Grey Lexus TX Rental in Los Angeles

A dark grey is the right weight for the TX. This is a long car with a lot of flat side, and white makes it look like a shuttle while black makes it look heavy — a deep grey keeps the length reading as space and lets the big grille and the full-width light bar do the work of giving it a face.

It is the family car in the fleet that draws the least attention, which for a lot of trips is exactly what is wanted. Grey does not glare on a long freeway day, does not show the dust a trailhead leaves, and looks equally right dropping people at a hotel or at a school. Take it when the week is about the people in the car rather than the car.

The TX is Lexus's answer to the question every three-row SUV gets asked and most fail: can a grown-up sit in the back row. It can. The TX was designed around the third row rather than having one added, so there is real legroom and real headroom there, and the second row slides to trade space between them without anybody having to negotiate.

Everything else is what Lexus does. The cabin is very quiet at freeway speed, the ride is soft, the switchgear is unfussy, and the whole car is set up to make a long day unremarkable. Two boots' worth of space with the third row folded, and enough behind it for a weekend's bags when it is up.

Honest hook: it is a large, comfortable family car, not a fast or exciting one. That is exactly the brief it was built to.