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Lexus VINs in the Gulf: LX, GX and the export layout

Lexus uses Toyota's export VIN scheme, and the models the Gulf buys most heavily are among the ones the American reference is weakest on.

Is a Lexus GCC spec?

The honest answer, before anything else on this page.

GCC specification is decided per vehicle, not per model. Two cars of the same model and the same year, built in the same factory in the same week, can go to different markets. So no page can tell you whether yours is a Gulf car, and this one does not try. What it can do is show you exactly what your own VIN encodes and where that stops.

How Lexus builds a VIN outside America

The scheme, and why a general decoder struggles with it.

Lexus VINs beginning JTH and JTJ follow the same modern Toyota layout: a model and grade descriptor at positions 4 to 8, read together with the WMI, and usually the filler digit 0 where a year code would sit.

There is a piece of history worth knowing here. Until August 2026 the decoder did not register JTH and JTJ as Lexus WMIs at all, which meant every Lexus row in the table was unreachable code, including the LX 450d that was only ever sold in this region. The rows had been written months earlier and had never once fired. That is the kind of failure a coverage page should record rather than quietly fix.

Position by position

What each character carries on this maker's cars.

4 to 8

Model and grade descriptor, read together with the WMI

The same five characters mean different cars under different WMIs. HT05J is a Land Cruiser 200 under JTM and a Land Cruiser 100 under JTE, so a lookup that ignores the WMI silently mislabels the generation.

A real check digit on modern Toyotas

Toyota computes a conforming mod-11 digit on export vehicles even though no regulator outside North America requires one. 195 of 197 sampled VINs validate, so a failure here is a genuine sign of a mistyped character. On the pre-2000s legacy scheme this position carries model data instead and cannot be validated.

Usually the filler 0, which is not a year

On the Land Cruiser 70, 200 and 300, Prado, Lexus LX and GX, Hilux Revo and most export Toyotas this position is the digit 0. It is not a member of the model-year alphabet at all, so the decoder returns no year rather than inventing one. Where a real year character appears, it is kept.

Plant

The plant tells you where a car was built. It does not tell you where it was sold, and the decoder never treats it as a market.

World manufacturer identifiers

The first three characters, and the entity behind each. Country is where the vehicle was built, which is not where it was sold.

WMI	Built by	Country of manufacture
JTH	Toyota Motor Corporation	Japan
JTJ	Toyota Motor Corporation	Japan

What this decoder covers, and what it does not

Coverage claims here trail capability. If it is not listed, it does not resolve.

LX 570, LX 500d and the Gulf-only LX 450d, GX 460 and GX 470, and the ES 250. The LX and GX pages carry the full descriptor tables.

The RX, NX and IS are not in the export table. A Gulf-market car from those lines resolves make and plant and no model.

Lexus models with their own page

3 code rows

Check a specific Lexus

The free GCC spec check reads a VIN and gives a verdict with a certainty score and the evidence behind it. The full VIN decoder returns every attribute the decode resolves, with the source of each one.

Common questions

Is the LX 450d a Gulf-only model?

The LX 450d, the diesel V8 version of the J200, was sold in this region and not in the United States, which is why no American filing describes it. That is a statement about which markets the model line was offered in, and it is not a statement about any individual car. Whether a particular LX in front of you was sold new in the Gulf is a per-vehicle question that only its own VIN and its conformity certificate can answer.