I don't know if anyone is surprised. Still, Lexus' American roster includes three passenger car nameplates (IS, ES, and LS), while the crossover and SUV lineup comprises no less than seven entries!
That's a grand total of ten nameplates – not bad for an automaker that wasn't even around some 35 years ago, right? Anyway, the luxury vehicle division, which is headquartered at home in Japan but has main operational centers in Brussels, Belgium, and Plano, Texas, the US, is diligently taking care of all of them – new and old.
One of the latter monikers, the GX mid-size premium SUV, has been around for more than two decades as the luxury sibling of the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. Earlier this year, Lexus unveiled – in a double event alongside the first-ever TX crossover SUV with three rows – the third generation GX 550 based on the TNGA-F body-on-frame architecture as the ritzier cousin of the 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser.
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