Top 5 Reviews and Videos of the Week: 2020 Toyota Highlander Has the High Ground This Week
It was disappointing but understandable when Toyota wasn’t able to participate in our recent 2020 3-Row SUV Challenge with the just-launched redesigned 2020 Highlander, so we used our recent time behind the wheel to compare the Highlander to its robust competition. We sent one of the judges from that Challenge, Cars.com reviewer Kelsey Mays, to take advantage of his encyclopedic knowledge of the class.
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One of the key differences between the Highlander and most of its competition is cargo space. While Toyota touts the smaller size of the Highlander as a selling point, it comes with a cost.
“I observed just 9.9 cubic feet behind the Highlander’s third row and 18.7 cubic feet behind the second row with the third row folded,” Mays reported, “both figures at or near the bottom of the group. In particular, the high cargo floor leading up to the second-row seatbacks limits usable height in the Highlander — also a problem in the Honda Pilot, which has equally tight confines. As such, you may need to fold the second-row seats more often to expand cargo space. Toyota does owners no favors in this regard, requiring as many as three steps to fold the seats if the armrests are out. The cargo area has no controls to release them remotely, an aid the Palisade and Telluride both offer.”
If you want to see more about the popular class of three-row SUVs, be sure to watch the 2020 3-Row SUV Challenge video, which came in second place in this past week’s top five most popular videos. You can see the results and hear from the judges themselves what they thought about each vehicle.
Check out the top five reviews and videos of the week below.
Top 5 Reviews
1. 2020 Toyota Highlander Review: More in Some Ways, Not in Others
2. 2020 Mazda CX-30 Review: Stylish Small SUV Right-Sized for U.S.
3. 2020 Lexus RX Review: Just What the Doctor Ordered
4. 2020 Subaru Outback Review: Punching Above Its Weight Class
5. 2020 Dodge Charger Scat Pack and Hellcat Widebody Review: Which to Buy?
Top 5 Videos
1. 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye: Drag-Strip Tested
3. 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Review
4. 2020 Land Rover Defender: First Impressions
5. 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8: First Impressions
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