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2026 Lexus LX

Hybrid Gas

Standard Sport Utility Vehicle 4WD
2 EPA-rated configurations
Data refreshed 2026-10-26

Safety Signal

92 / 100 from the NHTSA recall record

RecallsNHTSA campaigns 1

Complaintsnone reporting a crash, fire or injury 1

Crash ratingnot rated by NHTSA —

Fuel economybest combined, EPA 20 mpg

Starting MSRP7 trims · manufacturer $108,550

2026 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016

The 2026 Lexus LX is sold in the U.S. as a hybrid and gas large SUV with 2 EPA-rated configurations. The most efficient version, the LX 700h, is EPA-rated at 20 mpg combined. NHTSA lists 1 recall campaign for this model year, which gives it a Safety Signal grade of A. Owners have filed 1 complaint, most often about the service brakes. Manufacturer pricing runs from $108,550 to $143,050 across 7 trims.

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Trims & pricing

Source: manufacturer press kitWhich trim should I buy? → Compare a trim →

Trim	Powertrain	Drive	MSRP	HP	Torque	MPG comb	Seats	Cargo (2nd row)	Wheels
Premium	Gas	AWD	$108,550	409 hp	479 lb-ft	19 mpg	7	46 cu-ft	20 in
Luxury	Gas	AWD	$117,550	409 hp	479 lb-ft	19 mpg	7	46 cu-ft	22 in
F SPORT Handling	Gas	AWD	$115,550	409 hp	479 lb-ft	19 mpg	7	46 cu-ft	22 in
Ultra Luxury	Hybrid	AWD	$143,050	457 hp	583 lb-ft	20 mpg	4	31.0 cu-ft	22 in
F SPORT Handling Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$117,285	457 hp	583 lb-ft	20 mpg	7	31.0 cu-ft	22 in
Luxury Hybrid	Hybrid	AWD	$121,550	457 hp	583 lb-ft	20 mpg	7	31.0 cu-ft	22 in
Overtrail	Hybrid	AWD	$119,550	457 hp	583 lb-ft	20 mpg	7	31.0 cu-ft	18 in

MSRP excludes destination. Open a trim for the complete spec sheet and standard/optional equipment. Have the car in front of you? Decode its VIN to see which of these trims it is and what it was priced at.

Specs & fuel economy

Source: EPA fueleconomy.gov

Configuration	Powertrain	Drive	Engine / motor	City	Hwy	Comb	Annual fuel*
LX 700h	Hybrid	AWD	3.4L 6-cyl turbo	19	22	20	$4,100
LX 600	Gas	AWD	3.4L 6-cyl turbo	17	22	19	$4,350

*EPA estimate at 15,000 miles/year at EPA reference fuel and electricity prices. fueleconomy.gov record ids: 50169, 50168.

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Recalls (1)

Source: NHTSA recall database

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Power Train

26LA01

4,374 vehicles 71% reported repaired built Nov 22, 2024 – Dec 8, 2025

Problem Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (Toyota) is recalling certain 2025-2026 Lexus LX600 vehicles. In the event of transmission solenoid failure, the communication may fail between the transmission electronic control unit (ECU) and the engine ECU, resulting in transmission damage. Risk A damaged transmission can cause a loss of drive power, increasing the risk of a crash. In addition, a damaged transmission can leak transmission fluid, increasing the risk of a fire. Fix Dealers will update the transmission ECU software, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed April 13, 2026. Owners may contact Toyota's customer service at 1-800-331-4331. Toyota's number for this recall is 26LA01.

Filed with NHTSADefect report PDF Owner letter PDF Remedy instructions PDF

NHTSA campaign 26V094000 reported Feb 18, 2026 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing the full filing, and every vehicle covered →

These are vehicle campaigns — the ones the automaker filed against this model. NHTSA also records equipment recalls, filed by a parts maker against a component (a tyre, a child seat, an aftermarket part), and those are not listed here or counted above. nhtsa.gov/recalls shows both for a VIN.

Whether any of this applies to one specific LX

A campaign covers a build range, not a model year, so two identical-looking cars from 2026 can differ. Both of these check a VIN against the manufacturer’s own list, free, in about ten seconds. Lexus publishes its own lookup because federal rule 49 CFR 573.15 requires it to, and to keep it current to within seven days.

NHTSA VIN check →Lexus’s own VIN lookup →

Hear about a recall before the letter does

The manufacturer’s letter is the last step of a recall: it has up to 60 days after filing to mail owners, at the address on the registration. We email you the day NHTSA posts a recall on the 2026 Lexus LX, with what to do next. Nothing else, ever — no newsletter, no marketing, one-click unsubscribe in every message.

