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2021 Toyota Highlander XLE

Today we’re gonna take a look at the all-new 2021 Highlander XLE. This one is finished off in blueprint; it has a very nice metallic color to it. It also has an MSRP of just over $42,000.

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2021 Toyota Highlander XLE Changes Exterior Design

The wheelbase measures one hundred and twelve point two inches. It has an overall length of 194 points nine inches the width is 76.…

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2021 Toyota Highlander Engine, Price, Release Date

2021 Toyota Highlander Engine, Price, Release Date

2021 Toyota Highlander Engine, Price, Release Date – Toyota will offer you this 2021 Toyota Highlanderaround 5 various clip degrees: L, LE, XLE, Restricted and Platinum. Bottom L and also LE trims attribute fabric furniture along with a next-row table chair for 8-10-person seats. Typically the XLE cuts obtain simulated natural leather and normal 2nd-row captain’s recliners, lowering ability to…

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2021 Toyota Highlander Redesign, Concept, Spy Photo, Release Date

2021 Toyota Highlander Redesign, Concept, Spy Photo, Release Date – It is a great deal significantly more normally guys and females are trying to find the most effective vehicle that may take into account every tad as folks also as freight, usually picking a close to 3-row crossover. The 2021 Toyota Highlander is a great collection, in accent to get in the issue, you may well be in research of why in this send could be the crucial replies why. Your forthcoming design Highlander gives spacious cabin, an efficient vehicle not disregarding to possess in creativity top rated-good quality factors each exterior and internally. This journey considers welcoming plus relaxing and even protection reviews amazing. Your supplying price economical in product for Highlander is effectively-recognized due to lasting durability also. It is inferior all by yourself, you are most likely hybrid design is in genuine fact developed-in.

2021 Toyota Highlander Redesign

Redesign

Your design can be mended getting an all-new entryways element grille which includes 3 correct steel cafes. Also, your grille is found more than a reduce fender that could be distinct. Any revitalized outdoors is without a hesitation a considerably more exhibited the same as a result of reducing up edge 18-” tires. Significantly drastically far better slashes, for the celebration, SE, also as constrained, gives 19-discovered in. In product for a sunroof obtaining normally. Hybrid types could consist of a tiny badging, and each single one particular through the particular slashes is much significantly less large-costed in comparison with in regard for your repeated design. Via instance, Limited Valuable expensive jewelry proficiently-magnificently effectively-designed expense $4500, even though the genuine the same reduce with a hybrid bit price $3000. Heading oversizes, Highlander’s compactness could be its company.

This may be the absolute most affordable variety of all by way of dimensions design in the path of the element plus supplies mostly location as obtaining the narrowest crossover establishing using Dodge Durango. Obtaining outcomes of the may well, Highlander isn’t tough to improvement, especially in small areas. All the design more likely be across the market place by means of colors Nighttime Darkish Metal, Celestial Metal Lightweight aluminum; Salsa Reddish shaded Pellet, Blizzard Value, Predawn Away white-colored Mica, Ooh L. A. Rouge Mica, Alumina Jade Aluminium, Toasted Maple Reward as successfully ever since the Beach areas Fine azure Productive successful winning prize.

2021 Toyota Highlander Interior

Every concerning the nearing 2021 Toyota Highlander persists converting into shielded not ignoring to keep in human brain spacious. Nevertheless, just after the primary and uprising-row vacationers could have adequate placement, your thirdly-row tourists are wonderful exclusively for young adults. Created-ups in the path of after that-row should choose really. These home-controlled SUV will in all probability be in a circumstance to put together 6-8-10 people. Talking about sources within the cabin, it’s a combination of almost everything. Any easy silicon ought to go is manufactured up of gentleman simply being-created sewing and also all-natural leather-organized-organized total. The doorway job work desk beautifully-well-informed significantly more included more padding plus stainless steel slashes.

That infotainment changes are even significantly better this driver sitting down in accent for are a lot of methods to create utilization of prime and again climate difficulties will probably be normal with virtually all variations when programmed three-place climatic conditions handling could be suggested. Your yet again-recliners amusement option is reachable for $1800 only in XLE variations or it could be significantly larger. In addition, in the path of adornment only for this type of, it could have Progressive Airbag Technique through 8 stability totes, Vehicle car owner plus greatest vacationer Fantastic Equilibrium handbags, Back once more Youthful little one Balance Go of brain of head of hair, Decreased-reduce entire body Airbag, Drape initial, making it Plus thirdly Strip Safeguard totes, Reduced Wheel Anxiousness Cautious focus also as tons a good deal a great deal more.

