Lexus has a two-for-one special this week, as the company plans to unveil a pair of new SUVs. One is a family-oriented 3-row SUV built to stay mainly on the road called the Lexus TX. It’s brand new to the lineup. The other is a long-awaited redesign of the rugged, luxurious GX off-roader.
We’ll get full details on the pair at an event in Texas tomorrow. But the company has spent weeks releasing teaser photos of the couple and sent one final shot of each to your table as an amuse bouche on the house.
The Curvy One: 2024 Lexus TX
The 2024 Lexus TX is a family hauler with three rows of seating. It’s likely to share its design ethos with a vehicle already well-known to Lexus Loyalists.
The Lexus RX has been America’s best-selling luxury vehicle for a decade. Lexus isn’t calling the TX a stretched RX, but that’s the basic idea. Previous teasers have shown an enlarged cargo area looking squared off compared to the RX’s angles and a 6-seater cabin with a pair of captain’s chairs for a second row and a compact, 2-seater third row.
This new shot gives us a glimpse of the front, though just a glimpse. An inverted L-shaped daytime running light sits atop a reasonably typical headlamp. The grille looks similar in shape to the current RX’s giant maw but lined with horizontal slats rather than that car’s grid of diamonds.
We’ll know more tomorrow. But, if this is essentially a 3-row RX, expect to see many of them on the road in a few years.
The Boxy One: 2024 Lexus GX
The other new Lexus will be a rarer site. The current GX competes in a more specialized space – the luxurious off-roader market peopled by Land Rover SUVs and the Mercedes G-Class. The GX has been without a major update longer than almost any design currently for sale. But a significant update is coming.
Lexus has previously shown off only tight glimpses of the new 2024 GX, like a license-plate frame dripping with mud, a squared-off headlight, and a rear-angle shot showing a tall greenhouse with, likely, excellent visibility.
This last shot gives us more to work with. It shows the car splashing through a puddle, obscuring the wheels and lower body. But we can see a black floating roof design, a fence-like take on the spindle grille, and a boxy ethos that should make the new GX the most distinctive SUV on the Lexus lot.
Large upright mirrors look like something off a truck designed to tow.
The drivetrain is a bigger question with the new GX. We wouldn’t be surprised to see the Hybrid MAX setup from the Toyota Tundra as an option.
As you read this, our Andy Bornhop is getting on a plane to Texas to find out. He’ll bring an update tomorrow.
