There is no Lexani Motorcars showroom lot, and there is no page of Lexani Motorcars stock to scroll through. That is not an oversight — it is the whole business model. Every vehicle the company builds is commissioned by a specific client, specified before the base van or SUV is even ordered, and built to that one order over a period of months.
Exotic Motors works with Lexani Motorcars on exactly that basis: special order. This page explains what the company builds, what a commission actually involves, what drives the cost, how long it takes, and how to start one through us.
Lexani Motorcars is a Southern California coachbuilder that has spent over a decade converting Mercedes-Benz Sprinters and full-size American SUVs into bespoke executive vehicles — mobile offices, private-aviation-style lounges and armored transport. It works on commission rather than inventory: you specify a build, it is constructed to that order, and lead times run in months rather than days. Lexani describes its clients as global, and names athletes and dignitaries among them. Exotic Motors handles Lexani Motorcars builds as special orders.
Lexani Motorcars does not build cars from scratch. It takes a factory platform and rebuilds the interior — and in the case of armored work, considerably more than the interior. The named packages below are the company’s own model designations.
| Platform | Named builds | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Mercedes-Benz Sprinter | Sky Captain, Ambassador, Madrid, Belleza, Viceroy, Grazia, Andalucia, Raffinato, The Imperial | Mobile executive office, touring lounge, VIP transport |
| Cadillac Escalade | Sky Captain, Viceroy, Langham Curve | Executive SUV, armored transport |
| GMC Yukon Denali XL | VIP Edition, The Viceroy | Executive SUV |
| Lincoln Navigator | Tycoon | Executive SUV |
| Toyota | Grantly | Land Cruiser and Sequoia conversions |
| Ford F-550 | G-77 Sky Master | Large-format luxury transport |
The common thread is space. Every one of these is a large platform, because the point of the exercise is what fits inside: full-height cabins with kitchenettes and bathrooms, airline-style writing tables, reclining VIP seating, 4K displays and conference-grade connectivity. A Lexani Motorcars Sprinter is closer in intent to a business jet cabin than to a van.
This is the first real decision, and it is decided by what the vehicle has to do rather than by taste. A Sprinter gives you standing height and a full-height cabin, which is what makes a restroom, a kitchenette and face-to-face seating possible. That is the difference between a comfortable car and a vehicle you can genuinely work in for eight hours. The cost is size: parking, garage clearance and a road presence that announces itself everywhere it goes.
A full-size SUV gives up all of that and buys discretion. It fits a normal garage and a valet queue, it drives like a car, and it does not draw a crowd. Because the donor’s architecture is fixed, an SUV conversion is about seating quality, partitions, screens and materials rather than reconfiguring the space — you are upgrading a cabin, not building a room.
If protection is part of the requirement, that usually settles it. Armored work concentrates on the SUV platforms, and the Escalade in particular, for reasons of structure, weight distribution and the fact that most clients who need it also want the vehicle to look ordinary.
Specification sheets tell you more about a coachbuilder than any brochure copy. Here are the two most recent Lexani Motorcars Sprinter programmes, as the company announced them.
Built on a 2026 Mercedes-Benz 2500 Sprinter 170 EXT and seating six. Two 8-way power captain’s chairs in Italian linen leather, two further 6-way captain’s seats and two rear-facing seats. A 50-inch Samsung QLED display sits behind an electronic privacy partition, with a Marantz 4K surround system and Dolby audio, Starlink Wi-Fi and Apple TV. There is a fully appointed private restroom and a chilled beverage compartment. The VIP chairs are heated, ventilated and massaging; the cabin gets a heavy-duty secondary air conditioning system, ceramic window tint, luxury suede walls, dark walnut accents and 18-inch custom Lexani Monoblock wheels.
The Raffinato’s headline is a proprietary privacy partition with a collision detection system, integrating a 50-inch 4K QLED display for entertainment, presentations and video conferencing. Seating runs to 16-way Sky Captain’s chairs with footrests up front, rear-facing VIP guest seats and a three-person rear bench, all in hand-selected Italian leather. The technology package includes Control4 home management, Marantz 4K surround, 5G and Starlink connectivity, Apple TV and an installed Mac. It also carries an LED starlight ceiling, electric privacy shades, 360-degree security cameras and a fridge-freezer.
Note what is being solved in both. The partition, the secondary air conditioning, the connectivity stack and the restroom are not decoration — they are what makes the vehicle usable as a working office for a full day. That is the actual product.
Lexani Motorcars also builds armored vehicles, most visibly armored Escalades, integrating ballistic protection into the same luxury interior treatment rather than delivering a stripped security vehicle. That combination is a large part of why the company describes its clientele as athletes and dignitaries rather than one or the other.
If armoring is the reason you are here, the specification conversation is a different one and it starts earlier. Protection level, glass thickness, run-flat systems, suspension and braking upgrades to carry the added mass, and the legal position in your jurisdiction all need settling before anything else is specified. Ask for the protection standard in writing and ask what suspension and brake work is included to compensate for the weight — an armored vehicle that has not been re-engineered underneath is a worse vehicle, not a safer one.
