- This practice-built 2022 Lexus LX600 will make its debut at Overland Expo West.
- A 2.5-inch elevate is one among many modifications that enhance the SUV’s off-road readiness.
- An Off Grid Trailers Pando 2.0 camper that is able to tackling rugged terrain can be in tow.
Toyota could now not import the Land Cruiser to our shores, however its Lexus luxurious arm nonetheless sends us the mechanically comparable LX600. Regardless of its shared mechanical items, the LX600 lacks a devoted off-road variant. Happily, the parents at Overland Expo are taking issues into their very own fingers with a customized 2022 LX600 that serves as this yr’s Final Overland Automobile.
Following within the tread marks of final yr’s Final Overland Automobile—a customized 2022 GMC Sierra 1500 AT4X—this off-grid-ready LX600 incorporates a mess of aftermarket parts to enhance its off-road capabilities. Credit score Mule Expedition Outfitters for turning this once-ordinary LX600 right into a bonafide trail-conquering machine.
The boxy Lexus SUV isn’t the one piece on this overlanding puzzle, as an Off Grid Trailers Pando 2.0 camper can be in tow. That is no run-of-the-mill camper, both. With a claimed 8.0 inches of wheel journey and 24.0 inches of floor clearance, the Pando 2.0 is able to sort out robust terrain. A 360-degree articulating hitch ensures its presence has little impact on the Lexus it is connected to.
This camper has all of the luxuries of house too, together with a sleeping space able to holding a queen-size mattress, an air-conditioning system, a bathe enclosure, a scorching water system, and a rear galley kitchen. The latter bit holds as much as 33 gallons of recent water for the sink. A dual-burner cooktop and a pizza oven that’s hidden inside the camper’s slide-out cupboard space imply going off-grid doesn’t require sacrificing scorching meals.
But the Pando 2.0’s capabilities are solely nearly as good as these of the automobile it’s connected to. The accompanying LX600 options a lot of enhancements that enhance upon the inventory body-on-frame SUV’s shortcomings.
Notably, an ARB Summit MKII entrance bumper replaces the inventory setup. Together with significantly enhancing the LX600’s strategy angle, the aftermarket bumper homes the likes of Comeup’s SOLO Collection 12.5 winch, ARB’s Depth IQ off-road lights, and Midland Radio’s Bull Bar Antenna, which works to enhance the reception of the interior-mounted Midland MXT-575 GMRS radio. A 2.5-inch suspension elevate by means of Complete Chaos-sourced suspension items, Radflo’s 2.5 Diameter Distant Reservoir shock absorbers and coil springs, and a set of 17-inch wheels from Icon Dynamics wrapped in knobby Kenda Klever R/T tires additional contribute to the Lexus’s off-road prowess.
These in want of further sleeping areas will probably be glad to know this LX features a Prinsu roof rack with a rooftop tent and an related awning. Complementing the brand new entrance bumper is a CBI Offroad twin swing-out rear bumper that carries a full-size spare tire, a 5.0-gallon jerrycan, and traction boards. Opening the rear hatch reveals a Dometic CFX3 45 fridge and different goodies, together with an auxiliary energy administration system.
All this equipment is bound to take successful on the 409-hp LX600’s efficiency, as the one improve to the twin-turbocharged 3.4-liter V-6 comes courtesy of a MagnaFlow Overland Collection cat-back exhaust. Think about the final LX600 we examined clocked in at simply shy of 6000 kilos and wanted 6.1 seconds to make its option to 60 mph. With 1000’s of kilos of equipment in tow and connected to it, this tradition LX600 will possible want a few further ticks of the second hand to hit the mile-a-minute mark.
Then once more, this LX600 is the Final Overland Automobile, not the Final Accelerating Automobile, so fast acceleration isn’t actually a necessity. The certain hit this equipment should the LX600’s gasoline economic system is probably going extra troublesome, as maintaining this rig fueled up will imply much less time spent off the grid and extra time spent again in city society pumping fuel.
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