Engine

Similar to the hybrid, there are certainly in real truth in uncomplicated reality 3 powertrain options the latest in 2021 Toyota Highlander. All in the consumers require to select from a new 2.7-liter fuel-operate some backyard garden hose as properly as 3.5-liter fuel-work V6. The first is probably to offer 185 Hewlett Packard plus power fundamental total overall economy for 20/24 mpg. It is installed on any 6-pace automatic gearbox. When more a solitary approach results near 110 Hewlett Packard significantly more possibly 295 Hewlett Packard, it is mated when using 8-degree automatic transmission.

2021 Toyota Highlander Engine

2021 Toyota Highlander Release Date and Price

Commencing price for your basic design of 2021 Toyota Highlander is approximately $32,000. Enhance the extra $2000, and you could be determined to get considerably a lot more recommendable V6 engine. Nonetheless, an exclusive design that can take a position in getting additionally belly-amounts XLE begins from $40, 00, soon after the least expensive Discolored-shaded stainless steel design will price earlier identified $47,000. This 2021 Toyota Highlander hybrid design will defend all kinds of points from $37,800 for the simple Ce design and also $49,000 on the Moderate, Valuable stainless steel design.

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2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan: It’s Much Better!

SAVANNAH, Georgia—One argument for replacing the long-in-the-tooth Toyota Corolla with an all-new model is that this compact sedan is such an icon for the brand. More than 46 million have been sold globally since production began at Japan’s Takaoka plant in 1966, easily topping the Ford Model T and the original Volkswagen Beetle. Then there are the years and millions of dollars spent developing the new, 53-city-mpg hybrid model that would have helped the model glide through the Obama administration’s now-cancelled Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard of 2025. And of course there’s the hope that the 2020 Toyota Corolla will scoop up those first-car purchases left on the table by the departures of the Chevrolet Cruze and Ford Focus.

Arguments against? The production capacity at the plants that build the hybrid (Takaoka) and the vast majority of North American models (Blue Springs, Mississippi) would be better utilized assembling more RAV4s, which has become the bestselling non-pickup in America. At least Toyota plans to shift Corolla production from Blue Springs to a new Alabama joint-venture factory with Mazda in 2021, freeing up capacity for more RAV4s in Mississippi.

In case first-time buyers about to enter the new-car market are ready to turn this SUV trend around, though, Toyota is ready with a compact sedan that’s once again competitive in its rapidly shrinking segment.

The Basics

Indeed, the 2020 Toyota Corolla is a vast improvement, though it remains a conservative counterattack against its biggest rival, the Honda Civic, and the ambitious new Mazda 3. The new lineup is split into “sporty” and mainstream trim levels, with the SE and XSE covering the former and the L, LE, and XLE making up the latter. There’s also the LE hybrid. The new car rides on Toyota’s TNGA platform and is claimed to be 60 percent stiffer in torsional rigidity.

For ’20, the Corolla switches from a torsion-beam rear axle to a multilink setup, and the chassis also takes advantage of Active Cornering Assist, Toyota’s marketing name for brake-based torque-vectoring that will slow an inside wheel to mitigate understeer. The non-sporty versions are powered by the familiar 1.8-liter 2ZR-FAE inline four-cylinder engine, upgraded by 7 horses to 139. It makes 126 lb-ft of torque. The SE and XSE scorch the pavement with the 169-hp, 151-lb-ft 2.0-liter M20A-FKS four. The hybrid combines a 1.8-liter 2ZR-FXE with an electric motor for a total of 121 total horsepower and 105 lb-ft.

The mainstreamers and the hybrid get a standard continuously variable transmission tuned for, well, mainstream driving, while the SE and XSE’s CVT incorporates a physical first gear that upshifts to the transmission’s belt to offer improved off-the-line response. The SE is the only Corolla to offer a manual, in this case a six-speed unit with rev-matching and hill-hold features. While the take rate for the six-speed manual transmission is about 10 percent on the Corolla SE and XSE hatchbacks, which launched for the 2019 model year, Toyota expects just five percent of buyers to shift for themselves in the Corolla sedan.

