My sister likes the Lexus RX, though she talks about needing good cargo space, which the RX lacks. The Highlander she doesnt approve of the design but the grand Highlander she’s madly in love with.
She will either be buying slightly used or brand new.
I liked how you did the comparison to give a well sounded advice. May I ask if losing 30hp means the suv is slower than if it retained such hp ?
Or does the turbo make up for it ?
Either engine supplies more than enough power for any normal driving. How often is full-throttle acceleration needed? For me, never. We have the non-turbo 4 RX350h and never have noticed a lack of power.
Most people probably wouldn’t notice it. The turbo 4 is slightly slower overall though. At low speeds and when pulling away from a stop the better torque of the turbo 4 will make it feel peppy.
There was a stop-sale order for the Grand Highlander and Lexus TX during the last 6 months for a safety recall, a problem with the side curtain airbags. New inventory is now beginning to arrive on dealer lots.
The Lexus RX, TX and Grand Highlander share the same 2.4 L turbocharged engine with the same engine problems and software glitches. The difficulty for dealer technicians is that it takes Toyota a year or more to develop a remedy for these problems. In the meantime, the critics advise vehicle owners to complain to the manufacture if their dealer can’t provide satisfaction.
I realized when I looked at the RX and the VIN, the info showed was that the SUV had a recall pending.
My rav4 does too. Toyota promised a remedy for 2 years now and nothing has done yet.
I appreciate the info you shared here. I’ll show it to my sister so she knows what to expect and what to do.
Hey Clueless - I was just asking a question. You get triggered to easily.
So can I. I have other things to waste my money on.
Said the pot to the kettle.
There is a lot more to look at power wise then just the HP numbers, example, the 2016-2023 Tacoma 3.5L V6 has 278 hp @ 6000 rpm and 265 lb.-ft. @ 4600 rpm, that is a lot of rpms to get up to in the torque range, it doesn’t start pulling hard until 3000ish rpms, not much below 2000 rpms, but for the 2024 Tacoma’s, no more V6, but the little 2.4L turbo puts out the same HP with 278 hp @ 6000 rpm, but the torque is way more with 317 lb-ft @ 1700 rpm (where it is needed), that means a little off idle it pulls way harder then the V6’s and guys that have owned both are saying the 2.4L turbo will blow the doors off the V6’s, and guys that own the V6’s that have been put in the loaner Tacoma’s with the 2.4L turbos (or just test drove them) say the same thing… As well as a few that have red light raced, say the new (2024) Tacoma’s just ran off and left them…
Then you have the 2.4L turbo Hybrid and holly cow, it has a massive 326 hp @ 6000 rpm and 465 lb-ft @ 1700 rpm compared to the V6 Tacoma’s 278 hp @ 6000 rpm and 265 lb.-ft. @ 4600…
So the little 2.4L’s are making a name for them selves, but the reason I went with the 2023 V6 and not the 2024 was due to the fact I just don’t think the 2.4L will last as long as the 3.5L will, but only time will tell…
Torque is what gets ya moving, HP helps ya to pass other vehicles at speed… In heavy vehicles anyway… (yes it is more technical then that but that is the basics)
Thanks for the explanation. I always paid attention to HP instead of torque because I didn’t understand what a torque is. Probably still don’t.
Even HP I probably don’t understand, either, after reading your comment.
But let me try to see if I understand a tiny bit.
The torque is what kicks ? Like the force from taking off ? And the HP is how fast the car can go ? No ?
I just can’t understand these differences. My head is slow on this issue. lol.
HP = (Torque * RPM) / 5252.
Some engines with low torque need higher RPMs to achieve same HP a higher torque engine does. Usually the higher torque the faster the acceleration.
And you may never truly understand the difference, Mike beat me to the link, and there are tons more out there including videos, google HP vs Torque…
Here are a couple of chassis dyno charts to kinda show you how an engine ramps up… Now just to confuse you even more, Chassis dyno are numbers at the wheel (drive tires) and engine dyno are numbers at the flywheel (crank), the numbers you mostly read about in magazines are engine dyno numbers unless mentioned otherwise as a rule of thumb… The Chassis dyno numbers are generally about 20% less than the engine dyno numbers due to power train loss (everything between the flywheel and the rubber on the ground (or wheel hubs now a days)…
Here is the 3rd gen Tacoma numbers stock vs a tune for the transmission and better applying the torque for the truck, remember this engine in a Camry makes 300 HP, so it is NOT a performance tune, it just remaps the lazy throttle response and redoes the gear shifting issues (like a valve body reprogram but through the TCM)… You can see how much more meat the Tacoma has down low(er) at 2500 rpms helping the truck do what it is designed to do…
This is a friends old 2020ish Infinity Q50 3.0L Twin Turbo Red Sport, 400 HP factory… It now has/had (sold it) over 800 HP at the crank, built to be a Hellcat eater, it is also about a 1000 pounds lighter… It was stupid fast and banned from the drag strip until he installed a cage… lol
Light Green is Torque and dark Green is HP
BTW for anyone interested, he shipped the car to another state and wrote them a check for $25,000 to double the HP… Shipping cost not included…
