I recently spent a week test driving the Lexus LX570 sport utility vehicle and had a bit of an epiphany while doing so.
I realized at some point that SUVs and SUV crossovers being sold in America these days aren’t what they used to be.
It used to be that manufacturers only had to design, engineer and produce SUVs for the unimproved road or trail. The way they measured success was how well the vehicle did on the toughest trails. They didn’t have to be blazingly-fast dragsters that you could






