This review is all about looks. Its a minivan. If you've decided to buy a minivan, you've generally already given up caring about looks.
For my the new 2011 is horrible given a feature they took away from the previous years. I bought a used 2009 after looking at a new 2011 because I want to put all three of my child seats in the middle row (as the primary of many seating configurations). The older model has the 8 seater option with three REAL seats. Each is a fully adjustable seat which can be added/removed independant of the other. Unfortunatly the 2011 has gone the way of Honda and gotten rid of the middle seat, and replaced it with an "insert" seat. Besides not being adjustable, or being able to off set it 6" further forward for mommy accesses to a baby, or using the offset to make it harder for kids to reach and fight with each other, the new "insert" seat doesn't have latch system. I would have paid more for my used 2009 Toyota than a new 2011. As it was, the 2009 was only about $6k cheaper similarly featured.
This review is all about looks. Its a minivan. If you've decided to buy a minivan, you've generally already given up caring about looks.
For my the new 2011 is horrible given a feature they took away from the previous years. I bought a used 2009 after looking at a new 2011 because I want to put all three of my child seats in the middle row (as the primary of many seating configurations). The older model has the 8 seater option with three REAL seats. Each is a fully adjustable seat which can be added/removed independant of the other. Unfortunatly the 2011 has gone the way of Honda and gotten rid of the middle seat, and replaced it with an "insert" seat. Besides not being adjustable, or being able to off set it 6" further forward for mommy accesses to a baby, or using the offset to make it harder for kids to reach and fight with each other, the new "insert" seat doesn't have latch system. I would have paid more for my used 2009 Toyota than a new 2011. As it was, the 2009 was only about $6k cheaper similarly featured.