C&D Quick Review: Lexus LX570
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C&D Quick Review: Lexus LX570
Really not all that informative. Just a rehash of stuff we already know.
VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, 4-wheel-drive, 8-passenger, 5-door wagon
ESTIMATED BASE PRICE: $70,000
ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 32-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection
Displacement: 346 cu in, 5663cc
Power (SAE net): 381 bhp @ 5600 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 401 lb-ft @ 3600 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 6-speed automatic
DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 112.2 in Length: 196.5 in Width: 77.6 in Height: 74.4 in
Curb weight: 5900 lb
PERFORMANCE (C/D EST):
Zero to 60 mph: 6.5 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 18.0 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 15.5 sec @ 90 mph
Top speed (governor limited): 107 mph
PROJECTED FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST):
EPA city driving: 13 mpg
EPA highway driving: 17 mpg
An off-road roughneck in a tux.
The Lexus version of Toyota’s world-wandering Land Cruiser SUV gets its first full makeover in a decade. The Lexus LX570 sprouts in early 2008 with a new body, frame, and engine, an opulent features list, and a predicted base price of $70,000, but it has the same objective: to be a luxury eight-seater capable of rolling over hill, over dale, and over the neighbor’s Prius—basically, over whatever separates upscale families from their upscale destinations.
Unlike Toyota’s pickups and lesser SUVs, which share common frames, the LX570 and the Land Cruiser ride on a single-purpose frame that is box-sectioned front to back and durability-tested to be the heaviest and toughest the automaker offers (it’s even hardier than the ’07 Tundra’s, says Toyota).
The suspension remains independent up front, with a live axle in the rear located by five links and shouldering the body with coil springs. In the LX570, which is slightly longer, taller, and wider than its predecessor, a new electrohydraulic suspension automatically lowers the body at highway speeds and can raise it for deep-water fording, slick-rock crawling, and other Lexus-owner activities. Electronic shock-damping control cuts body roll by a third as well as the squat and dive naturally engendered by a vehicle weighing almost 6000 pounds.
Amenities standard and optional include a power-sliding middle row, a Bluetooth connected navigation system, and a Mark Levinson stereo that will pipe XM satellite radio to your ears through 19 speakers.
The permanent four-wheel drive incorporates an electronically locking center differential and brake-based limited-slip traction assist. Toyota has developed “crawl control,” a low-speed, off-road cruise control. Up to 10 mph, the desired velocity is maintained by a system that closely monitors wheel speeds and works the throttle and brakes to ensure traction in ruts, sand, and polo-field horse poop.
A boat-yanking 401 pound-feet of torque stream from the four-cam, 32-valve, 381-hp, 5.7-liter i-Force V-8 shared with the Tundra. That’s 113 more horses and 73 more pound-feet of torque over the last 4.7-liter V-8. Towing capacity is a mighty 8500 pounds. A six-speed automatic should help reduce the fuel appetite, but the EPA mileage figures should remain in the low-to-mid teens.
The Lexus version of Toyota’s world-wandering Land Cruiser SUV gets its first full makeover in a decade. The Lexus LX570 sprouts in early 2008 with a new body, frame, and engine, an opulent features list, and a predicted base price of $70,000, but it has the same objective: to be a luxury eight-seater capable of rolling over hill, over dale, and over the neighbor’s Prius—basically, over whatever separates upscale families from their upscale destinations.
Unlike Toyota’s pickups and lesser SUVs, which share common frames, the LX570 and the Land Cruiser ride on a single-purpose frame that is box-sectioned front to back and durability-tested to be the heaviest and toughest the automaker offers (it’s even hardier than the ’07 Tundra’s, says Toyota).
The suspension remains independent up front, with a live axle in the rear located by five links and shouldering the body with coil springs. In the LX570, which is slightly longer, taller, and wider than its predecessor, a new electrohydraulic suspension automatically lowers the body at highway speeds and can raise it for deep-water fording, slick-rock crawling, and other Lexus-owner activities. Electronic shock-damping control cuts body roll by a third as well as the squat and dive naturally engendered by a vehicle weighing almost 6000 pounds.
