2018 Toyota Highlander XLE
Toyota Highlander Details
Automatic
V6, 3.5L
Predawn Gray Mica
FWD
Gasoline
116,461 Miles
Ash
G1250125A
5TDKZRFH0JS528894
Leather
XLE
Estimated Payment
$322 / month
About This 2018 Toyota Highlander
Equipment
This 2018 Toyota Highlander has automated speed control that adjusts to maintain a safe following distance, enhancing highway driving convenience. This unit keeps you comfortable with Auto Climate. The Toyota Highlander's Cross-Traffic Alert: Safeguarding you from unexpected traffic when reversing. It has a clean CARFAX vehicle history report. This vehicle enhances safety with a blind spot monitor, alerting drivers to potential dangers in adjacent lanes. Bluetooth technology is built into this 2018 Toyota Highlander , keeping your hands on the steering wheel and your focus on the road. The leather seats in this 2018 Toyota Highlander are a must for buyers looking for comfort, durability, and style. The installed navigation system will keep you on the right path. See what's behind you with the back up camera on this 1/2 ton suv. Set the temperature exactly where you are most comfortable in this Toyota Highlander. The fan speed and temperature will automatically adjust to maintain your preferred zone climate.
Additional Information
Your community driven Acura dealer serving Cowetta County and the Atlanta area. Offering import luxury sales, service and parts the 7th member of the 34 year McDaniels Auto Group is here to serve you!
This 2018 Toyota Highlander has automated speed control that adjusts to maintain a safe following distance, enhancing highway driving convenience. This unit keeps you comfortable with Auto Climate. The Toyota Highlander's Cross-Traffic Alert: Safeguarding you from unexpected traffic when reversing. It has a clean CARFAX vehicle history report. This vehicle enhances safety with a blind spot monitor, alerting drivers to potential dangers in adjacent lanes. Bluetooth technology is built into this 2018 Toyota Highlander , keeping your hands on the steering wheel and your focus on the road. The leather seats in this 2018 Toyota Highlander are a must for buyers looking for comfort, durability, and style. The installed navigation system will keep you on the right path. See what's behind you with the back up camera on this 1/2 ton suv. Set the temperature exactly where you are most comfortable in this Toyota Highlander. The fan speed and temperature will automatically adjust to maintain your preferred zone climate.
Additional Information
Your community driven Acura dealer serving Cowetta County and the Atlanta area. Offering import luxury sales, service and parts the 7th member of the 34 year McDaniels Auto Group is here to serve you!
Features & Options
- Toyota Safety Sense P forward collision mitigation
- Pre Collision System with Pedestrian Detection
- Rear mounted camera
- Lane Departure Alert (LDA) w/Steering Assist
- Adaptive cruise control
- Brake assist system
- Entune selective service internet access
- Cruise control with steering wheel mounted controls
- Power liftgate rear cargo door
- Integrated navigation system with voice activation
- Heated driver and front passenger seats
- Leather front seat upholstery
- Primary monitor touchscreen
- Fixed third-row seats
- Rear Cross-Traffic Alert (RCTA) collision warning
- First-row sliding and tilting glass sunroof with express open/close activation sunshade
- Driver seat power reclining
- lumbar support
- cushion extension
- cushion tilt
- fore/aft control and height adjustable control
- 3.5L V-6 port/direct injection
- DOHC
- VVT-iW/VVT-i variable valve control
- regular unleaded
- engine with 295HP
- Vehicle Sway Warning driver attention alert
- Smart Key with hands-free access and push button start
- Bluetooth wireless audio streaming
- Blind Spot Monitor w/Lane Change Assist
- Dual-zone front climate control
- Rear climate control system with separate controls
- Auto high-beam headlights
- Manual fold into floor third-row seat
- Immobilizer
- HD predictive traffic real-time traffic
- Bluetooth handsfree wireless device connectivity
- Entune App Suite smart device app link
- Entune external memory control
- Internet radio capability
- 5 USB ports
- Electronic stability control system
- Hill start assist
- Leather rear seat upholstery
- Flip-up rear windshield
- Automatic climate control
- Manual rear side window sunblinds
- LED brake lights
- Front fog lights
- Leather and metal-look steering wheel
- EasySpeak intercom for communication with rear passengers
- Real-time weather
- Manual rear child safety door locks
- Roof rails
- Heated driver and passenger side door mirrors
- Manual tilting steering wheel
- Manual telescopic steering wheel
- Auto stop-start engine
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2018 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Limited Platinum Review
I get asked all of the time: what do I recommend for a reasonably priced 3rd-row SUV? So, I figured it was a good time to see how one of the segment’s key players was holding up. This is the Toyota Highlander Hybrid.The Highlander is one of Toyota’s sales stars and after undergoing significant upgrades last year, moves into 2018 unchanged. A front-wheel drive, 4-cylinder Highlander LE carries an MSRP of about $32,000 but at the upper end there’s this model: the Hybrid Limited Platinum priced here at $49,749. But don’t worry; if you like the idea of getting 30mpg and can live with the more austere LE grade, you can get a Highlander Hybrid for a little over $38,000. All of these gasoline-electric Highlanders come standard with a second propulsion motor driving the rear wheels when needed – what Toyota refers to as all-wheel drive with intelligence. Unlike the gas model, the Hybrid’s AWD can’t be locked for low speed, off-road driving.