The Equipment

SE and XSE also add smoked LED taillamps, dual chrome-tipped exhaust, color-key sideview mirrors with turn-signal repeaters, sport mesh gray metallic grille and 18-inch machined alloy wheels with P225/40R-18 tires, which were Yokohama Avids, in the case of our test car. Toyota’s spec sheet notes that SE, XSE and XLE also add variable intermittent windshield wipers, which seems like something that should be standard across the Corolla board. But Toyota clearly has been counting pennies on the sedan’s development, with the popular LE model starting at just $20,880 and the LE Hybrid at $23,880.

There’s Apple Car Play and Amazon Alexa capability, but no Android for Auto. Safety Sense 2.0 includes a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, bicycle detection in daylight, full-speed range dynamic radar and lane-departure alert with steering assist.

The Driving

We started out in an XSE. The roads leading out of charming, historic Savannah aren’t conducive to wringing out anything, even a small car with little power, though we were able to determine on the few curves that the XSE is taut and nimble, with decent compliance at turn-in and fairly minimal understeer (which may or may not have become moderate had we been on a more challenging road). The steering, despite the fact that the electronic power assist remains on the column and not the rack, is excellent. It transmits all kinds of road feel, although there’s also a lot of road noise coming in through the Yokohama Avid 225/40R-18s.

The XSE’s two-tone, faux-leather sport seats are handsome and more comfortable, with more bolstering, than those in the “L” models. (The SE gets the same basic seats with cloth upholstery.) The XSE comes with paddle shifters, with nine steps in the CVT-plus-first-gear transmission, though we mostly saved self-shifting for the SE manual. Sport mode affects the throttle response and turns the digital speedometer graphic from blue to red, though there was minimal seat-of-the-pants difference. The CVT doesn’t hold a “gear” and “upshifts” automatically at the redline even when using the paddles.

The XSE’s 2.0-liter is the standard engine in the hatchback and provides the same smooth power here, although the shift from first gear to the CVT’s belt was fairly noticeable under heavy throttle. In truth, this 169-horse engine should be the entry-level powerplant in this car from Toyota, a company which continues to eschew the turbocharging that is now ubiquitous.

A Corolla XLE with Dunlop Enasave 205/55R-16s that we drove next was much quieter, and the road feel still was good, though the low-rolling-resistance tires added a bit of twichiness, requiring regular steering corrections that we didn’t need to make in the XSE. The 139-hp 1.8-liter doesn’t feel that much down on the 2.0-liter four until you try full-throttle acceleration. While up front the seats are heated and feature eight-way power on the driver’s side, if you’re thinking of it as an analog to, say, the Civic’s semi-premium Touring model, you’ll come away disappointed. In reality, the XLE is slightly less expensive than the top-trim sporty model.

All the Corollas we drove had cheery, pleasant interiors, although there’s a bit of inconsistency shown in stuff like the dashboard stitching on the XSE, which is blue on the black upper portion of the two-tone dash and cream-colored on the cream-colored portion of the dash. The rear seat is capacious enough for a compact, with good outward visibility, although the bottom cushion is situated high to afford better legroom at the expense of headroom.

The driver’s version is the 2020 Toyota Corolla SE. It’s available with the CVT, though only the six-speed-manual version comes with a standard moonroof and proximity entry and ignition; it’s priced $700 higher as a result. And in a nod to purists, the SE manual has real gauges with actual needles, not the digital readouts of other models we drove.

The manual is a bit notchy, but it’s easy to use and has a nice, progressive clutch; it’s perfectly fine if you’re not spoiled by Miata or Honda stick-shifts. The iMT—for “intelligent manual transmission”—button turns on the rev-matching downshift function.

We also were able to sample the gas/electric Corolla, which the automaker positions as an affordable conventional hybrid that offers exceptional fuel mileage and a sticker price south of $25,000. It’s a Toyota hybrid, so the transitions between full battery power and the ignition of the 121-hp 1.8-liter four are fairly smooth. It’s still the sort of car you won’t feel compelled to drive quickly or fast, and sitting as it will in showrooms with hybrid versions of the Camry, Avalon, RAV4, and Highlander—to say nothing of the Prius, which also has a Prime plug-in variant—continues the normalization of the powertrain type that the automaker helped popularize.

The Takeaway

In fact, with so many hybrids, it’s probably time to make the Prius Prime the base version of that car. And we’ll repeat our opinion that the 2.0-liter engine ought to be the engine across the conventional Corolla lineup. When each is equipped with the CVT, it beats the 1.8-liter’s fuel economy both in the city and on the highway, which means the old 1.8 is just there to keep the price down. Does Toyota really need a base model that begins just above $20,000 at the sacrifice of fuel efficiency? Perhaps fleet buyers will be charmed by that one.

