Joke about the new Lexus TX’s name all you want, but it’s no joke when it comes to what the three-row crossover is designed to do: haul people and their families in spacious luxury. Lexus offers the TX with three different engine options, and buyers wanting to ease into electrification can go for the TX … Read more
I’ve never been a modern Toyota Land Cruiser guy, and by extension the Lexus LX and GX have never really done it for me either. I’ve always understood the appeal, but personally I like my high-end SUVs to be less simple and rugged and more interesting and luxurious, plus the 13-year-old GX has been seriously … Read more
2024 Lexus TX550h+Image: Lexus Lexus finally has a proper family SUV in the form of the Lexus TX. The luxury brand used to sell a three-row RX L, but putting a third row in a crossover the size of an RX was a joke. The TX is a proper three-row SUV built for America by … Read more
2025 Lexus UX300h F SportImage: Lexus Lexus’s smallest crossover, the UX, might get ignored by some because it’s been a bit down on power since its introduction. While the brand made moves to remedy this by making the UX’s sole powertrain option a 181 horsepower hybrid setup for 2023, prior to that buyers could choose … Read more
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS has been holding automakers accountable for public safety since the ’90s, by putting new cars through more stringent and realistic crash tests than required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or NHTSA. Thanks in part to the work of the IIHS, new cars are safer than … Read more
SUV used to be a term reserved for body-on-frame, truck-based vehicles, until the crossover came along and turned everything on its head. Now some automakers claim that their subcompact front-wheel-drive hatchbacks are SUVs or crossovers, and we have unibody trucks like the Ford Maverick and Honda Ridgeline that further muddy things up. So, what really … Read more