Owner complaints

Source: NHTSA complaint database

1complaints filed

0 involved a crash · 0 a fire · 0 injuries · 0 deaths reported

2.7 per 10,000 built · Lexus reported 3,656 LX built (its Early Warning production report to NHTSA)

Filed per year: 2026: 1

Most-cited components

Service Brakes 1

In owners' own words

Filed with NHTSA by the people who own these cars, one per problem area. Quoted as written, with anything identifying removed.

The car has very jerky and non-linear stop. While braking it feels like the vehicle is slipping

Service Brakes Feb 27, 2026 NHTSA owner report · ODI 11721027

Complaint counts are raw owner reports to NHTSA, not verified defects, and scale with how many were sold. Use them to spot patterns, not to rank.

Crash ratings

Source: NHTSA NCAP

NHTSA has not published 5-Star crash ratings for this model year.

Service bulletins & campaigns

Source: NHTSA manufacturer communications

Communicationsfiled with NHTSA 47

Most recentmanufacturer date 2026-07-01

Kindsas classified by NHTSA 47 service bulletins

Most often about: Unknown Or Other, Service Brakes, Structure, Electrical System.

L-SB-0053-25 Rev2 Service bulletin
2026-07-01 · Service Brakes
Some 2022 – 2026 model year LX 600, 2024 – 2026 model year GX 550, and 2025 – 2026 model year LX 700h vehicles may exhibit a condition where the front brakes produce a squealing noise when driving forward or in reverse
L-SB-0009-25 Rev2 Service bulletin
2026-06-19 · Unknown Or Other
OBSOLETE NOTICE Month ##, 2026: This bulletin is now obsolete. Please see L-SB-0018-26
L-SB-0018-26 Service bulletin
2026-06-18 · Unknown Or Other
During the manufacturing process, tires are mounted on the vehicle as matched sets to help reduce conditions such as pulling or drifting. If the wheels are replaced or refinished before vehicle delivery, it is important that the tires remain on the vehicle in the same location and in the same direction of rotation.
L-SB-0017-26 Service bulletin
2026-06-18 · Unknown Or Other
A battery in a stored vehicle is subject to conditions that can reduce its performance and service life. These conditions include storage period, temperature, parasitic drain, and battery load. Because of these factors, battery inspection and maintenance are required in order to ensure proper operation and optimal battery life.
L-SB-0019-25 Rev2 Service bulletin
2026-06-18 · Unknown Or Other
OBSOLETE NOTICE June 18, 2026: This bulletin is now obsolete. Please see L-SB-0017-26.
L-SB-0011-25 Rev2 Service bulletin
2026-06-15 · Unknown Or Other
OBSOLETE NOTICE June 15, 2026: This bulletin is now obsolete. Please see L-SB-0016-26.
L-SB-0016-26 Service bulletin
2026-06-12 · Unknown Or Other
Long-term or off-site storage requires special care to maintain vehicle condition. The following guidelines should be performed to minimize vehicle component/part degradation due to extended vehicle storage conditions. Long-term storage can affect a vehicle’s systems and components. Anyproblems that are found should be corrected immediately.
L-SB-0053-25 Service bulletin
2026-02-21 · Service Brakes
Some 2022 – 2026 model year LX 600, 2024 – 2026 model year GX 550, and 2025 – 2026 model year LX 700h vehicles may exhibit a condition where the front brakes produce a squealing noise when driving forward or in reverse.

A service bulletin is the manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free — though a bulletin is often what a dealer works from when you describe a symptom, so quoting the document number can save a diagnosis. The count is every communication filed; the list shows the most recent, one entry per campaign, because a single campaign is usually filed as several documents on the same day. The summaries are NHTSA's; the full documents come from the manufacturer.

LX by model year

all years, side by side →

Year Safety Recalls Complaints

2026 this page A 1 1 20 mpg 2025 A 1 0 20 mpg 2024 C 4 3 19 mpg 2023 C 5 13 19 mpg 2022 D 6 5 19 mpg 2021 A 0 0 14 mpg 2020 A 0 1 14 mpg 2019 B 2 1 15 mpg 2018 B 2 4 15 mpg 2017 A 1 1 15 mpg 2016 A 1 2 15 mpg

Common questions about the 2026 LX

Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kits

How much does the 2026 Lexus LX cost?

Manufacturer pricing runs from $108,550 for the Premium AWD to $143,050 for the Ultra Luxury AWD, across 7 trims. Those are MSRPs from the manufacturer's own press material; they exclude destination, options, taxes and whatever the dealer adds. Every trim and price is listed above.

Does the 2026 Lexus LX have any recalls?

NHTSA has posted 1 recall campaign for the 2026 Lexus LX. The most serious on file is 26V094000, covering Power Train. Check your own VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls; a recall applies to specific build ranges, not every car.

How safe is the 2026 Lexus LX?

NHTSA has not published a crash-test rating for the 2026 Lexus LX yet. On the recall record WhichTrim grades it A (92/100), which measures open and severe recalls rather than crash protection.