Since this current generation Highlander went on sale for the 2014 model year, the Hybrid has seen both a power and mpg bump. With total system output at 306 horsepower and an MPG rating of 29 city/27 highway, the Hybrid is the most fuel efficient and powerful Highlander.
It’s available with 8-passenger seating on lower trims but Limited and above come with 2nd row captain’s chairs. And a 3-row crossover earns its keep in here where parents want spaciousness and ease of use and kids want a place to charge their phone and a 3rd row that doesn’t suffocate.
The Highlander earns its highest marks back here with spacious slide and recline seats, climate control with heated seats, sunshades and a big glass roof overhead.
Toyota maximizes interior packaging giving up to 5 an easily accessible and comfortable space with some clever features and on this top dog model, a high level of mainstream luxury. There shouldn’t be any reason to complain back here but just in case, parents have a spy mirror to help dispense justice, further aided by the Driver Easy Speak feature that amplifies the driver’s voice and broadcasts it through the rear speakers. Because the Platinum model gets the panoramic moonroof the optional Blu-ray rear entertainment system is not available here.
Configuring the seats for cargo duty is also unencumbered, creating a large, flat load floor though at this trim level I think some power assistance is in order. I do like the built-in cubby for the cargo cover but there’s no motion activated liftgate.
The brown leather interior trim looks great and useful design features abound creating a welcome environment. It’s just too bad the infotainment hasn’t yet been upgraded to the new Entune system with Apple CarPlay. It’s not a bad setup – just a little dusty.
Once you start throwing around terms like ‘limited’ and ‘platinum’ and attach a $50,000 price tag you just can’t have things like non-led lighting, a non-height adjustable passenger seat, and hollow sounding doors.
The Platinum trim packs in the goodies like the bird’s eye view camera, ventilated seats, heated steering wheel, dynamic radar cruise control, puddle lamps with Highlander projection, 19” wheels, and rain sensing wipers. The exterior design also looks fresh though this toasted walnut pearl paint would likely be my last choice.
Once you’ve driven fully electric and plug-in hybrids, regular hybrids seem a little passé. There’s not much electric only driving here and though the powertrain is smooth for a hybrid it’s still a hybrid so the energy delivery just isn’t as satisfying - even if it is quicker - and the brakes can get grabby. But the low point of the Highlander’s controls is the steering that is completely detached. Now, all that being said it’s pleasant enough to drive, it’ll take 6 guests with ease, the ergonomics are solid, the JBL audio system sounds awesome, the cabin is eye-pleasing and there are lots of features. I’ve averaged 26mpg for the week which is notable. But do I feel like it’s a $50k vehicle? No.
The Hybrid still uses nickel metal and not lithium batteries while a 3.5-liter V6 and an electronic CVT handles gear shifts. It bests the gas-only Highlander model by 6mpg which will save the typical owner $400 per year. The price premium for the hybrid powertrain is about $1,700 so the math can make sense. A redesign is likely slated for 2020.