{"id":715328,"date":"2010-04-13T11:18:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10004470"},"modified":"2010-04-13T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T15:18:03","slug":"consumer-reports-dont-buy-this-lexus-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715328","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports: Don&#8217;t Buy This Lexus SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/4-13-2010%2011-00-25%20AM-thumb-400x218-39224.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Our little buddies at Consumer Reports have determined that a safety risk may be present in the 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV. When pushed to its limits on CR&#8217;s track, the rear of the GX they bought &#8220;slid out until the vehicle was almost sideways before the electronic stability control system was able to regain control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CR says they do this test on all SUVs and of the 95 they&#8217;ve tested in the current ratings only this Lexus performed badly enough to warrant the dreaded &#8220;Don&#8217;t Buy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out this video for slow motion footage of the test. Looks kinda fun, but you wouldn&#8217;t want to try it inadvertently on a exit ramp, right?<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/21495733001?isVid=1\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=77022871001&#038;playerID=21495733001&#038;domain=embed&#038;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.consumerreports.org\/cars\/2010\/04\/consumer-reports-2010-lexus-gx-dont-buy-safety-risk.html?EXTKEY=I91ECON&#038;CMP=OTC-ConsumeristLinks\"> Don&#8217;t Buy: Safety Risk&#8211;2010 Lexus GX 460 <\/a> [CR]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our little buddies at Consumer Reports have determined that a safety risk may be present in the 2010 Lexus GX 460 SUV. When pushed to its limits on CR&#8217;s track, the rear of the GX they bought &#8220;slid out until the vehicle was almost sideways before the electronic stability control system was able to regain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-305y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}