2025 Lexus GX 550 ANNOUNCED - More LIFT, More Money

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Lexus has just announced the 2025 GX 550. What sort of upgrades has it seen year over year? What are the prices now to reflect the upgrades? Is it better to buy the Land Cruiser or 4Runner?

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00:00 - 2025 Updates
04:05 - Pricing Breakdown

[URLex]

The LX700h Overtrail is definitely something to think about in the used market. Especially bringing Triple lockers back.

[CarsofGlasgow]

Great video Kirk, thanks for sharing. I wish they would bring the GX to the UK, we get the Land Cruiser and its a diesel unit limited to 400 vehicles a year, priced from £75k ($96k USD).

[Piccolo_Re]

Prices of new cars is insane. These companies expect everyone to lease their vehicles. Leasing is a trap and you’re just giving their company money for something you’ll never actually get to own.

[maxKporter]

For the chinese market they already have the hybrid powertrain gx550h

[MountR]

I got a 2024 Premium plus and its unbelievable.

[dsdddsdwe]

I was at the Lexus dealership in Atlanta last week. I spoke to the general manager and he said they can’t even keep the GXs on the lot. They’re moving them so quickly, so with high demand, they can still move the prices up.

[danielmartz]

It looks like the OT and OT+ now have the onboard air compressor, in addition to the aux switches and lift.

[dimdim]

"Three vehicles on the same platform", but differentiating feature is the price: expensive, very expensive and super expensive :)

[Allfather]

Still no mention of introducing another powertrain in the GX550?

[avdp]

Like the LC more, front end design of the GX, not my thing. Think it is a far better choice though than the LandRover Defender. The GX is also reasonable .

In the Netherlands the LC diesel costs in basistrim 185.000 Euro, 100.000 because of the C02 emmissions of the diesel...ridiculous.

[williamgalicia]

FYI a one inch lift trim from lexus, so the 25 will be the same or actually be over 10 inches, please see the following info: *Note: The ground clearance is listed as 8.66 inches for all trims, but Lexus confirmed that Overtrail trims have 9.21 owing to their larger tires. Toyota also measures “running ground clearance” which is a measure of the single lowest point. I measured several places with a laser and found no place, aside from one point at the front suspension crossmember, where there is less than 10 inches of clearance.

[joechughtai]

I wonder if they will make more of them in ’25. I went to my local dealer and they told me wait time of 1 year. Nah, not gonna wait that long thanks though

[bluedevil]

When will you be able to option the Marky Mark Levinson on the base premium model or even the Overtrail (non-plus) model? This is the question.

[victorvicc]

Will the suspension from Lexus be the same as doing it yourself? I’m worried it would likely decrease the down travel/artinulation compared to the 2024 model without a lift. Unless they reengineer the suspension system with the lift in mind.

[kurtbeck]

The Landcruiser is expensive for what it is...no third row, 4 cylinder, less towing. GX has the option of 3rd row, more towing, V6 power, 1 inch OEM lift, better tires, Ekdss, better stereo. The GX premium is worth the difference. The only other consideration would be the LX700h with triple lockers...not sure if they will lift that next year but the AHC is cool feature.

[Mylifeislegendaryvd-vI]

Love the new Gx and a excellent a defender 110/G550 rivals.Excellent job by Lexus.❤. Best GX ever period.

[CeeJay]

My take is that Toyota is now just rolling dealer markups into the MSRP so they get they the additional cash. They are marking up the most desirable version of the GX, but I highly doubt any of these 80+ k MSRP vehicles will find their way off-road - instead, people will buy the 4Runner 4wd Sr5 and build that aftermarket

[brem]

Regarding the wind noise, I would imagine the 4Runner be little quieter than the rest due to a raked back windshield no?

[MD-frst]

@kirkkreifels Do you think Lexus will eventually release an F-Sport version of the GX?

[AP-ccuw]

I get there’s a big market for off road capable vehicles, but I really think Toyota might end up cannibalizing its own sales. I’m considering a 4Runner Limited because I want full time 4WD. But a Limited Iforce max is the same price as a Land Cruiser Land Cruiser trim, and the latter has a rear locker, SDM and crawl control. I’m guessing the 4Runner will have some additional the LC would be missing, and I’m too lazy to go look at them right now but that’s sort of the problem. If I were Nissan, I would prioritize the XTerra and Armada and just make it simple. Give them both full time 4WD options, all the lockers and off road goodies and all the luxury stuff. Allow customers to add any of these options to either of the two platforms. And then make a base model Armada roughly the same cost as a fully loaded Xterra. And make that around 60k. Nissan could easily start stealing 4Runner, LC and GX sales by offering all the features people want on just two platforms.