Toyota Avalon Hybrid

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The issue concerns improperly manufactured occupant classification system sensors that may cause airbags not to deploy in certain crashes.

If you still dig cruising around town in a big, floaty land yacht, the 2021 Avalon may just be your all-around best option — the hybrid variant in particular.

There aren’t many big, comfortable family sedans that can match the 2021 Avalon Hybrid’s spacious interior, comfortable accommodations and excellent gas mileage.

Expect to see more hybrid powertrains from Toyota in 2021 as the automaker continues its commitment to more fuel-efficient vehicles.

Toyota’s flagship Avalon sedan is getting all-wheel drive for the 2021 model year — but it’s limiting that system to tamer, four-cylinder gas-engine models.

Approximately 44,000 model-year 2019-20 Lexus and Toyota cars and SUVs are being recalled for their engine blocks.

Approximately 2.9 million Toyota Corollas, Matrixes, Avalons and Avalon Hybrids are being recalled for their airbag electronic control units.

Toyota and its luxury arm, Lexus, have extended the battery warranties offered for the brands’ hybrid vehicles to 10 years or 150,000 miles of driving, whichever comes first.