With its official debut at the New York and Beijing auto shows still more than a month away, the next Lexus ES has already been outed to the public. Pictures of an undisguised, apparently production-ready ES surfaced on a Chinese web site yesterday afternoon.

The automobile seen in China wears a plate that reveals it to be an ES250; we don’t anticipate to see that model here, however. Our mainstay likely will remain the ES350 with the same 3.5 liter V-6 making 268 hp and 248 lb-ft of torque found in the current automobile and the new Camry. We suspect Toyota also will offer the new ES with a hybrid powertrain, and a trademark application the company made last year suggests it could be called the ES300h. If this gas/electric version does blink into existence, the hybrid system will be borrowed lock, stock, and battery from the Camry hybrid.

Full info on the latest Lexus ES should be available within the next few weeks.

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