Toyota Highlander Incentives
By
Herman Syah
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Thursday, March 22, 2018
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Toyota Highlander
Toyota Highlander Incentives
Like the 1986 movie Highlander, the Toyota SUV that shares its name is a crowd-pleaser that fails to influence eagerness amongst movie critics. After greater than 190,000 Highlanders rolled off supplier lots in 2015, Toyota's mid-size crossover SUV went into 2017 with a host of adjustments focused on pleasing the masses as well as experts alike.
Especially, all Highlanders, from the base $31,590 LE to the top-of-the-line $48,840 Highlander Crossbreed Limited Platinum, currently come typical with a pre-collision warning system with pedestrian discovery and automated emergency braking, plus lane-departure caution, lane-keeping help, adaptive cruise control, and automated high-beams. Our all-wheel-drive $43,184 Highlander XLE examination cars and truck also packed blind-spot monitoring, an attribute unavailable on the lower-level Highlander LE and also LE Plus.
Going along with the 2017 Highlander's numerous security systems is the current variant of Toyota's 3.5-liter V-6 engine. The six-cylinder is conventional on all but the base front-wheel-drive Highlander LE-- which continuouslies utilize a frail 185-hp inline-four-- and also integrates a host of modern innovations, consisting of a straight and also port fuel-injection system as well as an upgraded valvetrain that enables the engine to operate on the extra effective Atkinson cycle. Ranked at a healthy 295 horsepower and also 263 lb-ft of torque, the changed V-6 makes 25 even more horses as well as an extra 15 lb-ft compared with the previous system. Fuel economy is up, as well, with the front-wheel-drive 2017 Highlander V-6 gaining an EPA-rated 23 mpg integrated; all-wheel-drive designs attain 22 mpg. Both numbers mark a 2-mpg improvement over last year's Highlander and placed the crossover within 1 mpg of the four-cylinder Mazda CX-9's mixed fuel-economy figures.
Toyota's 2GR-FKS 6 is a gem of an engine that develops power almost all the method as much as its 6800-rpm redline. At the track, this Highlander shaved 0.3 2nd off of its predecessor's zero-to-60-mph as well as 30-to-50-mph times, hitting the marks in 7.0 and 3.8 secs, specifically. Regrettably, the 2017 Highlander's 5.6-second 50-to-70-mph passing away time was both sluggish for the course and virtually a second behind that of its forbear. Blame the new eight-speed automatic transmission's hesitancy to downshift. No matter, the modified Highlander's V-6 uses lots of grunt in the majority of real-world driving situations. Many thanks partially to our examination auto's automatic stop-start system, we handled a practical 21 mpg throughout our time with the crossover, 2 mpg much better than just what we obtained from a Mazda CX-9.
The Aspect of Crossover
If the 2017 Highlander's V-6 powertrain is the matching of Highlander's lovely Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos RamÃrez (played by Sean Connery), then the crossover's overhauled outside design belongs to the movie's good-looking yet forgettable protagonist, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert). New front and rear fascias, upgraded headlamps, and an appealing set of LED taillights give the Highlander a more natural, SUV-like look. But we still would not place it quite on the exact same degree of beauty as the butch Dodge Durango or the hot CX-9.
Unlike the exterior, the Highlander's interior has actually been left largely untouched. Toyota did include 4 even more USB ports, bringing the overall to five-- 3 in front and also 2 in the rear. The cabin features a variety of handy storage space nooks, consisting of a rack that covers the lower control panel as well as a massive center-console bin that can suit nearly a cubic foot of various things. Ergonomic mistakes include difficult-to-grip temperature level handles for the climate-control system and a touchscreen that's also far away from the chauffeur.
While base-level LE and also LE Plus Highlanders feature a basic second-row bench seat, the XLE, SE, Limited, and Limited Platinum grades include captain's chairs in the center. (The bench seat is a no-cost choice on the XLE, Limited, and Limited Platinum.) Space is plentiful in the 2nd row, but we discovered that our seven-passenger test cars and truck's pail seats were installed as well reduced for optimum convenience. Still, the Highlander's moving as well as reclining second-row chairs resembled a pair of La-Z-Boy reclining chairs compared to the slim and flimsy 60/40 split-folding third-row bench. Legroom in the wayback is simply 27.7 inches, a full six inches fewer than just what the Volkswagen Atlas's rearmost row deals. If you regularly haul sufficient passengers to merit regular use the 3rd row, think about the Atlas, a Honda Pilot, or a Ford Flex.
Darkness of an SUV
In spite of the Highlander's carlike unibody building and construction and reduced step-in height, this mid-size crossover's dealing with reminds us of an old-fashioned body-on-frame SUV, as its softly sprung suspension allows extreme body roll in turns. On the bonus side, the suspension soaks up roadway abnormalities with nary a shudder, as well as the electrically aided guiding is relatively fast as well as generally well heavy.
At 4560 pounds, our all-wheel-drive Highlander examination auto was no light-weight, and the excess mass made itself known when applying the brakes, as the Toyota needed 181 feet of tarmac to stop from 70 mph-- 11 feet greater than a 161-pound-lighter all-wheel-drive GMC Acadia Denali.
With an as-tested price of $43,184, our Toasted Walnut Pearl Highlander XLE showed off $3704 in options. Of that tally, four-wheel drive includes $1460 and brings vestigial mud flaps, hill-descent control, and also a display setting within the 4.2-inch gauge-cluster screen that reveals torque distribution among the Highlander's four wheels. An $1810 rear-seat home entertainment system was the most costly alternative, while $434 purchased flooring mats and body-side moldings. Criterion things included navigation, a distance trick with push-button start, and a sunroof, in addition to previously mentioned attributes such as a blind-spot monitoring system and also leather-trimmed first- as well as second-row seats (Toyota cushions the 3rd row in plastic).
While the Highlander's lifeless handling and also cramped third row remain to suppress our interest for the Indiana-built crossover, the upgraded 2017 Highlander's lengthy listing of standard security as well as ease features, extra powerful and also fuel-efficient V-6 engine, and also boosted outside designing will certainly continuously draw in hoards of customers searching for a comfortable as well as fairly valued mid-size crossover SUV.