Which Toyota Lexus models affected by roll-over crash cases?

[john]

Does anyone know which Lexus models are susceptible to roll-over
crashes in these litigations?

"Toyota Motor Corp. may face demands that rollover-crash cases it won
or settled be reopened, in light of accusations by a former company
lawyer that the automaker hid records sought by plaintiffs.

The ex-Toyota lawyer, Dimitrios Biller, last month sued Toyota,
claiming the world's largest automaker and its U.S. units destroyed
engineering and testing evidence relevant in more than 300 suits over
sport utility vehicle rollover accidents. Biller managed Toyota's
electronic document-discovery program, he said in court papers."

http://www.detnews.com/article/20090901/AUTO01%20/909010330/1148/rss25

[DaveW]

Post by john
Does anyone know which Lexus models are susceptible to roll-over
crashes in these litigations?

If you find out, let me know, and I'll buy you one.

[C. E. White]

I would think the obvious candidates would be the Lexus SUVs. But I
suspect none of the Lexus models are particualy prone to rollovers
(compared to other similar vehicles). The worst Toyota models would be
the prior generation 4Runners and the Tacoma pick-ups. The older
4Runners had a very high rollover rate - much worse than average. It
always bothered me that the press trashed the 4 door Ford Explorer for
rollovers, when in fact they (4 door Explorers) had one of the lower
rollover rates for SUVs, while the 4Runner had a rollover rate many
times greater. Of course the total number of 4Runner rollovers was
tiny compared to the number of Explorer rollover since the Explorer
greatly outsold the 4Runner.

Anyhow, I don't think any of the Lexus models have high rollover
rates. The current generation 4Runners have very low rollover rates. I
suspect "Lexus" is mentioned becasue "Lexus" vehicles are Toyotas and
the same document archiving proceedures are used.

Ed

Post by john
Does anyone know which Lexus models are susceptible to roll-over
crashes in these litigations?
"Toyota Motor Corp. may face demands that rollover-crash cases it won
or settled be reopened, in light of accusations by a former company
lawyer that the automaker hid records sought by plaintiffs.
The ex-Toyota lawyer, Dimitrios Biller, last month sued Toyota,
claiming the world's largest automaker and its U.S. units destroyed
engineering and testing evidence relevant in more than 300 suits over
sport utility vehicle rollover accidents. Biller managed Toyota's
electronic document-discovery program, he said in court papers."
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090901/AUTO01%20/909010330/1148/rss25

[ben91932]

Post by john
Does anyone know which Lexus models are susceptible to roll-over
crashes in these litigations?

Hmm.. perhaps the tall ones?? ;)
Seriously though, there is a TON of info out there.. start here:
http://www.suvrollovernews.com/
and here:
www.suv-rollovers.com/vehicles/lexus-lx.cfm
HTH,
Ben