2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Platinum Review

Many features like wireless charging, heated and cooled front seats, heated steering wheel and so much more.brbr

Hello folks welcome to sherwood park toyota located at 31 auto mall road in sherwood park alberta canada today i’m going to be showing you this new toyota highlander platinum hybrid now the most suitable features on this platinum hybrid is its panoramic roof you have your heated and cooled front seats along with your 360 degree backup camera now i’m going to go

Through a couple more features on the inside and outside of the vehicle just to get you better familiar with this new toyota highlander hybrid platinum let’s get started now a couple of the exterior features that you will see on this hybrid platinum is its daytime running lights you also have your fog lamps and then if you take a closer look just at the front

Grille you’re going to see your front-facing camera for the 360-degree backup camera along with your parking sensors and over on the side you have the 20 inch aluminum alloy wheels now one of the nice things that you can do to actually actually accessorize your highlanders add on running boards you have the integrated signal lamps with your foldable mirrors

And heated mirrors on the inside of the mirror you’re going to see your blind spot mounting indicator now with that indicator it’ll actually light up just so there is another vehicle right beside you roof rack and the color we’re going to be taking a look at today is opulent amber now taking a closer look just at the front dash as well as the front seats you

Have your brown leather interior with your power driver seat with lumbar support over on the left hand side you have your auto high beams with your view for the 360 degree backup camera heated steering wheel window wiper de-icer power lift gate release seat memory controls mirror controls window locks power locks and wood controls now a couple of the controls

You’ll see here on the steering wheel include your scroll function bluetooth connectivity volume control voice recognition lane departure alert cruise control mode select and seek function it does offer the push button start so you have to do is put your foot on the brake hit the push button and we’ll start up for you automatically now taking a closer look just

At the multi informational display you’ll see a couple of different features on here so scrolling through if we take a closer look you have your fuel economy on here with your eco score and your digital speedometer and you can also scroll through your driving support audio as well as your all-wheel drive system safety status energy monitor tire pressure monitoring

Settings menu you’ll find the lane departure alert pre-collision system blind spot monitoring on and off parking sensors on off rear cross traffic alert and a couple of other additional features as well you’ll finish with your messages menu and as you can see it has an exterior temperature gauge located on there with a digital clock and then if you take a look just

Up front here this is actually a screen that you’ll find as you if you can actually see it right there it’s actually going to show you your speedometer there and so it makes things a little bit easier for you especially at nighttime and then it also has your lane departure alert on there as well now if you take a closer look just add to your center dash as well as

The touch panel display you’ll see a couple of different features on there so as you can see you have your try screen view here which will show you your navigation as well as your audio and you have climbing controls on there as well now the nice thing is that you can actually change sides for that just in case uh you’re more focused on driving and your passenger

Can actually go through the controls for you it can actually touch on your climate controls as well as your seat controls for your heated seats and cooled side you also have the audio controls through here as well as your trip info and a couple of other additional features as well now if we go inside the menu screen you’re gonna see your destination audio phone

As well as couple of other additional features now with the apps menu it’s part of the antutu app suite so as long as you have it on your phone you can use such apps as the slacker app which will sorry allows you to stream your music from your phone onto the touch panel display you can also check on local fuel prices on the latest sports scores just depending

What your preferences are now it is compatible with apple carplay as well as android auto and if you take a look down below here you have your temperature control settings with your heated seat controls and cooled seat sides with three different settings depending on how hot or how cool you like it you have your hazard lights and you have a little shelf here

Where you can place smaller items your passenger will also have a smaller shelf as well and then you can slick a cord through the bottom here and connect to your usb or power outlets it’s matted to an automatic transmission as you can see you have your drive mode with sport normal eco and then you have your traction control on off with your ev mode and trail

Taking a look just at the top here you do have your auto dimming rear view mirror with your integrated garage door controls and you also have the additional um view up here with the camera which i’ll show you later on here in the video where it actually is located to make things a little easier for you especially when you’re driving down the road and you need to

See exactly how much room you have behind you and somebody that’s following behind you you have the sos safe connect with the panoramic moon roof controls light controls and sunglass case holder if we take a closer look now just at the back of camera as you can see i have that nice 360 degree view and you can also change up the backup camera view to a more dynamic

View or the traditional backup camera view you’re used to now if you put it into drive and you hit that view button it’ll show you a front-end view of the vehicle as well but you need to make sure that you actually have your parking sensors turned on so if you go inside your settings menu and hit the parking sensors on and off that way it’ll show you a nice front

End view of the vehicle which makes things a little bit easier for you especially when you’re in underground parking now if you want you can just turn this off as well and you also have an auto feature as well the nice thing with the auto feature is if you’re driving and you’re in underground parking it’ll actually come up with this screen first anything under

10 kilometers an hour will actually go back to the previous screen you’re on now if you hit the view button that’s just located on your driver’s side here when you’re in park it’ll show you a nice 360 degree view up close in a more aerial view as well to make things a little bit easier for you especially if you have kids who like to leave objects around your

Vehicle that way you can see if there’s any obstructions in your way before you pull out of the driveway in the morning you can go into the settings menu you can also change up the color for yourself as well depending on what you actually got and then when you’re all finished up just hit the view button once more and it will go back to the previous screen you

Were on finally we’ll be taking a look to rear cargo area as well as your tailgate now located on your rear bumper you’re going to see your parking sensors just located right across on the back of the tailgate as you can see you have two different cameras here one is for the mirror and this is one for your backup camera and with the power tailgate all you have

To do is push on the button once and it will open up for you automatically now for the third row you have a 60 40 split so depending on what your needs were you can have one of them up or both of them up you have second row captain seats but they’re also heated captain seats as well so not only does your front passenger get to enjoy heated seats but so does your

Second row now if you take a look underneath the floor you’ll find some under the floor storage space with your jack and toolkit as well this is where you’ll access your spare tire which is located underneath your rear bumper the other nice thing is that you can actually adjust the height for yourself because it’s an adjustable power tailgate so all you have to

Do is hold down the button for approximately two seconds the height you’d like it at it’ll beep a couple of times and when you close it and open it again it’ll open up to this height however if you want to reset the height for yourself hold down the button for more than four seconds it’ll be up several times and when you close it and open it again it’ll open up

To the maximum height a couple of uses for that power tailgate is if you’re a little bit shorter or if your garage a little bit lower you can prevent the back of the tailgate from being damaged now as you can see i actually stopped it part way and you can do so by using the kick assist feature that way you can open up the tailgate without having to actually hit

The button on the back of the tailgate to make things a little bit easier for you especially when you have your hands full of grocery bags or the kids sports bags so you just want to make sure you kick underneath the tailgate there and then it will close and open for you automatically thank you so much folks watching this video today if you have any questions

Please visit us we’re located at 31 auto mall road in sherwood park alberta canada phone number is 780-410-2455 get us by email once again folks thank you so much for watching this video today if you have any comments or any additional questions please leave them in the comment section located down below other than that makes you have a great day and i hope to see you next time

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2021 Toyota Highlander Hybrid Platinum Review By Sherwood Park Toyota