A nearly new Lexus LX asks QAR 135,000 more than a Land Cruiser VXR in Qatar. Past ten years old, the gap is about QAR 11,000.

The Lexus LX has always been the Land Cruiser in a better suit. The current LX 600, launched in 2021, uses the same platform and the same turbocharged 3.5-litre V6 as the Land Cruiser 300, according to launch coverage from Cars.co.za and Jalopnik. In our listings, every 2016 to 2021 LX that states its engine is a V8, and so is every Land Cruiser VXR of those years. Same chassis family, same engine family, different badge, very different price.

That makes it one of the cleanest questions a used-car buyer in Qatar can ask: what is the badge worth, and does it last? There are 402 LXs live on BuMotar today and 1,617 Land Cruisers, which is enough to answer it.

How we counted

Every figure comes from live BuMotar listings on 3 November 2026. We compared the LX, all trims except one diesel LX 450, with the Land Cruiser VXR and VXR Twin Turbo, the trim that matches the LX on equipment. The cheaper GXR would make the Lexus look more expensive than it is, so we left it out. That leaves 352 LXs and 208 VXRs, 560 cars from 2012 to 2026. Prices are medians of asking prices, grouped into bands of model years so each group has enough cars to mean something.

The gap, by age

• 2025 and 2026 — LX QAR 489,000 (58 cars, median 6,950 km). VXR QAR 354,000 (26 cars, 8,000 km). The Lexus asks QAR 135,000 more, 38%.
• 2022 to 2024 — LX QAR 395,000 (83 cars, 64,000 km). VXR QAR 283,500 (56 cars, 64,810 km). QAR 111,500 more, 39%.
• 2019 to 2021 — LX QAR 249,000 (59 cars, 139,000 km). VXR QAR 169,000 (50 cars, 169,500 km). QAR 80,000 more, 47% — but the LXs have done 30,000 km less, which flatters them.
• 2016 to 2018 — LX QAR 174,500 (62 cars, 210,500 km). VXR QAR 137,000 (38 cars, 235,000 km). QAR 37,500 more, 27%.
• 2012 to 2015 — LX QAR 95,000 (90 cars, 300,000 km). VXR QAR 78,500 (38 cars, 338,500 km). QAR 16,500 more, 21%.

One thing in that list is worth noticing on its own. From 2019 back, the LXs for sale have consistently done less distance than the Land Cruisers of the same age: 30,000 km less at five to seven years, 38,000 km less at eleven to fourteen. Whether that is because LX owners drive less, or because hard-worked Land Cruisers end up in the classifieds more often, the listings cannot tell us.

The gap at the same mileage

Because the LXs have lower odometers, the raw medians overstate the badge. So we compared cars of the same age and roughly the same distance. Between 150,000 and 250,000 km, where there are enough of both:

• 2019 to 2021 — LX QAR 227,000 (19 cars) against VXR QAR 168,000 (16 cars). QAR 59,000 more, 35%.
• 2016 to 2018 — LX QAR 176,000 (26 cars) against VXR QAR 139,500 (16 cars). QAR 36,500 more, 26%.
• 2012 to 2015 — LX QAR 112,000 (14 cars) against VXR QAR 101,500 (6 cars). QAR 10,500 more, 10%.

Above 250,000 km the pattern holds: QAR 44,000 at 2019 to 2021, QAR 22,500 at 2016 to 2018, QAR 11,000 at 2012 to 2015. The samples there are small — seven LXs at 2019 to 2021 — so read those as direction rather than precise figures.

At the same age and mileage, a 2012 to 2015 LX asks about QAR 11,000 more than a Land Cruiser VXR. New, the difference is QAR 135,000.

What this does and does not mean

It would be easy to read the list as one car's story — pay QAR 135,000 more today, get QAR 11,000 of it back in a decade. That is not quite what it shows. The young cars are LX 600s and Land Cruiser 300s; the older ones are LX 570s and Land Cruiser 200s, a different generation, and we cannot see from today's listings what the gap between those was when they were new. A snapshot of today's market is not a record of how any one car aged.

What we can compare like for like is the current generation over its first few years. A 2025 or 2026 LX asks QAR 489,000; a 2022 to 2024 one asks QAR 395,000, 19% less. The VXR goes from QAR 354,000 to QAR 283,500, 20% less. In percentage terms the two lose value at the same rate. In riyals the Lexus loses more — QAR 94,000 against QAR 70,500 — simply because there was more to lose.

And across both generations the direction is the same: the older the car, the smaller the share of its price the badge accounts for. By eight to ten years, at the same mileage, the Lexus asks about a quarter more. Past ten, about a tenth. At that age buyers are pricing a high-mileage V8 4x4, and the market treats the two much alike.

What to do with this

• If you are buying new or nearly new — Pay for the LX if you want the LX. In its first few years it holds its value as well, in percentage terms, as the Land Cruiser — but you are exposed to a bigger riyal loss, about QAR 23,500 more over the first two to three years on our figures.
• If you are buying used, eight years or older — This is where the Lexus is cheapest relative to the car it is built on. A 2016 to 2018 LX at 150,000 to 250,000 km asks about QAR 36,500 more than a VXR, and a 2012 to 2015 one about QAR 10,500 more. Budget the difference for parts: LX-specific trim, suspension and electronics are not Land Cruiser prices, and a ten-year-old luxury car spends money on exactly those.
• If you are selling an older LX — Price it against Land Cruiser VXRs of the same year and mileage, not against other LXs alone. That is what the buyer is doing, and on today's listings they expect to pay 10% to 26% more for the badge, not 40%.
• If you are holding — Nothing here says sell. If you own a young LX, it is depreciating at the same rate as a Land Cruiser. If you own an old one, the premium you paid has already mostly gone, and keeping it costs you nothing extra in resale.

What we do not know, and what would change the answer. These are asking prices, not sale prices, and if LXs or VXRs routinely sell further below their asking price than the other, every gap above is wrong by that amount. The odometer and trim are as the seller states them; we excluded GXRs and Land Cruisers with no trim written, and a VXR listed without its trim is not in our count. The cross-generation comparison is a snapshot, not a history of how one car aged. Some groups are small — six VXRs from 2012 to 2015 at 150,000 to 250,000 km — and a few new listings could move their medians by several thousand riyals. Running costs, which are where an old LX can give back its discount, are not in this data at all.

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