2022 LexusLX LX 600 Premium For Sale

Price: The 2022 Lexus LX 600 starts at $88,245.

If you’re going by the traditional belief that a luxury sport utility vehicle should be rugged and capable, yet posh and refined, then the Lexus LX may just be the ultimate SUV. Built on Toyota’s J300 platform, which also underpins the new but not-for-the-U.S. Land Cruiser, the 2022 Lexus LX 600 builds on the credibility of its predecessors. And with the Land Cruiser now discontinued here in North America, the LX serves as the lone continuation of Toyota’s legendary J-Series line of vehicles here in the U.S.

It’s hard not to look at the LX 600 as a sort of off-road grand touring SUV. This massive Lexus will be equally at home taking you through the Holland Tunnel from Lower Manhattan into New Jersey on a Tuesday evening as it will be summiting the rugged and remote 13,000-foot Imogene Pass deep in the San Juan Mountains above Telluride, Colorado.

We’d split the LX 600’s competitors into two different groups: those that prioritize off-road capability, and those that don’t.

Luxury SUVs with off-road ambitions on the level of the LX include the Mercedes-Benz G-Class and a number of Land Rover models, namely the full-size Range Rover, the Discovery, and one might even argue, the Defender.

If you don’t care about off-road capability, you might also cross-shop the new LX 600 with the Mercedes-Benz GLS, BMW X7, and the Audi Q7 and Q8.

Previously, we’d have included the Toyota Land Cruiser as a competitor as well, given that aside from styling, the two vehicles are essentially the same. But while the Land Cruiser soldiers on in a new 300 Series generation elsewhere in the world, Toyota has made the controversial decision to discontinue its flagship SUV here in the U.S., leaving the LX to bear the torch going forward.