Lexus drops the TX plug-in hybrid for 2027 and raises every TX price $400

Lexus has pulled the plug-in hybrid out of the 2027 TX lineup and added $400 to the sticker of every trim that remains. The entry TX 350 now starts at $58,890 including destination charges, and the top TX 500h F SPORT Performance Luxury AWD moves from $75,160 to $75,560. The changes land while Lexus is reworking much of its U.S. product plan, and the missing powertrain is the larger story for shoppers who wanted to drive on electricity.

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Nine trims, one flat increase

Autoblog’s rundown of the 2027 model year lists the full ladder, and the pattern is uniform. The TX 350 front-drive goes from $58,490 to $58,890, and the all-wheel-drive version from $60,090 to $60,490. The Premium trim moves from $61,290 to $61,690 (AWD $62,890 to $63,290), and the Luxury from $63,640 to $64,040 (AWD $65,240 to $65,640). The TX 350 F SPORT Handling climbs from $67,760 to $68,160, and the two TX 500h F SPORT Performance trims go from $72,010 to $72,410 and from $75,160 to $75,560.

Every one of those nine moves is exactly $400, which makes the change a flat adjustment rather than a percentage one. Measured against the 2026 prices, that is well under one percent on each trim, and Autoblog describes it as a slight base price increase for the new cycle.

The TX 550h+ goes on pause

The vehicle that disappears is the TX 550h+ Luxury AWD plug-in hybrid, which Lexus introduced in 2023. Writing for Autoblog, senior editor Sebastian Cenizo reported that the model has been removed from Lexus’s build configurator. It was last listed at $81,060 including destination, with 404 horsepower and an estimated 33 miles of all-electric driving. Lexus’s own website, as quoted by Autoblog, says “This isn’t goodbye” and that “Production of the TX 550h+ will pause after the 2026 model year.”

Lexus representatives told Autoblog that plans are actively underway for the TX 550h+ to return, though no 2027 plug-in is confirmed and no return date has been given. Autoblog calls the departure a temporary gap at the top of the range, and the choice of words fits the evidence so far: a paused model on the company’s own website is a different thing from a cancelled one, but a pause with no date is still an absence for buyers shopping this fall.

What remains is two powertrains. The TX 350 uses a 275-horsepower, 2.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder, and the TX 500h pairs its engine with a hybrid system rated at 366 horsepower. Small changes accompany the price bump: revised vacuum brake booster tuning and brake hold software on the gasoline model, Matador Red Mica paint returning for non-F SPORT trims, darker gray finish on the Premium grade’s 20-inch wheels, and standard “AWD” badging replacing “DIRECT4” on the TX 500h.

A crowded three-row segment and a reshuffled brand

The TX is selling well enough that rivals are taking notice. Autoblog reports that Acura is reportedly weighing a three-row SUV above the MDX, a project said to be known internally as the XL, which Honda has not confirmed. Gary Robinson, American Honda’s planning chief, told Automotive News only that “There’s opportunity in different places, and SUV is the biggest part of the premium market today,” according to Autoblog’s report on Acura’s interest. Toyota’s U.S. sales data show Lexus sold 28,112 TX SUVs in the first half of the year, third behind the RX and NX.

Autoblog adds that the Japanese-market TX will reportedly be fully electric, with no gasoline engines at all. The detail is secondhand and unconfirmed by Lexus, but it shows how unsettled the nameplate’s powertrain mix is across regions while the American lineup narrows, for now, to a turbocharged four-cylinder and a hybrid.

Lexus itself says the TX is due for more attention. In an Automotive News interview summarized by Autoblog, DeJuan Ross, group vice president and general manager of the Lexus Division at Toyota Motor North America, said “Reinvesting in the core and refreshing those core products at a more regular cadence will be well received by the dealers.” The same report says planned upgrades include the RX and TX, with about 90 percent of what the brand’s 246 U.S. dealers sell over the next 18 months expected to be new or refreshed.

The pricing move also arrives as the brand chases a bigger rival. Autoblog’s third-quarter tally has Lexus at 93,056 U.S. sales for the quarter and 262,768 for the year to date, while BMW has 287,154, a 24,386-unit lead that Autoblog says would take a remarkable fourth quarter to close. A $400 increase across nine trims will not decide that race, but a flagship plug-in sitting out the model year will not help it.

For a buyer, the practical read is plain. Every 2027 TX now costs $400 more than its 2026 equivalent, and anyone who specifically wants a plug-in must wait for Lexus to confirm the TX 550h+ comeback, which at the moment rests on a line of text on the company’s own site and an unnamed representative’s assurance.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.

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