2016 Lexus LX 570 facelift leaked: very spindle-grilled!

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You’re apparently looking at the 2016 Lexus LX 570 facelift, leaked by Best Car magazine. The posher relative of the Toyota Land Cruiser (whose 2016 facelift was allegedly leaked partially only last week) gains a prominent spindle grille, attached to which are revised headlamps with LED DRLs.

The fog lamps sit within a sharp boomerang-shaped housing, and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to expect some changes at the back – perhaps a reshaped bumper and new tail lamp graphics, for instance.

This would actually be the third facelift for the third-gen J200 – it was first given a front bumper to mimic a spindle grille in 2010, before getting a proper spindle face in 2012, although the headlamps remained detached from the grille.

The 383 hp/546 Nm 5.7 litre V8, six-speed auto and 4WD with Torsen limited-slip diff are expected to soldier on, but since the Land Cruiser is going to get radar- and camera-based autonomous emergency braking, this one should get it too.

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Jonathan James Tan

While most dream of the future, Jonathan Tan dreams of the past, although he's never been there. Fantasises much too often about cruising down Treacher Road (Jalan Sultan Ismail) in a Triumph Stag that actually works, and hopes this stint here will snap him back to present reality.

 

Comments

  • tiffany on Jun 01, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    Welcome the Ninja King.

    also the Borneo King..

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    • alfadana on Jun 01, 2015 at 9:47 pm

      The Lexus spindle grille design now reach the point of dead-end of fuglyness. No longer an identity but pure fugliness in any angle. Exactly the same crap of Proton wau design. In fact anything wau design ends with failure. Just ask MAS.

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      • polstar on Jun 01, 2015 at 11:14 pm

        Why drag in p1 in here?
        At least newer p1 is not that ugly

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        • If this is P1 design, it would be one of the best design. Imagine how bad P1 is.

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          • Your imaginary is in denial mode
            p1 never design this ugly, only Toyota can, lol

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      • vir3g on Jun 01, 2015 at 11:22 pm

        Wau design? I dun think its ugly

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  • This is one fugly dung.

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  • I’m not really into toyota/lexus, but this is sexy.

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  • shawal on Jun 01, 2015 at 5:46 pm

    so they bolted on a york aircond compressor….
    must be really cold inside…

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  • What happened to those gigantic overly-designed grills lately?

    Audi started it moderately… and there goes the grillnomena..

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  • Sam Loo (ori1) on Jun 01, 2015 at 8:46 pm

    This is the king of SUV that rules the desserts of Dubai and jungles of Borneo.

    All the un-eveness on the roads is damped with the massive suspension system.

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    • the rich, they got money to choose this and that. try this and that..

      and the Dubai Rich and Borneo Rich..
      would settle with Ninja King by Lexus..

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  • dugongx on Jun 01, 2015 at 9:00 pm

    Fugly has a new name…

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  • KarTiN (Member) on Jun 01, 2015 at 10:04 pm

    Between this and its rival Infiniti QX80, I choose the baby whale Infiniti.

    I wish someone would import the current version of Nissan Patrol so we can truly enjoy mammoth SUV / 4X4 in Malaysia without only relying on the archaic Toyota Land Cruiser which is technically out of sorts compared to the Patrol.

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  • Kipas angin on Jun 01, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    Mcm grill rumah je

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  • Obviously (Member) on Jun 01, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    My eyes! They burn!

    But seriously, the spindle looks so forced here. Oh well, maybe it’ll grow on us………..or maybe not.

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  • Dont forget the smiling face by Mazda.

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