November 3, 2024

Byrdr Automotive

Car and Comfort

2021 Toyota Highlander Review, Ratings, Specs, Prices, and Photos

There’s a new 2021 Toyota Highlander a few-row crossover out there. Perhaps you’ve seen it on the streets, intersections, driveways, parking a lot, strip malls, actual malls, or anyplace else with a paved area and men and women?

The household hauler may perhaps as nicely be regular concern in the suburbs and subdivisions all over the nation together with an Instant Pot and Nextdoor membership card. Welcome to the community, here’s your Costco card. 

This year the Highlander adds an edgier XSE variation that adds a very little aggro to its curb appeal—new bumpers, blacked out badges, big twenty-inch wheels, and stiffer suspension can do that. 

Evaluate carries on beneath

The 2021 Highlander receives a 6.8 for now, just before security is factored in. After it is, we count on that amount to increase. (Read through much more about how we amount cars.)

In addition to the new Highlander XSE, Toyota offers the a few-row crossover in L, LE, XLE, Restricted, and Platinum configurations. The Highlander Hybrid, which we propose, is made available in each individual trim besides L and XSE. Entrance-wheel push is regular on most versions, and all-wheel push is accessible on each individual trim besides Restricted and Platinum, where by it’s regular. 

The new Highlander breaks some of the more mature versions’ moderate awkwardness. The big crossover does not conceal its sizing extremely nicely, but it cuts a much more interesting gap in the wind many thanks to a shaplier snout and soaring physique line. 

Under the hoods of most Highlanders is a 295-horsepower V-6 that drives an 8-pace automated and the entrance or all four wheels. It is much more entertaining than it has any correct to be, and the XSE tightens the crossover up much more than the relaxation of the bunch. 

Our decide on is the Highlander Hybrid, which utilizes an inline-4 and electrical motor to deliver 35 mpg put together, in accordance to the EPA. That’s amazing for a seven- or eight-passenger automobile, and it’s nonetheless as entertaining to push.

Driveability is not the initially rationale to buy a Highlander, of course—space is. Up to eight can snuggle up within the Highlander rather comfortably, and the initially two rows have much more than 40 inches of leg room. The 3rd row is most effective for tiny small children or from time to time, tiny older people, and the second row can slide forward a few inches dependent on mood. 

At the rear of the 3rd row, the Highlander hauls up to 16 cubic toes of cargo, which expands to much more than 84 cubes with the second and 3rd rows folded. 

Every single Highlander receives automated unexpected emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, energetic lane control and blind-place displays. 

In addition to that, even foundation Highlanders get 18-inch wheels, cloth upholstery, an 8.-inch touchscreen with smartphone compatibility, and seats for up to eight for about $35,000. Best Highlander Platinums crest much more than $fifty,000 but present twenty-inch wheels, top quality audio, a 12.three-inch touchscreen, leather-based upholstery, and much more. They are almost government limos for 12-year olds.