In reading this and other forums' archives I've seen it brought up often that AHC is inferior to KDSS for off-roading. Since KDSS acts like an auto swaybar disconnect, more or less, I thought that this would imply that AHC-equipped LX 570s, that is to say all the ones sold in the US, would have poorer articulation than their KDSS-equipped LC brethren. After all, if this weren't the case and the system proved to be reliable, the extra clearance that AHC could give would give it the advantage, stock vs. stock.
It turns out that this isn't the case: Per Four Wheeler's testing the LX and LC rack up nigh-identical RTI scores, 542 to 538. Also, Inside Line put both their GX and LC on their own 20 degree ramp. Although their numbers differ a bit it's still pretty clear that the LC (and thus, by extension, the LX) flexes more than the KDSS-equipped GX, which is a highly regarded machine in its own rightl
I link to the original tests here in this earlier Google+ post of mine: https://plus.google.com/115479414905422234350/posts/4UjKS2hBWR9?fd=1 and below are Inside Line's RTI shots:
From all this I think it's safe to say that the LX actually isn't hobbled off-road compared to the LC, again stock vs. stock. Both the LC and LX would share their owners' reluctance to scratch them up as they're really not that differently priced, and the limited approach/departure angles due to those big stock bumpers are also the same. Before someone points out that ARB can fix this latter problem for the LC, I just found out that their bumpers also fit the LX 570, even though they're not advertised this way. Photographic, somewhat absurd looking, non-color matched proof here: http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb327/joshatbaertrax/LX570 with 200series ARB Bumpers/
I actually own neither a LC nor an LX at the moment--in fact, my only "car" is my motorcycle since this past spring--but I've been eyeing the LX for a long time. Knowing that the RTI is the same and that the ARB stuff fits is a big mental relief, actually, even though I'd probably actually end up doing nothing more radical than getting two extra sets of 18" wheels with LT275/65-18 AT and snow tires, respectively, in order to run light trails and go skiing.
It turns out that this isn't the case: Per Four Wheeler's testing the LX and LC rack up nigh-identical RTI scores, 542 to 538. Also, Inside Line put both their GX and LC on their own 20 degree ramp. Although their numbers differ a bit it's still pretty clear that the LC (and thus, by extension, the LX) flexes more than the KDSS-equipped GX, which is a highly regarded machine in its own rightl
I link to the original tests here in this earlier Google+ post of mine: https://plus.google.com/115479414905422234350/posts/4UjKS2hBWR9?fd=1 and below are Inside Line's RTI shots:
From all this I think it's safe to say that the LX actually isn't hobbled off-road compared to the LC, again stock vs. stock. Both the LC and LX would share their owners' reluctance to scratch them up as they're really not that differently priced, and the limited approach/departure angles due to those big stock bumpers are also the same. Before someone points out that ARB can fix this latter problem for the LC, I just found out that their bumpers also fit the LX 570, even though they're not advertised this way. Photographic, somewhat absurd looking, non-color matched proof here: http://s1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb327/joshatbaertrax/LX570 with 200series ARB Bumpers/
I actually own neither a LC nor an LX at the moment--in fact, my only "car" is my motorcycle since this past spring--but I've been eyeing the LX for a long time. Knowing that the RTI is the same and that the ARB stuff fits is a big mental relief, actually, even though I'd probably actually end up doing nothing more radical than getting two extra sets of 18" wheels with LT275/65-18 AT and snow tires, respectively, in order to run light trails and go skiing.
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