Amenities standard and optional include a power-sliding middle row, a Bluetooth connected navigation system, and a Mark Levinson stereo that will pipe XM satellite radio to your ears through 19 speakers.
The permanent four-wheel drive incorporates an electronically locking center differential and brake-based limited-slip traction assist. Toyota has developed “crawl control,” a low-speed, off-road cruise control. Up to 10 mph, the desired velocity is maintained by a system that closely monitors wheel speeds and works the throttle and brakes to ensure traction in ruts, sand, and polo-field horse poop.
A boat-yanking 401 pound-feet of torque stream from the four-cam, 32-valve, 381-hp, 5.7-liter i-Force V-8 shared with the Tundra. That’s 113 more horses and 73 more pound-feet of torque over the last 4.7-liter V-8. Towing capacity is a mighty 8500 pounds. A six-speed automatic should help reduce the fuel appetite, but the EPA mileage figures should remain in the low-to-mid teens.
ESTIMATED BASE PRICE: $70,000
ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 32-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection
Displacement: 346 cu in, 5663cc
Power (SAE net): 381 bhp @ 5600 rpm
Torque (SAE net): 401 lb-ft @ 3600 rpm
TRANSMISSION: 6-speed automatic
DIMENSIONS:
Wheelbase: 112.2 in Length: 196.5 in Width: 77.6 in Height: 74.4 in
Curb weight: 5900 lb
PERFORMANCE (C/D EST):
Zero to 60 mph: 6.5 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 18.0 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 15.5 sec @ 90 mph
Top speed (governor limited): 107 mph
PROJECTED FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST):
EPA city driving: 13 mpg
EPA highway driving: 17 mpg
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I like the author's sense of humor
"...capable of rolling over hill, over dale, and over the neighbor’s Prius..."
"...can raise it for deep-water fording, slick-rock crawling, and other Lexus-owner activities."
"...to ensure traction in ruts, sand, and polo-field horse poop."
"...capable of rolling over hill, over dale, and over the neighbor’s Prius..."
"...can raise it for deep-water fording, slick-rock crawling, and other Lexus-owner activities."
"...to ensure traction in ruts, sand, and polo-field horse poop."
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polo-field horse poop , NO WAY .............
I will get the undercarriage dirty. The best I could do is to drive over my sprinkle system heads.
The LX570 is on my Christmas wish list , of course is a very short list.
I will get the undercarriage dirty. The best I could do is to drive over my sprinkle system heads.
The LX570 is on my Christmas wish list , of course is a very short list.
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The LX is going to cost more than any $70,000. I looked at a '08 LC and it stickered for $73,000 +. It is going to be interesting to see if there are people out there who will spend $70K + on a Toyota. I for one will not. I'm waiting very unpatiently for the LX to hit here in TX. Last word I recieved was hopefully in mid December.
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i think ill be the first one to get an all black one, and PIMP IT OUT lolno but really, it is a great looking suv and i want one, to bad i can't affor one lol, and the writer seems to have a good sense of humor, but im sorry i woudn't off road this thing, maybe just fun *** driving in the snow
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i saw one last night on the freeway; it had dealer plates or mfr plates, not sure which - it was late at night so i didn't see much other than wonder WHAT IS THAT?
the taillights are very nice at night. i think it looks better in person that it does in the photos, although the various curves and bumps are hard to get used to compared to the current LX which i love
it didn't look as large as i thought it would be, which is nice. but honestly the shape of it reminds me so much of a beefed up Highlander.
the taillights are very nice at night. i think it looks better in person that it does in the photos, although the various curves and bumps are hard to get used to compared to the current LX which i love
it didn't look as large as i thought it would be, which is nice. but honestly the shape of it reminds me so much of a beefed up Highlander.
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The LX is going to cost more than any $70,000. I looked at a '08 LC and it stickered for $73,000 +. It is going to be interesting to see if there are people out there who will spend $70K + on a Toyota. I for one will not. I'm waiting very unpatiently for the LX to hit here in TX. Last word I recieved was hopefully in mid December.
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