The 2026 Lexus GX still wears a spindle grille

The 2026 Lexus GX still parks as a body-on-frame box. The spindle grille and upright glass are the sidewalk tell.

The box is already standing. On the 2026 Lexus GX it is a ladder-frame square — upright glass, a flat lid, and that Lexus hourglass cut into the face. From a U.S. sidewalk that is the name.

Nori Green 2026 Lexus GX Overtrail+, front three-quarter on desert gravel with a spindle grille and upright glass
Photo: Lexus.

The spindle does the naming. Triple-Beam lamps sit in the same plane so the corners do not hang out to get clipped. Overtrail blacks the mesh and lifts the springs an inch. Premium keeps a brighter stamp. Same 3.4 twin-turbo V6, 349 horsepower, a ten-speed. Tahara builds it. Do not read the hourglass as a cylinder count.

Nori Green 2026 Lexus GX, dead-front close of the spindle grille and Triple-Beam LED lamps
Photo: Lexus.

The tail signed the same paper. One L-shaped bar, LEXUS spelled across the lid, GX550 on the corner. From thirty feet the spindle already named it.

Nori Green 2026 Lexus GX Overtrail+, rear three-quarter on desert gravel with a LEXUS light bar
Photo: Lexus.