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I stopped by my local dealer today to look at some new 2019's. Saw an Atomic Silver Luxury ES 350 that came from Japan. Had the final assembly plant in Japan and the VIN started with a "J". The salesman explained that some ES 350's are still being imported from Japan. I was under the impression that all 350's were being built in Kentucky. Not so.
The ES 300's are all built in Japan. For those sold on Lexus cars (ES 350's) still being built in Japan, now's your chance...

lesz

In the past couple of years since the Kentucky plant started to build the ES350, some ES350s have still come from Japan. Typically, the cars that have come from Japan have been configurations that the Kentucky plant was not, at the time, set up to build. For example, the Kentucky plant has built UL ES350s only during a small fraction of the time. When the Kentucky plant has not been building the ES350 with the UL package, the UL cars that the dealers have gotten have come from Japan.

Toys4RJill

I think the ES hybrid is imported from Japan.

Mike728

Yes, 100% of them.