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2024 Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid Max Review - Yeah, It Is That Good

The Truth About Cars

God knows I’m a big proponent of the minivan. But minivans have been in a massive decline ever since someone - that mythical someone - decided they were uncool. Toyota soldiers on as one of the few remaining automakers still carrying the minivan torch, now as an all-hybrid lineup. Yep, a turbo atop a hybrid.

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2023 Toyota Highlander Review - Choices

The Truth About Cars

Minivans are better than crossovers. In a roughly similar package, a minivan gives a family more space for both people and cargo than a three-row crossover, as the floor is lower. They’ve recently brought us the Grand Highlander and the Sienna minivan is a shining monument to soccer parents past and future.

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Toyota to increase Highlander output, including hybrid and exports, in Indiana

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Toyota will increase production of the Highlander mid-size SUV in late 2013 at the company’s Princeton, Ind. Hybrid and export versions will be included. The company will invest about $400 million to support global demand for the Highlander, which will no longer be built in Japan by late 2013.

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Toyota confirms second 3-row electric SUV for US production

Baua Electric

A report from earlier this month pegged one of those EVs as a fully electric Toyota Highlander EV —with potential Lexus TZ sibling. It also makes the Lexus TX, which is offered in standard, hybrid, and TX 550h+ plug-in hybrid variants. The company emphasizes that this announcement comes in addition to the recent $1.3

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Road Test: 2021 Toyota Sienna Hybrid

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All-New, All-Hybrid Family-Friendly Minivan. Toyota long ago made a commitment to hybrids, with the Prius being the most successful result of the company’s commitment to combining electricity and gasoline. Toyota and its upmarket Lexus division have 16 hybrid models, making the combined nameplates the leader in hybrid offerings.

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Honda in moderation transferring from hybrids to EVs

Baua Electric

Pilot XL: The untouched Pilot is a sturdy participant within the three-row department, however it lacks the longer wheelbase model introduced via its major rival, the Toyota Highlander. A bigger Pilot XL variant may debut in the second one part of 2025 to compete with the untouched Toyota Elegant Highlander, which is 201.4

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EVs start to go into Toyota’s wide, increasing lineup

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Magnificent Highlander: The bigger three-row crossover started to appear in U.S. Highlander: Toyota’s smaller three-row immense crossover gets a reengineering in 2025. Venza: The hybrid-only midsize crossover gets a midcycle freshening within the first part of 2024 and a reengineering in 2026.