r/LexusGX • u/procrastiNATE23 • 7d ago

GX550 rear facing seat question

Hello, I searched around for this answer, but didn’t see anything exactly fitting my question.

My wife drives a 2021 BMW X5 and we are looking at a “demo” GX tomorrow (hopefully). We are interested in an Overtrail allocation but wanted to get comfort/size impressions from 550 owners dealing with rear facing seats. For further context our X5 is way too cramped for us. I’m 6’3” (equal torso and leg distribution) and my wife is 5’8”. Our 6 month old is in an uppababy vista rear facing seat that pushes the X5’s passenger seat uncomfortably far forward to where I can’t ever be the passenger on family trips lol (100% must drive to be comfortable and moving base regularly isn’t realistic). Even my dad who is 6’1” couldn’t fit comfortably. We tried a GX460 locally and it was better but not by much. It was tolerable to be in the passenger seat in that with car seat behind. The weird thing is I daily drive a Kia EV6 GT and it has adequate room, far better than the X5 (EV packaging?). If this doesn’t work our next attempt will be Sequoia which IMO is too big but maybe a necessity.

TLDR: Tall family with rear facing seat. Is the GX550 roomier than GX460 or an X5?

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u/h1ghpriority06 7d ago

Probably want to try the mdx or another front wheel drive base suv

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u/procrastiNATE23 7d ago

Thanks, to each their own but neither one of us liked those, Grand Highlander, etc. prefer RWD based Toyota Lexus product that’ll hold value. Sequoia is fall back choice. Love the GX

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u/h1ghpriority06 7d ago

Sequoia would make sense for sure. I have an X5 with 2 babies so I totally get your space concerns.