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By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(September 29, 2024) The Lexus GX came into the world in 2002 as the brand's rugged off-road SUV — with body-on-frame credentials to back up the claim. The second generation, introduced way back in 2010, served through 2023 with styling and technology updates along the way. Finally Lexus has got around to a third generation, completely updating its mid-sized three-row luxury people mover.

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By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(July 28, 2024) Lexus is for the first time building a unibody three-row luxury SUV that should please families looking for a Lexus-like experience in a crossover that drives like a car and can carry up to seven people and their stuff. No climbing up into and falling out of — just sit down in a seat at the proper height and enjoy the drive. 

By Casey Williams
MyCarData



(November 12, 2023) Lexus took its own sweet time to introduce a proper electric vehicle.  While BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, Genesis, and even Cadillac were introducing EVs, Lexus continued to focus on the range and efficiency of hybrids.  That may yet turn out to be smart as EVs struggle to find a foothold, but Lexus has finally seen fit to give us an EV.  The 2023 RZ 450e crossover is high on Lexus style, but a little short on range.

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By Jim Meachen
Editor, MotorwayAmerica.com

(July 16, 2023) The compact Lexus NX crossover arrived in 2015 filling the segment vacated by the popular RX in the Lexus lineup. The RX was of compact size when it was introduced in 1998, but has deserted the segment through five iterations, growing into a mid-sized luxury SUV.

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By Jim Meachen
MotorwayAmerica.com Editor

(June 18, 2023) The luxury division of Toyota introduced a car-based sport utility — the RX300 — in March 1998 as a 1999 model. The RX 300 was promoted as the first vehicle to combine SUV versatility and all-road traction with the performance, agility and comfort of a luxury sedan. Crank up the way back machine to the spring of 1998 and I find myself driving the RX300 at a press event on mountain roads that unexpectedly became icy near the Greenbriar resort in West Virginia. The newly minted sure-footed AWD unibody SUV got me down safely after some white knuckle driving.

All-new RX high on luxury,
short on driving excitement

By Jim Prueter
MotorwayAmerica.com

(May 2, 2023) Back in 1998 Lexus introduced its first RX crossover utility vehicle in the United States just two years after Mercedes introduced their first-generation ML SUV. The RX met with immediate sales success climbing right to the top of the sales charts’ much to the surprise of the German auto maker who had a two-year head start. Lexus did a better job making the RX more luxury-like and less truck-like.