THE RX EFFECT
As a young motoring writer, fuelled by high-octane, I couldn’t wrap my head around the decision of my boss at the time to trade his Audi RS4 for a Lexus RX. To me, he’d gone from a thunderous bahnstorming V8 sedan with all-wheel-drive and done a complete 180 in favour of a bulky SUV that was of all things, a hybrid.
His children had grown up – he didn’t need to ferry them from soccer practice to music lessons. I knew he was an avid golfer – maybe the RX could carry his
