Suarez™ Posted July 23, 2016 Posted July 23, 2016 Toyota’s old-man sedan ... who would have thought? A nice drive, relatively quick and it looks good, too. I think ‘Yota’s pulling a Hyundai here, getting on a roll with good products that aren’t completely boring to drive. This Avalon, though it seems a bit expensive, could offer sedan buyers everything they need. It’s a handsome car, many, many steps ahead of the stodgy old one. The gaping grille looks good with the chrome and it even has a little style with the curving front bars. That, plus the headlight treatment, gives it a very futuristic look, if you’re into that sort of thing. The overall shape looks slippery, good for those 40 mpg combined, and the rear is clean and bordering on elegant. The interior is a little boring, but thankfully it’s not beige. The touchscreen works as it should and the radio volume and tuning have big knobs, which is always a plus. The temperature control uses a less-intuitive Cadillac CUE-like slider, but it seems to work well enough. Sight lines are good out of the front and rear, and it seems like there’s a ton of space in back. It also hooked up to my iPhone immediately, a welcome change that's getting more and more common these days.
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