![]() We’d probably forgo spending $1415 on the system and just get a tablet to hang on the seatback. Parents were frustrated by the rear-seat entertainment screen’s lack of iPhone compatibility. Combined with the low fuel cost, this Sienna earned about as close to a perfect score as possible.īut despite all of this goodness, we did have some legitimate complaints. The one unscheduled stop turned out to be an issue we could have easily fixed had we noticed it: The seal on the driver’s-side sliding door-which, by the way, opens with a kick of the foot under the rocker panel-wasn’t seated properly and would interfere with the power-close function. The first five were covered under ToyotaCare’s umbrella of no-added-cost service, and the remaining three totaled just $500. There were eight trips to the dealer for routine maintenance at 5000-mile intervals. Our ownership experience is the kind every automaker hopes for when loaning us a long-termer. Big gusts move the sail-sided Sienna on the highway, but what minivan wouldn’t be affected similarly? But everyone agreed that the Sienna was great at moving people and things alike. Through all of those miles, there were the typical hybrid quibbles from an atypical hybrid bunch. ![]() It also moved new (re-)hire Greg Fink from Chicago to Ann Arbor on multiple trips. Staff editor Austin Irwin put a roof-top tent on it and used it as his mobile honeymoon suite. The Sienna traveled as far west as Washington State, as far south as Georgia, and as far east as Cape Cod and Maine. If that’s enough for you to eliminate the biannual chore of swapping tires, these tires are a strong option. The typical winter tire has lots of squirm that a sensitive driver can detect, but not these. We didn’t test the car on them in dry conditions, but drivers commented on how well the Sienna behaved on them. We had them on for about 15,000 miles, keeping them well into spring. This isn’t your typical winter tire in that it’s designed to be used year-round, but it still meets the traction requirements for a Three-Peak Mountain Snowflake designation. We put winter in quotes above because instead of ordering Blizzaks or Hakkapeliittas, we tried a set of Michelin CrossClimate 2s. But such is the life of a C/D long-term car. If we factor out all the miles we accumulated on our “winter” tires, we probably would have averaged 32 mpg. That fuel economy is incredible considering many of us drive as if Ann Arbor hosts daily sprint races. Our long-term 2018 Honda Odyssey returned 23 mpg. And no van from then could average 29 mpg over 40,000 miles. Limited is the lowest trim in which the color was available, and while it’s $1960 less than the Platinum, we felt that the Limited had everything we wanted: leather seats, sliding second-row captain’s chairs that shuffle rearward far enough to make Yao Ming smile, more USB outlets than a Delta Sky Club lounge, and a 245-hp hybrid powertrain consisting of a 2.5-liter inline-four, three electric motors, and a small traction battery.Īfter 40,000 miles, the Sienna lost a bit of the pep in its step, posting a 7.7-second 60-mph time, but that’s still quicker than minivans were 15 years ago. We might have gone for a lesser trim, but when we saw Cypress green on the options sheet, we knew that was the van for us. This all-wheel-drive Sienna Limited arrived back in May 2021, and it stickered for $51,885. Why was that? Simple: This is one highly evolved minivan. Well, despite that we have a parking lot filled with the likes of a BMW M3, a Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0, a Chevrolet Corvette, and a Ram 1500 TRX, a minivan-the terminally underappreciated automotive breed that new dads fear and cool moms look down on-was in fact the most popular. Would you ever believe that this green-literally, not figuratively-hybrid was the most popular car in our long-term fleet during its 12-month tenure? “No way,” you say. From the July/August 2022 issue of Car and Driver.
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