Lexus Teases Their Three-Row RX Before LA

This should be interesting, hopefully it does not look weird in an extra length version. After all the Trailblazer / Envoy had an extra length version that did sell but not in the expected numbers just to have a 3rd row and extra storage space. Then again Lexus owners are a little bit strange.  

So I wonder if this will render the GX redundant?  it's a BOF 3 row SUV that is still around, but long ago forgotten...

The GX is hopelessly dated, it had a V8 making 302 hp or some level that modern 4 cylinders can make.  3 row RX means they can kill GX or move it to some new chassis and push up the price.

Lexus is doing it wrong.  They should take a page out of GM's Lambda platform and do that instead of a pseudo-three row CUV sandwiched into what should be a two-row CUV.

They need to lengthen the wheelbase.  The current RX only has a 109.x inch wheelbase, the GX 112.9...both are too short for a 3 row, needs more like 118-120 for proper legroom for the 2nd and 3rd rows.

Oddly, the Highlander has a 109.x wheelbase and 3 rows, wonder how the legroom for the 3rd row is..I read the 2nd row is adjustable...so this RX 3 row sounds like it will be a reskinned Highlander. 

11 hours ago, Cubical-aka-Moltar said:

They need to lengthen the wheelbase.  The current RX only has a 109.x inch wheelbase, the GX 112.9...both are too short for a 3 row, needs more like 118-120 for proper legroom for the 2nd and 3rd rows.

Oddly, the Highlander has a 109.x wheelbase and 3 rows, wonder how the legroom for the 3rd row is..I read the 2nd row is adjustable...so this RX 3 row sounds like it will be a reskinned Highlander. 

The RX probably IS a Highlander with a Lexus package.  The fact that the Highlander has a 3 row option is actually proof that the RX (and Highlander) are simply too short/small to handle three rows well.  Unless you only seat small children in the third row.  Toyota/Lexus should simply build a proper 3 row crossover just like the GM Lambdas.

7 hours ago, riviera74 said:

The RX probably IS a Highlander with a Lexus package.  The fact that the Highlander has a 3 row option is actually proof that the RX (and Highlander) are simply too short/small to handle three rows well.  Unless you only seat small children in the third row.  Toyota/Lexus should simply build a proper 3 row crossover just like the GM Lambdas.

I think the Highlander and RX have always been platform siblings since the beginning. 

On 11/15/2017 at 1:36 PM, smk4565 said:

The GX is hopelessly dated, it had a V8 making 302 hp or some level that modern 4 cylinders can make.  3 row RX means they can kill GX or move it to some new chassis and push up the price.

Again being so one dimensional.  Yes the GX is dated, but a 302 hp V8 is still going to drive smoother and more torquey than a 302hp 2.0T.  A 2.0T in the GX would be completely inappropriate... you'd be into the boost all the time.