The verdict: The all-new — and we mean that — 2024 Lexus GX 550 is a remarkable improvement over the longstanding prior generation
Versus the competition: The new GX is significantly more expensive than before, but we wouldn’t want to be Land Rover right about now. There isn’t much beyond the Defender that offers the same heady blend of luxury, refinement and off-road capability.
Goodness, Lexus. The bar for what we expected from a next-generation GX was so low, you didn’t have to go that hard with the 2024 Lexus GX 550. The first- and second-generation GX lumbered around our roads for a combined 21 model years, and based on their success, longevity and generational contiguity, we admit there was a small part of us that expected a heavy revision of a lovable dinosaur that nearly 32,000 U.S. customers purchased new in 2023.
Instead, we got what amounts to an entirely new GX packing a new platform, new engine, new interior — heck, new everything. It’s easier to say what hasn’t changed than what has, and as far as we can tell, that amounts to the “G” and “X” letters on the rear gate (which, we must add, is not the side-swinging barn door that’s become a bit of a signature of the breed, but a conventional upward-swinging liftgate). There’s a lot of ground to cover with Lexus’ newest three-row (but sometimes two-row!) SUV.
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