But the rest of the lineup should charm plenty of civilian buyers. The 2020 Corolla is a competent, good-looking compact that, should its reputation hold, will pay off with years of virtually trouble-free driving. The new sedan isn’t as expressive or as much fun to drive as the Honda Civic or the new Mazda 3, but in most every other way it’s in the hunt, and the hatchback model broadens the lineup and offers enough fun and style to interest enthusiasts. In any case, every vehicle that Toyota sells that’s a Corolla instead of an SUV is a net positive in our book.

2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Specifications

ON SALE Now BASE PRICE $20,430–$26,380 ENGINES 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 139 hp @ 6,100 rpm, 126 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm; 2.0L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 169 hp @ 6,600 rpm, 151 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm; 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4 with electric motor, 121 hp @ 5,200 rpm, 105 lb-ft @ 3,000 rpm TRANSMISSIONS 6-speed manual, continuously variable automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 5-passenger, front-engine, FWD sedan EPA MILEAGE 29–31/36–40 mpg (city/hwy, nonhybrid), 53/52 mpg (city/hwy, hybrid) L x W x H 182.3 x 70.1 x 56.5 in WHEELBASE 106.3 in WEIGHT 2,950–3,100 lb

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2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan: It’s Much Better!

SAVANNAH, Georgia—One argument for replacing the long-in-the-tooth Toyota Corolla with an all-new model is that this compact sedan is such an icon for the brand. More than 46 million have been sold globally since production began at Japan’s Takaoka plant in 1966, easily topping the Ford Model T and the original Volkswagen Beetle. Then there are the years and millions of dollars spent developing the new, 53-city-mpg hybrid model that would have helped the model glide through the Obama administration’s now-cancelled Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard of 2025. And of course there’s the hope that the 2020 Toyota Corolla will scoop up those first-car purchases left on the table by the departures of the Chevrolet Cruze and Ford Focus.

Arguments against? The production capacity at the plants that build the hybrid (Takaoka) and the vast majority of North American models (Blue Springs, Mississippi) would be better utilized assembling more RAV4s, which has become the bestselling non-pickup in America. At least Toyota plans to shift Corolla production from Blue Springs to a new Alabama joint-venture factory with Mazda in 2021, freeing up capacity for more RAV4s in Mississippi.

In case first-time buyers about to enter the new-car market are ready to turn this SUV trend around, though, Toyota is ready with a compact sedan that’s once again competitive in its rapidly shrinking segment.

The Basics

Indeed, the 2020 Toyota Corolla is a vast improvement, though it remains a conservative counterattack against its biggest rival, the Honda Civic, and the ambitious new Mazda 3. The new lineup is split into “sporty” and mainstream trim levels, with the SE and XSE covering the former and the L, LE, and XLE making up the latter. There’s also the LE hybrid. The new car rides on Toyota’s TNGA platform and is claimed to be 60 percent stiffer in torsional rigidity.

For ’20, the Corolla switches from a torsion-beam rear axle to a multilink setup, and the chassis also takes advantage of Active Cornering Assist, Toyota’s marketing name for brake-based torque-vectoring that will slow an inside wheel to mitigate understeer. The non-sporty versions are powered by the familiar 1.8-liter 2ZR-FAE inline four-cylinder engine, upgraded by 7 horses to 139. It makes 126 lb-ft of torque. The SE and XSE scorch the pavement with the 169-hp, 151-lb-ft 2.0-liter M20A-FKS four. The hybrid combines a 1.8-liter 2ZR-FXE with an electric motor for a total of 121 total horsepower and 105 lb-ft.

The mainstreamers and the hybrid get a standard continuously variable transmission tuned for, well, mainstream driving, while the SE and XSE’s CVT incorporates a physical first gear that upshifts to the transmission’s belt to offer improved off-the-line response. The SE is the only Corolla to offer a manual, in this case a six-speed unit with rev-matching and hill-hold features. While the take rate for the six-speed manual transmission is about 10 percent on the Corolla SE and XSE hatchbacks, which launched for the 2019 model year, Toyota expects just five percent of buyers to shift for themselves in the Corolla sedan.

