2026 Lexus ES facelift revealed – 2nd revision adds new lights, grille, 14-inch touchscreen; same engines

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After what seemed similar a barrage of leaks past week, the 2nd facelift for the seventh-generation Lexus ES has yet been revealed astatine Auto Guangzhou successful China. The Japanese enforcement sedan receives respective far-reaching aesthetic and exertion upgrades wrong and retired but retains the aforesaid engines arsenic before.

On the outside, the ES gains the “seamless” grille archetypal seen connected the RX, transitioning from assemblage colour to an unfastened grille done a bid of octagonal inserts. This is flanked by revised headlight internals with distinctive dual-L lighting signatures, on with subtly re-profiled aerial inlets. The double-L graphic is repeated successful the taillights that besides summation a full-width airy bar, portion the Lexus publication replaces the company’s “L” logo connected the footwear lid.

Inside, the centre stack is each new, freeing up abstraction for a touchscreen that has grown from 12.3 to 14 inches across. The Lexus Interface infotainment system, already introduced successful 2022 (and which jettisons the atrocious Remote Touch touchpad), present gains dual rotary dials for controlling the aerial conditioning and different functions, archetypal seen connected the second-gen NX.

This has necessitated the redesign of the centre aerial vents and the little fractional of the dashboard. The remainder of the compartment is unchanged prevention for a caller gearlever, which Lexus says is much successful tune with the tastes of younger Chinese customers.

As before, you inactive get features specified arsenic a seven-inch integer instrumentality display, walnut wood oregon bamboo decor, semi-aniline leather-wrapped powered seats with memory, heating and ventilation, rear spot heating, a panoramic solid sunroof, progressive sound cancellation, triple-zone Lexus Climate Concierge aerial con, Qi wireless charging and a 17-speaker Mark Levinson dependable system.

The Lexus Safety System suite of operator assists, including autonomous exigency braking, adaptive cruise power with halt and spell and curve velocity reduction, lane centring assist, evasive steering assist, unsighted spot monitoring and rear transverse postulation alert, besides travel modular – arsenic bash nary little than 10 airbags.

Mechanically, the ES remains identical to before. Two variants are offered successful China – the ES200 is powered by a 2.0 litre M20A-FKS naturally-aspirated and direct-injected four-cylinder motor that produces 173 PS astatine 6,600 rpm and 206 Nm of torque from 4,600 to 5,500 rpm. All that is sent to the beforehand wheels done a Direct Shift CVT.

The ES300h, meanwhile, receives a larger 2.5 litre A25B-FXS Atkinson-cycle mill churning retired 178 PS astatine 5,700 rpm and 221 Nm from 3,600 to 5,200 rpm. This is paired to a 120 PS/202 Nm brace of electrical motors and an eCVT for a full strategy output of 218 PS. So equipped, it gets from zero to 100 km/h 8.9 seconds connected its mode to a apical velocity of 209 km/h.