The 2025 Lincoln Navigator ushered in a host of notable changes for the big, luxurious SUV, including a fresh exterior design fore and aft, a new split liftgate, and a completely revamped interior with a massive coast-to-coast screen. However, aside from its arch rival, the Cadillac Escalade, the Navigator has a few other competitors in this particular space, and that includes the Lexus LX, which just received a comprehensive redesign for the 2022 model year. Now, some time later, the Lexus LX 700h is joining the lineup as a new hybrid option for customers to mull over.
The 2025 Lexus LX 700h offers something that the Navigator doesn’t, at least for now – a hybrid powertrain, which in this case combines the existing twin-turbocharged 3.4L V6 from the LX 600 with an electric motor and battery. This combo results in a combined output of 457 ponies and 583 pound-feet of torque – up from the LX 600’s 409 horsepower and 479 pound-feet – and Lexus expects it to also add around one mile-per-gallon in terms of fuel efficiency, bringing it to around 20 mpg combined, though that number hasn’t been finalized yet.
Regardless, the Lexus LX 700h still utilizes the same 10-speed automatic transmission as the LX 600, though it is a bit unique in that it features the brand’s first hybrid system with both an alternator and a starter. This way, in the event that the hybrid system isn’t operating as it should, the starter can still start the vehicle and the alternator provides power to the 12-volt battery – meaning that one can continue driving the SUV even if the electrified component fails.
In recent years, Lexus has been on a mission to launch a bevy of new, completely revamped products that go far beyond the typical styling and tech updates present in models like the “redesigned” 2025 Navigator. Aside from the LX 600, that list also includes the 2024 GX and TX, the former of which shares nothing in common with its predecessor, while the latter arrived as an all-new product as well.
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For those playing at home, that’s the base powertrain for the Sequoia that the LX is based on. Frankly it’s insane that the Lexus didn’t have the hybrid to start with since Sequoia offers it standard, and Tundra its optional.
When is Ford/Lincoln getting out of China?
In the meantime, what is Ford doing to ensure the security and integrity of the all the cars being built in China?
Absent absolute software security and integrity, Ford is unleashing automotive “Trojan Horses” on the American Public.
Not good!