TestDrive: Lexus GX550 Luxury Plus
Everyday Driver Car Debate
Everyday Driver
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I don't remember which number of Lexus SUV this is they make many many many now |
| 0:05.8 | back into the lineup comes this car the Lex is gX which is below the Alex the Lex is stay with me stay with is stay with me stay with me. The Alex is the land |
| 0:16.1 | cruiser done for Lexis. The GX has traditionally been the forerunner done for Lexis, but the last gin was so embraced by the off-roading |
| 0:27.1 | community as a second life for the car. |
| 0:29.7 | Nobody bought it that way for the first life, but they bought it for the second life and they turn them into off-roters that now |
| 0:35.1 | Toyota Lexis has decided that this version of the GX should just lean into its |
| 0:39.7 | off-road heritage and now I think we we wound up with a very confused vehicle. |
| 0:45.0 | Well I think you're right. |
| 0:47.0 | This is the new GX 550 luxury plus. |
| 0:51.0 | Yeah, it is still a pre-production vehicle, but we're very close and you must be shopping |
| 0:55.4 | if you're watching this video. So thank you for watching. We really appreciate it. |
| 0:59.0 | There are now six different trim levels for the GX. You get the premium and premium plus. You get the luxury and the |
| 1:05.6 | luxury plus. And for the first time ever, the over trail and the over trail plus. |
| 1:11.6 | Yes. You might be looking for great towing capacity with a decent amount of interior |
| 1:15.8 | space in addition to great off-road capability which this does deliver. Yes. But we are not in the over trail version and I look forward to that. |
| 1:25.1 | Yes. That is where this shines and you're right everybody decided that's where the |
| 1:30.8 | GX shines and we'll make it an off-road or do the aftermarket thing and they're awesome and this will keep that going. |
| 1:37.6 | It's really good at it. |
| 1:39.1 | But I don't think the luxury or luxury plus version of this should exist. I think this is irrelevant. |
| 1:45.4 | Even the premium, I mean if we're going to get Alexis, get something luxury, but then you're into luxury. |
| 1:50.4 | But what you bought it for was Toyota's GAF platform, introducing... to luxury |
| 1:53.4 | to the to the GAF platform introduced on the Alex 600 |
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