create a new entry-point to its line-up below the UX small SUV.

Expected to be related to the Toyota Yaris Cross, the LBX is thought to be one of three new models from Lexus to land in showrooms in Australia in the next year-and-a-half, with the Toyota Prado-related GX and LM luxury people mover.

After teaser images from Lexus gave us a glimpse of the LBX’s headlights, part of its front, as well as its tail-lights, digital artists at Kolesa.ru have created a look at what they suspect the compact crossover could look like.

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A new front-end with a modernised version of the decade-old 'spindle' grille feature on the render, with some Yaris Cross-like two-tone paint in a more metallic colour befitting a Lexus, while the head- and tail-lights are true to the teasers.

Since Lexus hasn’t confirmed anything about the LBX beyond its teaser images, along with an early June reveal, the closest information in terms of what to expect from the LBX comes from the Toyota Yaris Cross.

Digital artists at Kolesa.ru have created a look at what they suspect the compact crossover could look like. (Image: Kolesa.ru)

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Teaser images from Lexus gave us a glimpse of the LBX’s headlights, part of its front and tail-lights.

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Built on Toyota’s TNGA-B platform, the Yaris Cross is offered with a petrol-electric hybrid powertrain that makes 85kW/141Nm, and could become - in a more powerful tune perhaps - the drivetrain for the LBX.

If Lexus decides to offer non-hybrid versions of the LBX, Toyota’s 1.5-litre petrol three-cylinder engine is also at its disposal, without electrification, though again perhaps with more than the 88kW/145Nm it outputs in the Yaris Cross.

In just a couple of weeks, Lexus will reveal more information about the LBX and show off its design during an event in Milan, so stay tuned until then.