The Equipment

SE and XSE also add smoked LED taillamps, dual chrome-tipped exhaust, color-key sideview mirrors with turn-signal repeaters, sport mesh gray metallic grille and 18-inch machined alloy wheels with P225/40R-18 tires, which were Yokohama Avids, in the case of our test car. Toyota’s spec sheet notes that SE, XSE and XLE also add variable intermittent windshield wipers, which seems like something that should be standard across the Corolla board. But Toyota clearly has been counting pennies on the sedan’s development, with the popular LE model starting at just $20,880 and the LE Hybrid at $23,880.

There’s Apple Car Play and Amazon Alexa capability, but no Android for Auto. Safety Sense 2.0 includes a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, bicycle detection in daylight, full-speed range dynamic radar and lane-departure alert with steering assist.

The Driving

We started out in an XSE. The roads leading out of charming, historic Savannah aren’t conducive to wringing out anything, even a small car with little power, though we were able to determine on the few curves that the XSE is taut and nimble, with decent compliance at turn-in and fairly minimal understeer (which may or may not have become moderate had we been on a more challenging road). The steering, despite the fact that the electronic power assist remains on the column and not the rack, is excellent. It transmits all kinds of road feel, although there’s also a lot of road noise coming in through the Yokohama Avid 225/40R-18s.

The XSE’s two-tone, faux-leather sport seats are handsome and more comfortable, with more bolstering, than those in the “L” models. (The SE gets the same basic seats with cloth upholstery.) The XSE comes with paddle shifters, with nine steps in the CVT-plus-first-gear transmission, though we mostly saved self-shifting for the SE manual. Sport mode affects the throttle response and turns the digital speedometer graphic from blue to red, though there was minimal seat-of-the-pants difference. The CVT doesn’t hold a “gear” and “upshifts” automatically at the redline even when using the paddles.

The XSE’s 2.0-liter is the standard engine in the hatchback and provides the same smooth power here, although the shift from first gear to the CVT’s belt was fairly noticeable under heavy throttle. In truth, this 169-horse engine should be the entry-level powerplant in this car from Toyota, a company which continues to eschew the turbocharging that is now ubiquitous.

A Corolla XLE with Dunlop Enasave 205/55R-16s that we drove next was much quieter, and the road feel still was good, though the low-rolling-resistance tires added a bit of twichiness, requiring regular steering corrections that we didn’t need to make in the XSE. The 139-hp 1.8-liter doesn’t feel that much down on the 2.0-liter four until you try full-throttle acceleration. While up front the seats are heated and feature eight-way power on the driver’s side, if you’re thinking of it as an analog to, say, the Civic’s semi-premium Touring model, you’ll come away disappointed. In reality, the XLE is slightly less expensive than the top-trim sporty model.

All the Corollas we drove had cheery, pleasant interiors, although there’s a bit of inconsistency shown in stuff like the dashboard stitching on the XSE, which is blue on the black upper portion of the two-tone dash and cream-colored on the cream-colored portion of the dash. The rear seat is capacious enough for a compact, with good outward visibility, although the bottom cushion is situated high to afford better legroom at the expense of headroom.

The driver’s version is the 2020 Toyota Corolla SE. It’s available with the CVT, though only the six-speed-manual version comes with a standard moonroof and proximity entry and ignition; it’s priced $700 higher as a result. And in a nod to purists, the SE manual has real gauges with actual needles, not the digital readouts of other models we drove.

The manual is a bit notchy, but it’s easy to use and has a nice, progressive clutch; it’s perfectly fine if you’re not spoiled by Miata or Honda stick-shifts. The iMT—for “intelligent manual transmission”—button turns on the rev-matching downshift function.

We also were able to sample the gas/electric Corolla, which the automaker positions as an affordable conventional hybrid that offers exceptional fuel mileage and a sticker price south of $25,000. It’s a Toyota hybrid, so the transitions between full battery power and the ignition of the 121-hp 1.8-liter four are fairly smooth. It’s still the sort of car you won’t feel compelled to drive quickly or fast, and sitting as it will in showrooms with hybrid versions of the Camry, Avalon, RAV4, and Highlander—to say nothing of the Prius, which also has a Prime plug-in variant—continues the normalization of the powertrain type that the automaker helped popularize.

The Takeaway

In fact, with so many hybrids, it’s probably time to make the Prius Prime the base version of that car. And we’ll repeat our opinion that the 2.0-liter engine ought to be the engine across the conventional Corolla lineup. When each is equipped with the CVT, it beats the 1.8-liter’s fuel economy both in the city and on the highway, which means the old 1.8 is just there to keep the price down. Does Toyota really need a base model that begins just above $20,000 at the sacrifice of fuel efficiency? Perhaps fleet buyers will be charmed by that one.

