Don’t new Toyotas usually debut at the top of their class?
Styling
The exterior styling of the new Highlander is better than the generic lines of the previous car, but it’s a little strange. Toyota is trying to create a unified truck look based off the Tundra’s aggressive appearance, but it doesn’t fit here any better than a 12-year-old boy wearing dad’s suit. The interior design is much better, with an attractive matte-finish black dash over tan plastic, although the sheen of the latter makes things look a little downgrade. The center stack features cartoonishly oversized knobs, but the titanium trim is pleasant, and overall this is a good looking, if not very fanciful, interior space.