Available solely with a complete hybrid powertrain, the Highlander – at the side of the D-segment RAV4, the C-segment C-HR and the drawing close B-segment Yaris Cross – is the latest addition to Toyota’s European SUV type line-up.
Benefitting from Toyota’s GA-Ok platform, the Highlander combines the entire Toyota SUV attributes of convenience, driveability and protection with hybrid powertrain low emissions, gasoline potency and clever All-Wheel Drive, area on call for and a 2-tonne towing capability.
Design and Packaging
Highlander is 4950 mm lengthy with hanging 20″ alloy wheels, with swish, dynamic and complex styling of a top class city SUV.
On board, the inner has been designed to supply the entire practicality, sturdiness and space-on-demand anticipated of a 7-seater SUV. The Highlander Hybrid is a real 7-seater – the 180 mm sliding vary of the second-row seating making sure spacious 3rd row lodging for 2 adults, in addition to simple ingress-egress.
Accessed by means of a kick-sensor operated energy tailgate the 658-litre boot area and with further underfloor garage could also be dramatically expanded by means of the absolutely flat folding of each the 3rd and moment row seating, bringing the burden capability as much as 1,909 litres.
Available in a collection of Black or Graphite color schemes, the inner boasts complete garage compartments during the cabin, complimented by means of energy USB sockets within the first and moment row seating spaces.
Premium apparatus ranges come with a 12.3-inch centre console multimedia show with satellite tv for pc navigation, a head-up show, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wi-fi telephone charging, seat air flow and a switchable virtual rear-view replicate which presentations a large rear symbol with out the interruption of seat headrest or different occupants.
Driving Dynamics
The Highlander’s 4th era complete hybrid powertrain combines a 2.5-litre Atkinson cycle petrol engine with entrance and rear electrical motors -the rear motor equipping Toyota’s SUV with AWD-i (All-Wheel Drive-intelligent)- and a strong Nickel-Metal Hydride gadget battery situated beneath the second-row seats.
A Drive Mode Select transfer permits the motive force to choose a collection of eco, customary, game and path riding modes. All 4 modes could also be used when the car is working within the separately-switchable EV mode.
The use of an acoustic windscreen and entrance glazing, and the adoption of roof, sprint and ground silencers, and wheel arch and loadspace liners equip the Highlander with a notable quiet cabin atmosphere, reinforcing the inherently clean, quiet riding traits of the entire hybrid powertrain.
The Highlander’s GA-Ok platform is complemented by means of a light-weight and high-rigidity bodyshell and with a low centre of gravity, offering the brand new SUV with nimble dealing with and relaxed dual carriageway cruising traits.
Safety
The new Highlander Hybrid is supplied with newest ‘Toyota Safety Sense’, a suite of lively protection applied sciences designed to assist save you or mitigate collisions throughout a variety of site visitors scenarios.
The Highlander’s Toyota Safety Sense package deal comprises Pre-Collision System (PCS) with lively steer help to keep away from collision, with pedestrian detection day and evening, and bicycle detection all through the day, Full Range Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC), ACC with Road Sign Assist (RSA), Lane Tracing Assist (LTA), Lane Departure Alert (LDA), Automatic High Beam (AHB) and Road Sign Assist (RSA).