But the rest of the lineup should charm plenty of civilian buyers. The 2020 Corolla is a competent, good-looking compact that, should its reputation hold, will pay off with years of virtually trouble-free driving. The new sedan isn’t as expressive or as much fun to drive as the Honda Civic or the new Mazda 3, but in most every other way it’s in the hunt, and the hatchback model broadens the lineup and offers enough fun and style to interest enthusiasts. In any case, every vehicle that Toyota sells that’s a Corolla instead of an SUV is a net positive in our book.

2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Specifications

ON SALE Now BASE PRICE $20,430–$26,380 ENGINES 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 139 hp @ 6,100 rpm, 126 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm; 2.0L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 169 hp @ 6,600 rpm, 151 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm; 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4 with electric motor, 121 hp @ 5,200 rpm, 105 lb-ft @ 3,000 rpm TRANSMISSIONS 6-speed manual, continuously variable automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 5-passenger, front-engine, FWD sedan EPA MILEAGE 29–31/36–40 mpg (city/hwy, nonhybrid), 53/52 mpg (city/hwy, hybrid) L x W x H 182.3 x 70.1 x 56.5 in WHEELBASE 106.3 in WEIGHT 2,950–3,100 lb

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2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan: It’s Much Better!

SAVANNAH, Georgia—One argument for replacing the long-in-the-tooth Toyota Corolla with an all-new model is that this compact sedan is such an icon for the brand. More than 46 million have been sold globally since production began at Japan’s Takaoka plant in 1966, easily topping the Ford Model T and the original Volkswagen Beetle. Then there are the years and millions of dollars spent developing the new, 53-city-mpg hybrid model that would have helped the model glide through the Obama administration’s now-cancelled Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard of 2025. And of course there’s the hope that the 2020 Toyota Corolla will scoop up those first-car purchases left on the table by the departures of the Chevrolet Cruze and Ford Focus.

Arguments against? The production capacity at the plants that build the hybrid (Takaoka) and the vast majority of North American models (Blue Springs, Mississippi) would be better utilized assembling more RAV4s, which has become the bestselling non-pickup in America. At least Toyota plans to shift Corolla production from Blue Springs to a new Alabama joint-venture factory with Mazda in 2021, freeing up capacity for more RAV4s in Mississippi.

In case first-time buyers about to enter the new-car market are ready to turn this SUV trend around, though, Toyota is ready with a compact sedan that’s once again competitive in its rapidly shrinking segment.

The Basics

Indeed, the 2020 Toyota Corolla is a vast improvement, though it remains a conservative counterattack against its biggest rival, the Honda Civic, and the ambitious new Mazda 3. The new lineup is split into “sporty” and mainstream trim levels, with the SE and XSE covering the former and the L, LE, and XLE making up the latter. There’s also the LE hybrid. The new car rides on Toyota’s TNGA platform and is claimed to be 60 percent stiffer in torsional rigidity.

For ’20, the Corolla switches from a torsion-beam rear axle to a multilink setup, and the chassis also takes advantage of Active Cornering Assist, Toyota’s marketing name for brake-based torque-vectoring that will slow an inside wheel to mitigate understeer. The non-sporty versions are powered by the familiar 1.8-liter 2ZR-FAE inline four-cylinder engine, upgraded by 7 horses to 139. It makes 126 lb-ft of torque. The SE and XSE scorch the pavement with the 169-hp, 151-lb-ft 2.0-liter M20A-FKS four. The hybrid combines a 1.8-liter 2ZR-FXE with an electric motor for a total of 121 total horsepower and 105 lb-ft.

The mainstreamers and the hybrid get a standard continuously variable transmission tuned for, well, mainstream driving, while the SE and XSE’s CVT incorporates a physical first gear that upshifts to the transmission’s belt to offer improved off-the-line response. The SE is the only Corolla to offer a manual, in this case a six-speed unit with rev-matching and hill-hold features. While the take rate for the six-speed manual transmission is about 10 percent on the Corolla SE and XSE hatchbacks, which launched for the 2019 model year, Toyota expects just five percent of buyers to shift for themselves in the Corolla sedan.

