2025 Lexus TX 350: Deep in the Heart of TX
If you’re looking for big, comfortable and something that has a lot of room, look into the 2025 Lexus TX.
Introduced last year, the TX is the big new Hoss in town and has been making a lot of room for itself. It’s not a powerhouse and not meant for going off-road, but it will get you through the noise and carry all your weight in style and comfort.
This is a large luxury vehicle, to be sure. Space abounds in the TX, with 20 cubic feet of cargo room if you leave the 3rdrow of seats up, 57 cubic feet when you put those seats down and 97 cubic feet of space when you fold down the 2nd row of seats. You can safely get four Bears and two otters or a couple ‘o big dogs back there.
Every petrol-only TX this year comes as a 350, which does not necessarily refer to horsepower. You can also choose a hybrid (TX 500h) or a hybrid plug-in (TX 550h+), both of which cost more but are more elegant and zippier than the base 350, which is what I tested.
You will be paying more than $56K US for the base TX, but the standard features are considerable. Power liftgate, 14-inch infotainment display, heated-power front seats, heated steering wheel, 20-inch wheels, lane-keep assist, blind-spot warning, lane-centering system, intersection collision mitigation… to name a few.
I really enjoyed driving this beast, both this year and last year. Just make sure you can handle it.
The Lexus TX is, in so many ways, the twin brother of the Toyota Grand Highlander. Just as big and just as powerful as the TX (and both manufactured in Princeton, Indiana). Both are playing on the same football team and scoring the same number of points – but, coming in a bit cheaper and getting a few more guys in the bleachers to take off their jerseys and whoop-whoop with praise… is the Grand Highlander (maybe because it is wearing a kilt the traditional Scottish way). Thus, you may want to also check out this husky linebacker, as I did last year.
So now that the Vatican has buried a Pope and Trump couldn’t stay awake for the service, he has decided this is a good time to arrest a 4-year-old boy with cancer and send him to Honduras with his mother and sister. He just happens to also be an American citizen, entitled to Medicaid and Due Process. Yep: One-way ticket. In handcuffs. No need to continue life-saving treatments here in Louisiana.
In light of this, it seems shallow to talk about cars and prices and tariffs, but that is the point of this review. In short, I see prices going up. A lot. Even for used vehicles, especially ones in decent conditions.
Please continue to be vigilant. Keep your eyes open.
Traveling to and from the United States of America right now is, well….. Proceed with caution, please.
Two German teens were “detained and deported” from Hawaii, all because they did not have a hotel reservation. All they wanted to do was see the world before they started college, plus they had all their paperwork in order, along with the proper travel visas, just not a solid hotel reservation. So the next stop was a detention center and green prison jumpsuits. And not a pineapple Mai Tai on Waikiki.
Gawd, how did we get here? I thought the internet was supposed to make everyone smarter.
Not more compliant.
