10 Biggest News Stories of the Week: Toyota Sienna Features Favorably, Ford F-150 Lightning Found
Parents constantly find themselves needing to keep their young ones entertained and fed, ensuring their safety and, perhaps most of all, cleaning up after them. For the 2025 model year, the updated Toyota Sienna adds family-focused features that address all three of these Sisyphean endeavors, and we tell you all about ’em in one of Cars.com’s most popular news stories of the past week.
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The Toyota Audio Multimedia system comes standard on all versions of the minivan, boasting improved graphics as well as a 12.3-inch display on all but the base trim level, and wireless smartphone connectivity for both iPhone and Android users is now standard, too. Also standard for the new model year is an advanced radar-sensor-based rear-seat reminder that detects movement in the second and third rows and sends alerts via varied noises, lights and smartphone alerts — all to ensure no child or pet is inadvertently left behind by a distracted parent rushing from commitment to commitment. The newly available FridgeBox, which comes with a freezer mode, offers easy access and holds roughly a six-pack of 20-ounce bottles of water (OK, soda), and the built-in vacuum cleaner reaches just about anywhere in the van you need to clean up Goldfish cracker crumbs or dry Cheerios.
For the full details of our up-close inspection of the 2025 Toyota Sienna, follow the link below to the No. 2 news story on this week’s countdown of most-read articles.
If it’s fuel savings over family-friendliness that you seek — or maybe some combination of the two — then you’re hardly alone, as evidenced by our roundup of the most-searched-for electric vehicles in the vast Cars.com database. According to our analytics, the five most sought-after EVs are Ford’s F-150 Lightning half-ton pickup truck and Mustang Mach-E compact SUV, the Kia EV9 mid-size SUV, and Chevrolet’s Equinox EV compact SUV and Blazer EV mid-size SUV. The starting prices for the click-generating cars on this list range from just under $42,000 to just over $65,000, while the median list prices as found on Cars.com range from just over 44 grand to just under 70 grand.
For much more on each of the most-searched EVs — including their respective starting and list prices — follow the link below to the No. 4 news story of the week.
Beyond all that, we’ve got headlines on the Toyota Grand Highlander, Lexus TX, Ford Ranger, Hyundai Santa Fe, Kia Telluride and much more — so don’t stop reading till the digits double. Here are the top 10 news stories Cars.com readers couldn’t get enough of in the past week:
1. Here Are the 11 Cheapest Electric Vehicles You Can Buy
2. 2025 Toyota Sienna Up Close: New Features for Your Family
3. Sales to Resume for 2024 Toyota Grand Highlander, Lexus TX After Airbags Forced Stop-Sale
4. Hot Sales and Lease Deals on Cars.com’s Most Searched EVs
5. Is the 2024 Ford Ranger Raptor a Good Pickup Truck? 4 Pros, 3 Cons
6. Is the 2024 Hyundai Santa Fe a Good SUV? 6 Pros, 2 Cons
7. How Well Does the Kia EV9 Handle Family Duty?
8. Which SUVs, Minivans and Sedans Have the Most Cargo Space?
9. 2025 Kia Telluride Gets New Standard Features, Priced From $37,585
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