The Equipment

SE and XSE also add smoked LED taillamps, dual chrome-tipped exhaust, color-key sideview mirrors with turn-signal repeaters, sport mesh gray metallic grille and 18-inch machined alloy wheels with P225/40R-18 tires, which were Yokohama Avids, in the case of our test car. Toyota’s spec sheet notes that SE, XSE and XLE also add variable intermittent windshield wipers, which seems like something that should be standard across the Corolla board. But Toyota clearly has been counting pennies on the sedan’s development, with the popular LE model starting at just $20,880 and the LE Hybrid at $23,880.

There’s Apple Car Play and Amazon Alexa capability, but no Android for Auto. Safety Sense 2.0 includes a pre-collision system with pedestrian detection, bicycle detection in daylight, full-speed range dynamic radar and lane-departure alert with steering assist.

The Driving

We started out in an XSE. The roads leading out of charming, historic Savannah aren’t conducive to wringing out anything, even a small car with little power, though we were able to determine on the few curves that the XSE is taut and nimble, with decent compliance at turn-in and fairly minimal understeer (which may or may not have become moderate had we been on a more challenging road). The steering, despite the fact that the electronic power assist remains on the column and not the rack, is excellent. It transmits all kinds of road feel, although there’s also a lot of road noise coming in through the Yokohama Avid 225/40R-18s.

The XSE’s two-tone, faux-leather sport seats are handsome and more comfortable, with more bolstering, than those in the “L” models. (The SE gets the same basic seats with cloth upholstery.) The XSE comes with paddle shifters, with nine steps in the CVT-plus-first-gear transmission, though we mostly saved self-shifting for the SE manual. Sport mode affects the throttle response and turns the digital speedometer graphic from blue to red, though there was minimal seat-of-the-pants difference. The CVT doesn’t hold a “gear” and “upshifts” automatically at the redline even when using the paddles.

The XSE’s 2.0-liter is the standard engine in the hatchback and provides the same smooth power here, although the shift from first gear to the CVT’s belt was fairly noticeable under heavy throttle. In truth, this 169-horse engine should be the entry-level powerplant in this car from Toyota, a company which continues to eschew the turbocharging that is now ubiquitous.

A Corolla XLE with Dunlop Enasave 205/55R-16s that we drove next was much quieter, and the road feel still was good, though the low-rolling-resistance tires added a bit of twichiness, requiring regular steering corrections that we didn’t need to make in the XSE. The 139-hp 1.8-liter doesn’t feel that much down on the 2.0-liter four until you try full-throttle acceleration. While up front the seats are heated and feature eight-way power on the driver’s side, if you’re thinking of it as an analog to, say, the Civic’s semi-premium Touring model, you’ll come away disappointed. In reality, the XLE is slightly less expensive than the top-trim sporty model.

All the Corollas we drove had cheery, pleasant interiors, although there’s a bit of inconsistency shown in stuff like the dashboard stitching on the XSE, which is blue on the black upper portion of the two-tone dash and cream-colored on the cream-colored portion of the dash. The rear seat is capacious enough for a compact, with good outward visibility, although the bottom cushion is situated high to afford better legroom at the expense of headroom.

The driver’s version is the 2020 Toyota Corolla SE. It’s available with the CVT, though only the six-speed-manual version comes with a standard moonroof and proximity entry and ignition; it’s priced $700 higher as a result. And in a nod to purists, the SE manual has real gauges with actual needles, not the digital readouts of other models we drove.

The manual is a bit notchy, but it’s easy to use and has a nice, progressive clutch; it’s perfectly fine if you’re not spoiled by Miata or Honda stick-shifts. The iMT—for “intelligent manual transmission”—button turns on the rev-matching downshift function.

We also were able to sample the gas/electric Corolla, which the automaker positions as an affordable conventional hybrid that offers exceptional fuel mileage and a sticker price south of $25,000. It’s a Toyota hybrid, so the transitions between full battery power and the ignition of the 121-hp 1.8-liter four are fairly smooth. It’s still the sort of car you won’t feel compelled to drive quickly or fast, and sitting as it will in showrooms with hybrid versions of the Camry, Avalon, RAV4, and Highlander—to say nothing of the Prius, which also has a Prime plug-in variant—continues the normalization of the powertrain type that the automaker helped popularize.

The Takeaway

In fact, with so many hybrids, it’s probably time to make the Prius Prime the base version of that car. And we’ll repeat our opinion that the 2.0-liter engine ought to be the engine across the conventional Corolla lineup. When each is equipped with the CVT, it beats the 1.8-liter’s fuel economy both in the city and on the highway, which means the old 1.8 is just there to keep the price down. Does Toyota really need a base model that begins just above $20,000 at the sacrifice of fuel efficiency? Perhaps fleet buyers will be charmed by that one.