Lexani Motorcars does not publish prices, and any figure you see quoted elsewhere for a specific build should be treated with suspicion for the same reason a rental fleet list is unreliable — each commission is different. What can be said honestly is where the money goes.
The practical advice is the same as for any bespoke commission: settle the specification completely before work begins. Changes after the build starts are the single biggest cause of both cost overruns and delivery slippage, on any coachbuilt vehicle from any builder.
We sell cars, so weigh this accordingly — but a Lexani Motorcars build is a consumption purchase, not an investment, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you something.
The base vehicle follows its own depreciation curve regardless of what has been done inside it, and the conversion cost is largely not recoverable on resale — the second owner is buying somebody else’s specification, which is a much smaller market than the one for a standard vehicle. Highly personalised interiors narrow that market further. This is true of essentially all coachbuilt conversion work, not just this builder.
Where a commission genuinely pays is in use. If the vehicle replaces charter flights, functions as an office that recovers hours from a travel schedule, or serves a security requirement that a standard vehicle cannot, the arithmetic works on utility rather than resale. Those are the buyers Lexani Motorcars builds for, and they tend to keep the vehicles.
If you are weighing this against a conventional purchase, our breakdown of which exotic car values actually appreciate is the honest picture of the other side, and our cost-to-own analysis shows what running costs look like when you model them properly.
The Lexani name did not start with vehicle conversions. The brand built its reputation in custom automotive accessories first, and by the company’s own account launched the Motorcars division to carry that brand into custom luxury interiors. The lineage is still visible in the finished product — The Imperial rides on 18-inch custom Lexani Monoblock wheels, which is the accessory business showing up on its own conversion.
That matters more than brand trivia usually does. Coachbuilders come from somewhere, and where they come from shapes what they are good at. A firm with a wheel and accessory background approaches a conversion as a design and finish exercise. A firm from a commercial upfitting background approaches it as a systems exercise. Neither is wrong, but it is worth knowing which conversation you are walking into, and asking any builder the same question.
Commissioning is not the only route. Because conversion cost is poorly recovered on resale, a two or three-year-old build can represent a large discount on the equivalent new commission — and unlike a new order, you can sit in it before you commit. The trade is that you are buying somebody else’s specification, and that specification is now fixed.
If a used build is the direction you are leaning, tell us the specification you want and we will watch for it. A conversion in the right configuration is worth waiting for; the wrong one is a very expensive compromise that you cannot change without another commission.
Because these are special order, the process is a conversation rather than a checkout. In practice it runs like this:
Our family has been in the car business for more than a century, and commissioned vehicles have always been part of it — the coachbuilding tradition this sits in is older than the assembly line. If you want to start a Lexani Motorcars commission, we can run it with you.
Browse what we have in stock if a conventional vehicle is what you actually need, or list a car with us if you are freeing up budget for a build. New to this end of the market? Start with our first-time exotic car buyer’s guide. Our sister publication Exotic Car News covers coachbuilding and the wider market year-round.
No. Lexani Motorcars works on commission rather than inventory — each vehicle is specified by a client and then built to that order over a period of months. There is no stock to browse, on our site or anywhere else. Exotic Motors handles Lexani builds as special orders, which means the process starts with a specification conversation.
Bespoke interior conversions of large factory platforms: Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans and full-size SUVs including the Cadillac Escalade, GMC Yukon Denali XL, Lincoln Navigator, Chevrolet Suburban and Toyota Land Cruiser and Sequoia, plus Ford F-550 based builds. Named packages include the Sky Captain, Viceroy, Ambassador, Tycoon, Raffinato and The Imperial. The company also builds armored vehicles.
The company does not publish prices, because every commission differs. What is known is the structure: a new long-wheelbase high-roof Sprinter alone runs roughly $75,000 to $90,000 before any conversion work, and the interior build and electronics are the largest line items after that. Armoring is a separate order of magnitude. Get a written quote against a fixed specification.
Months rather than weeks. Specification and component ordering typically takes several weeks before build work begins, and the build itself runs on top of that. Changes made after work starts are the single biggest cause of delay on any coachbuilt vehicle, so lock the specification down before the build begins.
Treat it as a consumption purchase rather than an investment. The base vehicle depreciates on its own curve, and conversion cost is largely not recoverable on resale because the second owner is buying someone else’s specification. That is true of coachbuilt conversion work generally. The case for a commission rests on use — replacing charter travel, recovering working hours, or meeting a security requirement.
Yes. It integrates ballistic protection into the same luxury interior treatment rather than delivering a stripped security vehicle, with armored Cadillac Escalades among its best-known builds. If protection is the requirement, ask for the protection standard in writing and confirm what suspension and brake engineering is included to carry the additional weight.
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