Currently we are shopping to replace our 02 Honda Odyssey, we want to get something new to us before winter and figured that we might be able to get a decent deal around Black Friday. Anyhow we typically buy cars that are a year or two old with low mileage, which is very hard to find when you are talking about minivans. Saturday, we drove both the Odyssey and Sienna and they both have their pros and cons.
Anyhow we are leaning toward the Sienna XLE, the dealer that we visited had a number of low mileage 2015 Sienna’s, both FWD and AWD with between 7-10,000 miles that were used as loaner/rentals. The only issue was the FWD vans were the L model and the AWD vans were the LE model. Since they were L/LE models they were missing some of the equipment that we wanted, mainly the leather, heated seats, and the power liftgate. My wife isn’t a big leather fan so that is not a big deal to her, but she really wanted the power liftgate, is this something that could be added? Are there any other big differences between the Sienna LE and XLE?
I see the AWD Sienna has Bridgestone Turanza’s RFT tires on it, I have regular Turanza’s on my 2012 Subaru Legacy and they are the worst tires I have ever used in the snow. How are the Turanza’s on the AWD Sienna in the snow?
Lastly, is there anything specific I should be looking out for when test driving Sienna’s? Any know problems/issues?
Thank you all for your insights, I posted the same questions on the Sienna forum on Saturday and had 61 views without 1 response???
Anyhow we are leaning toward the Sienna XLE, the dealer that we visited had a number of low mileage 2015 Sienna’s, both FWD and AWD with between 7-10,000 miles that were used as loaner/rentals. The only issue was the FWD vans were the L model and the AWD vans were the LE model. Since they were L/LE models they were missing some of the equipment that we wanted, mainly the leather, heated seats, and the power liftgate. My wife isn’t a big leather fan so that is not a big deal to her, but she really wanted the power liftgate, is this something that could be added? Are there any other big differences between the Sienna LE and XLE?
I see the AWD Sienna has Bridgestone Turanza’s RFT tires on it, I have regular Turanza’s on my 2012 Subaru Legacy and they are the worst tires I have ever used in the snow. How are the Turanza’s on the AWD Sienna in the snow?
Lastly, is there anything specific I should be looking out for when test driving Sienna’s? Any know problems/issues?
Thank you all for your insights, I posted the same questions on the Sienna forum on Saturday and had 61 views without 1 response???