I've had my 2000 LX470 for almost a year now. I've never taken it off road, but it's been great on some of the rough ranch roads I drive on fairly often. Well yesterday I took it "off road" in the sense of driving off pavement onto a completely flat grassy area that I thought could be used for parking at an outdoor event I was going to (all the paved parking spaces were taken). Well, thinking all is invincible in my hundy, I swing off the pavement onto the beautiful St. Augustine turf and arc back around to the driveway. Problem is about 3 feet from the driveway I start sinking in the South Texas gumbo. Due to heavy rainfall in the past week, the ground was really wet and I got stuck. No problem I think, I'll just lock the differential, shift into low, and show everyone else who was starting to get stuck that the hundy was the master of this domain. But it was not to be. Wheels just kept spinning, getting deeper and deeper. I finally gave up and had AAA pull me out. Moral of the story (for me at least) was that just because you have a beast of a vehicle, it doesn't guaranty you can traverse over everything. Since then, I've been reading posts of how to evac from mud and now I know why this forum is called what it is. My story was nothing compared to some of the mud evac stories here. So now I know. Color me enlightened. It doesn't sound like there is a magic driving secret to getting out of mud. You just have to avoid it or have the hi jack lift, winch, boards or other tools.