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Re: Toyota Highlander Owners 

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Wed, 30 Dec 20 5:07 AM | 33 view(s)
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I checked on my 2019 posts and saw we paid $29,500 for a $34,000 MSRP car. At the time, I was concerned that the new tariffs on Chinese goods would trickle through to Japanese cars. Looks like we may have been right since the MSRP on the 2021 model is $6,600 higher. Also, August may have been the right time to buy. I think it's near the end of the model year and most dealers have heavy discounts on their automobiles.

One of my complaints at the time was that Toyota put $99 speakers into a $34,000 car. I still feel that way. I like loud music, and I've been in cars that have fantastic sound. The Highlander LE isn't one of them. The more expensive model had substantially better speakers - but, if I remember correctly, its MSRP was about $5,000 more than the Highlander LE's. We already told you what some of the extra features of that more expensive model were. For us, they weren't worth it.

Here's a link to my August 2019 post: #msg-1094991




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Re: Toyota Highlander Owners
By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Wed, 30 Dec 20 4:28 AM 		Msg. 10409 of 58635

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Re: “WHY ? She wants to sit up higher. Yep. You can't make it up...”The Highlander is my wife's car, so I asked her. She said "I like it. I don't feel like I'm as low as in a sedan, and it's not as high as [De's] truck. I don't feel like I have to climb into it."

Okay, so that's what she says. Oddly enough, the one and only criticism I have of the car is that getting in on the driver's side is hard for me. I have to lean WAAAAY forward or my afro scrapes on the cross-bar over the door. Maybe that's because of how she adjusts the seat - I don't know, but she's a little thing who always sets the seat way forward.

The all-wheel drive is great. She's able to get around in the driveway even if there's six inches of snow.

We have had a problem twice with the gas cap hood freezing shut... to where it almost has to be pried open. The blame for that can be divided between freaky wet/cold weather and a design defect. It hasn't happened with our other cars and, both times, we did eventually get the hood to open. But it's an annoying thing to have happen when you're at a rural gas station late at night.

But we're very happy with the Highlander. I'd definitely buy it again. Very comfortable car.

We paid a hair less than $30,000 for our Highlander LE (the low end model)... thanks to the blessings of living in a sales tax free state. And we paid another $500 for a 5-year undercoat offered by the dealer. Remember that I'd just lost the transmission on the truck due to corrosion caused by road salt, so I was gung-ho on undercoating. I thought that was a good deal for 5 years of protection; an oil undercoat that lasts just one season is at least $100. I think that was in August, 2019 and the car we bought was indeed a 2019 model.

The "high end" Highlander, at the time, had heated seats, a sun roof, and some other frills that we didn't need. We flat-out didn't want the sun roof. I hear that they tend to leak.

A quick look online reveals 2021 Toyota Highlander LE SUV. MSRP:$40,608; Savings:$2,970; The price listed by our Toyota dealer:
$37,638.

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