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2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail + 4WD. Photo Jill Weinlein
The caller mean to large-size 2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail + 4WD is an eye-catcher, with its squared-off assemblage lines, stylish headlights and precocious crushed clearance.
While driving an ‘Earth’ colour exemplary to the Lexus 2024 US Open of Surfing successful Huntington Beach, a motorcyclist pulled up beside maine and gave maine a thumbs up. He looked implicit and shouted, ‘I emotion your car.’ I laughed and said "I bash too!"
2024 Lexus GX 550 Overtrail + 4WD
This luxury SUV is arsenic bully arsenic the 2024 Land Rover Defender and 2024 Ford Bronco, but its adjacent much amusive to drive. It offers a cooler container successful the mediate of the operator and rider spot to support your water, sodas and snacks acold for a roadworthy trip.
Can you ideate putting market items successful this container connected a blistery time for the thrust home? What astir filling it with foodstuff boxes oregon drinks for the shot squad aft a child's diversion signifier oregon game? It is besides a superb diagnostic for a tailgate enactment to support items cool, earlier going into a game.
Sitting up high, I utilized the illuminated doorway sill and interior drawback grip to get into the driver’s spot easily. A Drive Mode tin beryllium selected to Economy, Normal, Sport S, Sport S+, and Custom for the benignant of driving mode you prefer.
Interior of the 2024 Lexus GX 550. Photo Jill Weinlein
Interior features that I admit are the NuLuxe trimmed with suede seats successful brushed achromatic and olive colors. The 10-way operator and 8-way rider ventilated powerfulness beforehand driver's spot kept maine chill portion I drove the household to the formation successful 100 grade So Cal summertime weather.
My favourite diagnostic is adaptive cruise control. I conscionable propulsion a button, acceptable a velocity and beryllium backmost with my hands connected the heated leather-trimmed steering wheel. It besides offers powerfulness tilt and telescoping capabilities, for a comfy position.
Adaptive all-speed dynamic radar cruise power has curve velocity management, lane departure alert with steering assist. It keeps the car astatine a harmless car magnitude region from the conveyance successful front, and accelerates and brakes depending connected the driving postulation and conditions. When I doubted the Lexus GX 550 would brake successful time, I would assist, yet the conveyance was ever alert and stopped conscionable arsenic I pressed connected the brake.
With a propulsion of the + button, the conveyance would accelerate to drawback up with postulation speed. This conveyance seemed to cognize what was up earlier my eyes registered to my brain. This information assistance successful driving allows 1 to unbend and not beryllium arsenic stressed portion enjoying the ride.
The Intuitive Parking Assist has car braking and rear pedestrian detection. There is besides roadworthy motion assistance and lane tracing.
Another information diagnostic I appreciated is the vehicle's visibility with other tall, vertical broadside mirrors.
Interior of the 2024 Lexus GX 550. Photo Jill Weinlein
The 2nd enactment of the Lexus GX 550 Overtrail + 4WD is good planned retired with manual prima shades that tin beryllium pulled up and secured, to shield passengers' eyes from incoming prima rays. Even though I had lone 2 rows, a 3rd enactment tin beryllium ordered to accommodate 7 passengers, alternatively of 5 passengers.
The rear seats besides person aggregate instrumentality chargers and the mediate enactment tin besides beryllium ordered with 2 Captain chairs. This is perfect for children and teenagers who request to complaint their ain devices and don't privation anyone touching them connected car trips.
Lexus GX 550 Overtrail + 4WD
This beauteous mid-size SUV has the capableness to tow up to 8,000 pounds. For off-road driving, the conveyance has an physics Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (E-KDSS). Not lone does it person an electronically controlled locking rear differential, but crawl control, downhill assistance control, hill-start assistance control, and multi-terrain selection.
Best of each erstwhile driving successful the evening, the intelligent headlamps automatically power to precocious beams erstwhile nary different conveyance is detected. If a car approaches, the headlamps volition power to little beams for oncoming traffic.
The manufacturer's estimated substance depletion is 15 MPG, and 21 connected the highway. Combined the estimation is 17 MPG.
The basal exemplary starts astatine astir $65,000. Fully equipped the MSRP is astir $80,000. To trial thrust one, sojourn your nearest Lexus.
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