{"id":526254,"date":"2010-04-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/consumer-reports-puts-lexus-gx-on-do-not-buy-list-due-t\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:00:00","slug":"consumer-reports-puts-lexus-gx-on-do-not-buy-list-due-to-rollover-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526254","title":{"rendered":"<i>Consumer Reports<\/i> puts Lexus GX on &#8220;Do Not Buy&#8221; list due to rollover fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/suvs\/\" rel=\"tag\">SUV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/safety\/\" rel=\"tag\">Safety<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/lexus\/\" rel=\"tag\">Lexus<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/toyota\/\" rel=\"tag\">Toyota<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/luxury\/\" rel=\"tag\">Luxury<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/gallery\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"0\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2010\/04\/gx460-630.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><small>2010 Lexus GX460 &#8211; Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>\n<em>Consumer Reports<\/em> has officially given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/model\/gx\">Lexus GX<\/a> the automotive equivalent of a black eye. The publication has deemed the high-riding luxury SUV a &#8220;safety risk&#8221; for its likelihood to go shiny side down during emergency maneuvers, and as such, has put it on the publication&#8217;s infamous &#8220;Do Not Buy&#8221; list. During testing, the <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> crew found that the traction control on the GX would allow the vehicle to slide nearly completely sideways before getting everything in line. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, while Consumer Reports tested the nearly-identical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/tag\/4runner\">Toyota 4Runner<\/a>, that SUV wasn&#8217;t found to suffer the same problem with the traction control. Is it possible that all of the luxury goodies you&#8217;ll find aboard the Lexus add enough pounds to overwhelm the vehicle&#8217;s stability control, or that the Lexus has significantly different programming? It&#8217;s possible.<\/p>\n<p>So far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/make\/toyota\/\">Toyota<\/a> hasn&#8217;t said much other than that it&#8217;s concerned with the <em>Consumer Reports<\/em> findings. Considering that the Japanese manufacturer has had more than its fair share of bad publicity recently, being blacklisted by <em>CR<\/em> is just another log on the fire.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"postgallery\">\n<p><strong>Gallery: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\">First Drive: 2010 Lexus GX460<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/2010lexusgx460fd_04_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/2010lexusgx460fd_02_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/2010lexusgx460fd_01_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/2010lexusgx460fd_03_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/2010-lexus-gx460-first-drive\/low\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.autoblog.com\/media\/2009\/12\/2010lexusgx460fd_05_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100413\/OEM\/100419972\/1292\">Automotive News<\/a> &#8211; sub. req.]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/13\/consumer-reports-puts-lexus-gx-on-do-not-buy-list-due-t\/\"><i>Consumer Reports<\/i> puts Lexus GX on &#8220;Do Not Buy&#8221; list due to rollover fears<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\">Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:00:00 EST.  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The publication has deemed the high-riding luxury SUV a &#8220;safety risk&#8221; for its likelihood to go shiny side down during emergency maneuvers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6487,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6487"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}