What is the fuel economy of the 2026 Lexus LX?

Across the 2 EPA-rated configurations of the 2026 Lexus LX, the best EPA combined figure is 20 mpg. Figures are the EPA's own, per configuration, and every one is listed above.

What do owners complain about on the 2026 Lexus LX?

Owners have filed 1 complaint with NHTSA about the 2026 Lexus LX, most often about service brakes. Complaints are unverified owner reports, so treat the pattern as a signal and the individual report as an anecdote.

Are there service bulletins for the 2026 Lexus LX?

The manufacturer has filed 47 service bulletins and related communications with NHTSA for the 2026 Lexus LX, most often covering unknown or other, service brakes, structure. The most recent is dated 2026-07-01. A bulletin is not a recall: it is the repair procedure a manufacturer sends its dealers for a condition it knows about, and the work is not automatically paid for. It is still worth knowing — if the symptom matches, quoting the bulletin number at the service desk can save a diagnosis. The document numbers and summaries are listed above.

Which 2026 Lexus LX trim is the best value?

$34,500 separates the cheapest of the 7 trims from the most expensive, so the answer depends on which of the differences you would actually use. Every trim has its own page here with the manufacturer's full specification and equipment list, plus a short summary of exactly what it adds over the base trim — worth reading before a dealer frames the walk-up for you. The trim-by-trim ladder shows what every step up costs and what it makes standard.

What we hold, and what an empty row means

Paid vehicle-history reports will not tell you the difference between “nothing happened to this car” and “we never received that record” — both of the big two say as much in their own help pages. Most of what is on this page comes from complete federal registers, so we can tell you which is which, row by row.

Data	Held	Source	What it covers — or what empty means
Fuel economy & configurations	2 configurations	EPA certification records	Every configuration the EPA certified for sale, with its own test figures.
Emission certificates	none	EPA emission certificates	The EPA published no certificate we could match to a configuration on this page.
Recalls	1	NHTSA recall campaigns	A complete federal register: every campaign covering this model year, with severity and advisory flags.
Owner complaints	1	NHTSA complaint database	Also complete, but unverified: these are reports owners filed, not findings. Counts scale with how many were sold.
Crash ratings	none	NHTSA NCAP	NHTSA has not tested this model year. Cars are selected for testing, so untested is not unsafe.
Service bulletins	47	NHTSA manufacturer communications	Everything the manufacturer told its dealers about a defect or malfunction, short of a recall.
Investigations	none	NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation	No defect investigation has been opened.
Driver-assist crash reports	none	NHTSA Standing General Order 2021-01	No report has been filed. Only entities named in the order report, and only crashes they hear of — so this is also what an unequipped car, or a manufacturer without telematics, looks like.
Specifications filed with NHTSA	none	NHTSA vPIC, decoded from VIN patterns	We had no VIN pattern to decode for this model year, or the manufacturer filed nothing usable.
Trims, pricing & equipment	7 trims	Manufacturer press kit	Transcribed from the manufacturer's own press material, every value carrying the document it came from.

Rebuilt nightly; this page was generated 2026-10-26. Every figure above is traceable to the source named beside it, and the JSON for this page carries the same values with their identifiers.

Sources & method

Safety Signal starts every model-year at 100 and subtracts points per open NHTSA recall campaign by severity: critical 15 (fire risk, park-outside or do-not-drive advisories), high 8 (brakes, steering, airbags, loss of drive power, structure, battery), moderate 6, minor 3 (software, labels, lighting fixed by an update). The most serious recall counts in full and each further one counts 85% of the one before, because a vehicle sold in millions is recalled more often than a rare one without being more dangerous — and because a flat subtraction bottomed the scale out, scoring a vehicle with 22 recalls within a point of one with six. A ≥ 90, B ≥ 80, C ≥ 70, D ≥ 60, otherwise F. Read it as what it counts: recall campaigns on the federal record, weighted by severity. The damping reduces the sales bias by roughly 40% but does not remove it: like our complaint counts, this is not normalized by how many were sold, so a best-seller still scores somewhat worse than an obscure model with the same real risk. NHTSA crash ratings, do-not-drive and park-outside advisories, and the crash, fire, injury and death counts in owner complaints are reported separately on every page and never blended into the letter — a vehicle can hold five stars and a poor letter at once, and where that happens we say so rather than leave you to notice. Because the scale subtracts from a clean sheet, a model year too new to have been recalled, complained about or bulletined scores full marks on an empty record; we label those grades provisional rather than present them as earned.

EPA figures come from fueleconomy.gov vehicle records. Recalls, complaints, investigations and crash ratings come from NHTSA's public flat files, refreshed nightly. Trim-level specifications and pricing are transcribed from the manufacturer's official press kit; every value carries its source in the data file.

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