Like the 1986 film Highlander, the Toyota SUV that offers its name is a group pleaser that neglects to motivate enthusiasm among commentators. After more than 190,000 Highlanders moved off merchant parcels a year ago, Toyota's moderate size hybrid SUV entered 2017 with a large group of changes went for fulfilling the majority and savants alike.
Remarkably, all Highlanders, from the base $31,590 LE to the highest point of-the-line $48,840 Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum, now come standard with a pre-impact cautioning framework with person on foot location and robotized crisis braking, in addition to path takeoff cautioning, path keeping help, versatile journey control, and programmed high-shafts. Our everything wheel-drive $43,184 Highlander XLE test auto additionally stuffed blind side observing, an element inaccessible on the lower-level Highlander LE and LE Plus.
Going with the 2017 Highlander's various security frameworks is the most recent variation of Toyota's 3.5-liter V-6 motor. The six-barrel is standard on everything except the base front-wheel-drive Highlander LE—which keeps on utilizing a weak 185-hp inline-four—and joins a large group of present day advances, including an immediate and port fuel-infusion framework and an overhauled valvetrain that enables the motor to keep running on the more effective Atkinson cycle. Appraised at a solid 295 strength and 263 lb-ft of torque, the amended V-6 makes 25 more horses and an extra 15 lb-ft contrasted and the past unit. Efficiency is up, as well, with the front-wheel-drive 2017 Highlander V-6 procuring an EPA-appraised 23 mpg joined; all-wheel-drive models accomplish 22 mpg. The two figures check a 2-mpg change over a year ago's Highlander and put the hybrid inside 1 mpg of the four-barrel Mazda CX-9's consolidated efficiency figures.
Toyota's 2GR-FKS six is a pearl of a motor that fabricates control as far as possible up to its 6800-rpm redline. At the track, this Highlander shaved 0.3 second off of its antecedent's zero-to-60-mph and 30-to-50-mph times, hitting the imprints in 7.0 and 3.8 seconds, separately. Shockingly, the 2017 Highlander's 5.6-second 50-to-70-mph sitting back was both moderate for the class and about a moment behind that of its forgo. Accuse the new eight-speed programmed transmission's aversion to downshift. Notwithstanding, the reconsidered Highlander's V-6 offers a lot of snort in most genuine driving circumstances. Much obliged to some extent to our test auto's programmed stop-begin framework, we dealt with a sensible 21 mpg amid our opportunity with the hybrid, 2 mpg superior to anything what we got from a Mazda CX-9.
The Element of Crossover
In the event that the 2017 Highlander's V-6 powertrain is what might as well be called Highlander's enchanting Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez (played via Sean Connery), at that point the hybrid's patched up outside plan is much the same as the film's great looking however forgettable hero, Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert). New front and back sashes, refreshed headlamps, and an appealing arrangement of LED taillights give the Highlander a more durable, SUV-like appearance. Be that as it may, regardless we wouldn't put it very on an indistinguishable level of engaging quality from the butch Dodge Durango or the shapely CX-9.
Dissimilar to the outside, the Highlander's inside has been left to a great extent untouched. Toyota added four more USB ports, conveying the aggregate to five—three in front and two in the back. The cockpit includes various helpful stockpiling alcoves, including a rack that traverses the lower dashboard and an enormous focus reassure canister that can oblige almost a cubic foot of different things. Ergonomic flaws incorporate hard to-grasp temperature handles for the atmosphere control framework and a touchscreen that is too far from the driver.
While base-level LE and LE Plus Highlanders accompany a standard second-push seat situate, the XLE, SE, Limited, and Limited Platinum grades accompany commander's seats in the center. (The seat situate is a no-taken a toll choice on the XLE, Limited, and Limited Platinum.) Space is ample in the second line, however we found that our seven-traveler test auto's basin seats were mounted too low for ideal solace. All things considered, the Highlander's sliding and leaning back second-push seats resembled a couple of La-Z-Boy chairs contrasted and the thin and shaky 60/40 split-collapsing third-push seat. Legroom in the wayback is only 27.7 inches, an entire six inches less than what the Volkswagen Atlas' rearmost column offers. On the off chance that you consistently pull enough travelers to justify visit utilization of the third line, think about the Atlas, a Honda Pilot, or a Ford Flex.
Shadow of a SUV
Despite the Highlander's carlike unibody development and low advance in tallness, this medium size hybrid's taking care of helps us to remember an out-dated body-on-outline SUV, as its delicately sprung suspension permits intemperate body come in turns. On the in addition to side, the suspension retains street anomalies with nary a shiver, and the electrically helped controlling is moderately fast and by and large all around weighted.
At 4560 pounds, our everything wheel-drive Highlander test auto was no lightweight, and the overabundance mass made itself known while applying the brakes, as the Toyota required 181 feet of landing area to prevent from 70 mph—11 feet more than a 161-pound-lighter all-wheel-drive GMC Acadia Denali.
With an as-tried cost of $43,184, our Toasted Walnut Pearl Highlander XLE wore $3704 in choices. Of that count, all-wheel drive includes $1460 and furthermore brings minimal mud folds, slope plummet control, and a show setting inside the 4.2-inch check bunch screen that shows torque circulation among the Highlander's four wheels. A $1810 raise situate excitement framework was the most costly alternative, while $434 purchased floor tangles and body-side moldings. Standard things included route, a nearness key with push-catch begin, and a sunroof, and previously mentioned highlights, for example, a blind side observing framework and cowhide trimmed first-and second-push seats (Toyota upholsters the third line in vinyl).
While the Highlander's inert taking care of and cramped third column keep on curbing our excitement for the Indiana-assembled hybrid, the refreshed 2017 Highlander's not insignificant rundown of standard security and accommodation highlights, all the more effective and fuel-proficient V-6 motor, and enhanced outside styling will keep on attracting crowds of customers searching for an agreeable and sensibly estimated average size hybrid SUV.
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