Brighter Change Coming for 2022 Toyota Highlander

Should have more ground clearance. This SUV has ground clearance like a sports car.

When is the Highlander coming out as a Plug In Hybrid??

Toyota's reliability and durability greatly save them and makes us blindfold ourselves and swallow their non-artistic clumsy, unpolished and not love at first sight styling (compare to Mazada if we confined to Asian vehicles). We end up with utility but not much owning any joy. Could have been if given the right company aesthetic styling philosophy instead of taking 'inspiration' from this and that usually a mechanical subject or adjectives and end up with chaotic lines in all sorts of direction then try to cover up with 'trims and lights', like you make an ugly face to begin in and then try to add makeup to make it pleasant. This Highlander is like a mutt. What can I say! Luckily, the Lexus RX350 is the worst example, second only to the Tesla PU!!

Yes, color, of course, very important to me. Some people only want their preferred color and just that but not realizing that may be they want to consider a car(as a shape) in that color, or like what color dress look better for our body shape and other fixed features like the car with 2 large black tires on each side, 'color' and sparklers of glasses and windshield, taillights, grills, etc. not unlike the your given eyes, lips, shape, etc. of one's face. Yes, the color changes the overall impression of the car and many do not realize, or also do not consider how the car in that color look after erasing the shiny look when new, what that combination of color, shape, tires, etc. is going to look when the car is a little dirty like 'when you have just got out of bed'!

The Highlander color choices, extremely limited and 'boring'. Of course, that is partly driven by focus groups(a few dozen guests) choosing among preciseness limited choices probably of boring choices presented by the designers and that is also not done on the actual vehicles. It is like choosing from a small fan deck at the paint store and wonder why the house or room turning out what you think you will get!! I never pick car colors with on paper, showrooms or the lot. I look out for that car on the street in real life to identify the right color on the street. Unfortunately, there is none for the Highlander. The best of the worse seems to be the light blue. No wonder that color is showing mostly in on brochures and ads. Anyway, back to focus group. You are scoring from unreal perceptions, and Its garbage in garbage out.

So, you look around the US streets, cars are becoming mostly in similar shades of silver/metallic grey, black, white/pearl, and occasion a what they think as break through color of brown, red/maroon, light or darker blue. The Highlander is doing exactly that even at the Platinum level. I wish to dough out 55k+ for an Ltd Platinum but ran out of choice of color. Look at the long line of Highlanders at a larger dealer and it is almost like a line up of black or black like and grey SUV's dotted by a pearl or the light blue. I had the hope on the whatever amber it is called and it shows a metallic darker brown online but one cannot trust that. In real, it was practically a metallic black with a very tiny hint of dark maroon under bright sunlight. WHAT IS THIS! Meaningless offering!!! Are all customers that 'color blind' or the manufacturer is thinking only about neutral colors for the out-of-lease resale value!

So, a different touch on the pearl?!! For XSE only. That is not change to get excited about?!

Thinking about that, the odd bright red leather seat for the XSE or beige faux leather, what kind of choice is that. Loud color vs calm color but fake leather are the only choices, in order to get a different front face plus other pimp trims to get out of the unfinished design look of regular Highlander to get a semi finished looking front face and some rear and side trimming, looking more like afterthoughts!!

Here I sit waiting for arrival of the 2020 HighLander, now still sitting and praying for a more pleasant 2023 face lift but recently more anticipation of Honda delivering a more livable looking Pilot in 2022 although lesser reliability.

Give me a plug-in Highlander capable of 50+ miles on a charge. You really want to increase sales? This is what we are looking for.

I'm just hoping they bring back the rear opening window that they took away with the 2020. It was the main reason I bought a used 2019 rather than a new 2020.

The rear-opening window was handy, especially if you install a wheelchair lift or bike rack on the hitch.

The color is ok, just another shade of white. The design however, reminds me of an angry looking dog. Sorry, Toyota. I drive a 2007 Highlander and it looks so much better than this one, in my opinion.

This article should have been written in a single line: The 2022 Highlander's Blizzard Pearl color will be replaced with Wind Chill Pearl.

The Highlander need to make the 3rd row wider and more comfortable for an adult.

I love that white and red together. I’m thinking I’ll trade in my 2011 v6 RAV4 for the 2022 highlander if I can get those colors.

That red interior is hideous. The only people buying that are people whose taste is only in their mouth.

The RAV4 is due for a refresh in 2022 since it came out in 2019. The Camry came out in 2018 and was refreshed in 2021. So following this 3 year cycle, the RAV4 should be refreshed in 2022.