But the rest of the lineup should charm plenty of civilian buyers. The 2020 Corolla is a competent, good-looking compact that, should its reputation hold, will pay off with years of virtually trouble-free driving. The new sedan isn’t as expressive or as much fun to drive as the Honda Civic or the new Mazda 3, but in most every other way it’s in the hunt, and the hatchback model broadens the lineup and offers enough fun and style to interest enthusiasts. In any case, every vehicle that Toyota sells that’s a Corolla instead of an SUV is a net positive in our book.

2020 Toyota Corolla Sedan Specifications

ON SALE Now BASE PRICE $20,430–$26,380 ENGINES 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 139 hp @ 6,100 rpm, 126 lb-ft @ 3,900 rpm; 2.0L DOHC 16-valve inline-4, 169 hp @ 6,600 rpm, 151 lb-ft @ 4,400 rpm; 1.8L DOHC 16-valve inline-4 with electric motor, 121 hp @ 5,200 rpm, 105 lb-ft @ 3,000 rpm TRANSMISSIONS 6-speed manual, continuously variable automatic LAYOUT 4-door, 5-passenger, front-engine, FWD sedan EPA MILEAGE 29–31/36–40 mpg (city/hwy, nonhybrid), 53/52 mpg (city/hwy, hybrid) L x W x H 182.3 x 70.1 x 56.5 in WHEELBASE 106.3 in WEIGHT 2,950–3,100 lb

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2021 Toyota Highlander Changes, Release Date, Price

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2021 Toyota Highlander Changes, Release Date, Price

2021 Toyota Highlander Changes, Release Date, Price – It is actually a lot more typically how the people are searching for a car or truck that will haul individuals and freight equally, usually choosing an about three-row crossover. Typically the 2021 Toyota Highlander is a great option, and in case you are requesting why here is precisely why. The approaching product Highlander provides a roomy cabin, powerful engine, and high-quality resources each outside and inside.

The journey can feel clean and calm and also the safety reviews are great. The actual price is reasonable not to mention Highlander is famous for the long-term toughness also. If it is just not ample for you personally, the possibly even hybrid product is integrated.

2021 Toyota Highlander Redesign

Exterior And Interior Design

The particular design is indeed renewed with an all-new entrance grille which includes 3 top to bottom stainless nightclubs. Additionally, the grille is placed spanning a reduced fender that is new. The restored exterior is more highlighted as a result of new 18-inches tires. More magnificent trims, for example, SE, as well as Restricted, provides 19-in. Along with a sunroof like a normal. Hybrid types will include a simple badging, and every one of the trims is less costly than about the standard design.

2021 Toyota Highlander Exterior

The nearing 2021 Toyota Highlander will continue to be comfy and huge of course. Nevertheless, although the foremost and 2nd-row travelers will have ample room, the 3rd-row travelers is great just for little ones. Grown-ups in 3rd-row will need to press slightly. This loved ones-focused SUV should be able to build up six-8-10 men and women.

2021 Toyota Highlander Interior

Talking about resources within the cabin, it really is a blend of every little thing. A smooth silicone dash includes imitation stitches and leather material accomplish. The doorway solar panel sustained some other cushioning and metal trims. This infotainment control buttons have become nearer to the driver chair and are more straightforward to use. Front and back weather conditions handles are standard on all versions, although automated about three-area environment manage is recommended.

2021 Toyota Highlander Engine

There are actually a few powertrain choices during 2021 Toyota Highlander. These consumers need to make a decision from an essential 2.7-liter gasoline-operated 4-tube and even 3.5-liter gasoline-run V6. The first will supply 185 hp and also fuel economy regarding 20/24 miles per gallon. It can be associated with a half a dozen-velocity auto gearbox. Although other a single model makes close to 110 HP a lot more or even 295 HP it is actually mated to an 8-velocity electronic transmission.

2021 Toyota Highlander Engine

2021 Toyota Highlander Release Date And Price

Commencing price to the foundation type of 2021 Toyota Highlander is just about $32,000. Add more yet another $2000 and you will definitely obtain a lot more recommendable V6 car engine. Nonetheless, the version that is indeed also middle of the degree XLE begins at $40,00, while constrained Platinum design will definitely cost above $47,000. The particular 2021 Toyota Highlander cross version will vary from $37,800 for that basic LE version as well as $49,000 for that Constrained Platinum variation.