Let’s get this out of the way: not everyone loves or even likes the new look of Lexus. Until recently, Lexus cars and SUVS have generally been benign, risk-averse creatures made for benign, ...

The RX 450h+ plug-in hybrid luxury SUV sits right at the intersection of pragmatism and indulgence, sipping electrons like a monk but wrapped in enough leather to make a cattle ranch nervous.

Success brings challenges, to be sure. With the ’16 RX, engineers and product planners were left with the tricky task of keeping loyalists happy while trying to broaden appeal—most obviously beyond ...

Even with a few small steps backward, the overall result is that the fifth-generation RX remains a pleasant midsized luxury ...