2015 Lexus GX460 Luxury: Pikes Peak race reporter review - Autoweek
At this point, I ran into the issue that always comes up when packing an SUV: from the outside, they look like they ought to have a lot more cargo room than they actually have on the inside. In order to do real-truck things off-road, these trucks have full frames and lots of bulky mechanical gear underneath. coupled with the need to have existence-of-outside-world-denying sound insulation plus crash protection, this results in a vehicle that holds about as much stuff as much smaller wagons or hatchbacks. I was joking when I told my fellow campers that my beater '92 Honda Civic holds as much stuff as this 5,000-plus-pound monster, but we ended up filling up one of the back seats with our stuff. This isn't Toyota's fault -- they have done a nice execution of a midsize SUV here -- but it points out the reality that a lot of buyers of trucks like this (i. e. , the ones who never leave the asphalt as they drive from home to work to mall)... At this point, I was thinking that I'd have been better off getting a super-plush and roomy Lexus LS 460 F Sport , but the GX460 turned out to be very civilized on the highway south to the mountain. Source: autoweek.com
