Senin, 04 September 2017
Capsule Review 2015 Toyota Sienna AWD
Why carmakers bother? Toyota considered as an example. Sienna sales in 2014 reached their h ighest level since 07, but instead of representing just under 17% of all sales of American vans, from Sienna market climbed to 22.4%, and 25 % over the past three months.
• USD As-tested price: $ 47,495
• Power: 266 @ 60 rpm
• torque: 245 @ 4700 rpm
• EPA city / highway fuel economy: 16/23 mpg
The party has not as many participants as there ten years, but the music continues to play. And because so many B-list customers abandoned, it is much easier for the remaining characters are large, big stars.
Standing out from the pack still requires a measure of non-compliance, however. Chrysler twins have their seat StowNGo and pricing, value-oriented. Kia recently plumbed the depths of their style of bag of tricks to release a catchy Sedona with its own remarkable interior configuration. Honda Odysse y sets the bar high for the dynamic and efficient car-like. Nissan, well, the quest has essentially been rejected by North American consumers. The real minivan Mazda 5, will soon be leaving. And Sienna?
Refreshed for model year 2015 and lent to us for a week by Toyota Canada, Toyota Sienna offers its experience consumed as XLE AWD Limited with the package to CAD $ 50.523.
in the United States, this van is known as premium AWD Sienna Limited, and is priced at $ 47,495, including expenses. For those who are willing to give up a long list of features (HID headlamps, blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, front and rear park assist sonar, power liftgate, dual opening, wipers with rain sensor , navigation, pilot Speak Easy, dual view rear seat entertainment, leather seats, a proximity access, heated steering wheel), the Sienna lE can be made with all-wheel drive for less than 35 US $ 000.
lE or XLE and Limited, adding an extra pair of drive wheels at the Sienna is forcing some key sacrifices compared with four-wheel drive versions. There is no eighth place, no poufs in the second row, the runflat tires only, and official estimates fuel economy at 16 mpg city fall and 23 highway 18 and 25, respectively. We saw only 14.3 miles per gallon, but asterisks abound. Roads were snow-covered for much of the tour of Sienna, temperatures were well below freezing, there was a lot of city driving and very little time on the road, and the truck was fresh of factory flagrantly broken by the right foot of yours truly. The conditions were not conducive to the formation accurate forecasts fuel economy of the real world in the long term.
"Oh," you say, "the front-wheel drive tires and winter are fine." and yes its true. I was driving a couple of cars with four-wheel drive with snow tires during the same period, as well as an all-wheel drive Ford Escape all-season tires. The difference: the other vehicles, Escape included, need our driveway at least partially cleared to leave. In a city like Halifax, full of steep hills and slathered in ice, there was a level of dexterity required for other vehicles to get underway. Sienna was encumbered by such limitations.
Is a new Sienna buyer need all-wheel drive? No, but on the North Atlantic shores in a winter that has transformed completely terribly winter blow, AWD upgrade was remarkable in its effectiveness, especially because the system so instantly and imperceptibly mixed with power Bridgestone Blizzak appropriate wheel-rail.
On other counts, the Sienna is better than it was. Parents in the school parking lots continue to appreciate the leadership of feather-light, but the Sienna is much less barge as in conducting routine. Gone is much of the float that beset 2011-2014 Sienna, but while the van update (thanks to a rigid unibody with 142 points of additional welding, according to Toyota) is a senior manager, he has not the fineness of the Odyssey. Neither is his turn as firm fortunately the Sienna is also unflustered on rough roads that can reasonably be expected of any vehicle. Victory is mine, saith the wheelbase of 119 inches.
suspension noise makes its way too easily in the cabin, as the growl of the 3.5L, 266 horsepower V6 when under heavy gas. (Coupled with a smooth 6-speed automatic, it is a decent punchy engine, if that matters to the typical minivan buyer.) But overall, the Sienna is quiet memorably, helped by the driver Easy To speak which amplifies the voice of the driver for the rear occupants with the speakers, not so you can yell at your children more easily, but the volume as normal conversation can be maintained. It did not work as well here as in Highlander, however, neither the JBL audio system all that impressive. Blame acoustic minivan. There are a lot of vacant space to fill with high quality sound.
Space? Well yes. There is a part of that. rings volume of goods to 39.1 cubic feet. The third line is fine. The first two are the capacious as expected.
The second row is legendary.
No, the middle seats do not fold into the flo or, and for some it is the worst failure in history characteristics of the minivan. But they are not so heavy, and their range front / rear movement is a beautiful thing to see. Bring you child. Send child away.
We will be reviewing the new Kia Sedona before the end of winter. While it is easy to criticize what we perceive as a failed strategy Caravan suppressor FCA, it will be interesting to see what comes out of the plant in Windsor, Ontario next. This leaves two alternatives Japanese brand of top-selling, and the means by which you establish the leader of the class depends on the priorities. Available all-wheel drive and a second row can push the gargantuan Sienna in the winners circle for some, especially those who fight winter battles for three to five m onths. The driving fan whose modified lifestyle no longer agree with the S00 property will promote the driving behavior of the Odyssey.
Regardless, there can be little argument that these ,, the vast minivans versatile able (or should we say maxivans?) Offer more vehicle per dollar than any other type of car modern. You can choose to avoid adaptations $ 50K, but do not let it be a pox on the overall Sienna home.
Timothy Cain is the founder of GoodCarBadCar.net , who is obsessed with the free and frequent publication of US and Canadian sales figures auto.
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