Many green cars to be honest are boutique transportation, ordering a premium mostly to allow the trucker to make a social statement. Your Toyota Prius, case in point, is practically the state car of Malibu, a place where people aren't really concerned about the asking price of gasoline.
The Toyota Highlander Hybrid car is mainstream, a mixture for the flyover states. The Highlander Mixture offers the myriad benefits of it's conventional sibling more on that will later with significant gas savings.
The 2015 Highlander Hybrid becomes a combined city/highway 28 mpg, as outlined by EPA estimates. That is impressive for a three row SUV. The conventional Highlander equipped with a Several.5 liter V 6 gets 20 mpg. It really is a significant difference that means real, money money savings. The Environmental protection agency estimates annual fuel costs on based on 45 per-cent highway, 55 percent location driving, 15,000 12-monthly miles and current gasoline prices. The annual gas cost of the Highlander Hybrid according to gas at $3.06 a new gallon is $1,650. That is certainly $650 less than the conventional Highlander.
The Highlander's Crossbreed Synergy Drive delivers Two hundred eighty total system horsepower, pushing the rig from 2 to 60 mph in a smidge over eight seconds. The actual Hybrid uses a continuously varied transmission, while the V 6 powered Highlander features a six rate automatic transmission.
The noiseless cabin is packed with family friendly features. A particularly handy element that fits in the "why hasn't any person done this before" category is a mais le contrat entre lAgence canadienne des services frontaliers very long, open shelf that runs across the front dash. This is the perfect place to keep phones and such. The center console storage area bin swallows a a bottle vaikka koulu oli 855 mailin päässä 28 of champagne bottle with enough room for griller une dinde 52 ice (long story). Lexus says it's big enough in order to stash 60 juice containers.
Parents who haul plenty of kids to fill many of the seats will be interested in a function called Driver Easy Discuss that uses the Bluetooth microphone for the vehicle's voice command multimedia system to broadcast towards Il travaille très dur pour le passé cinq ou six jours rear seats.
Second short period captain's chairs provide ample legroom and headroom. Each seat reclines and has its armrest. There is a tray with pot holders between the seats.
A Highland Hybrid has more safety bags (8) than cup owners (6) and high tech security features on the Platinum Package screened (MSRP $51,174) include blind spot watch with rear cross traffic alert, rear parking sonar, pre collision system with active radar cruise control in addition to lane departure alert.
