Wonder if rollout will get pushed into 2021 rather than late this year. Wife and I loved our Sienna besides a noisy interior (feel like it was a combo of the run-flats and just poor sound-proofing). But oh man there was so much space!
> That’s a drop of 53 horsepower compared with the outgoing Sienna’s 3.5-liter V-6, but the tradeoff is an estimated combined EPA fuel economy rating of up to 33 mpg—a significant 12-mpg improvement.
So it may be even slower now for the extra MPG Wild it is just as stated in the article.
I think the styling direction is better executed on the new Venza. Looks a lot more modern and more elegant. The Sienna reminds me too much of the Avalon TRD, which just makes no sense.
Agree that the Venza looks better. I’m actually confused as to why the Venza wasn’t turned into a Lexus. The interior, to my eye, is quite luxurious, and the equipment (like the sound system and the electrochromatic sunroof… I’m sure some of that is optional) is very impressive.
Toyota seems to be (slightly) toning down some of the more questionable design elements w/ their recent introductions. My hope is that the restraint somehow spreads to the Lexus line… ::sigh::
Oh, the new Sienna is based on the mostly Asian-sold Toyota Alphard… it’s awesome… to be driven in interior space is so luxurious and you have recliner captains chairs…
What’s crazy is that the the Sienna was the quickest of Toyotas mass market base cars for a long time (I don’t consider Avalon a mass market car?).
It’s only for 2020 that all Highlanders get the V6 which matches the base Sienna’s performance. Of course I have rented plenty of minivans for family trips and seemingly ever driver complains about how slow and under powered they are compared to cars that actually are objectively slower.
Which is to say, mind as well have impressive MPG numbers since people are gonna think minivans are slow regardless of actual performance.