Toyota Motors has announced their year-end sales totals for 2011. For the first time ever, the 2011 Toyota Sienna was the best selling minivan in the US. Overall, Toyota is slightly down this year with about a 6% drop over last year, but some divisions are regions are doing well. For example, the 2011 Toyota Sienna is up over 13% from last year selling several thousand more units in 2011 than in 2010. Read on →
According to Toyota, the 2011 and 2012 Toyota Sienna has a safety recall stemming from the wrong information being printed on the vehicles placard regarding the tire selection and rims. The information that is cited incorrectly regards “vehicle capacity weight as the rated load for the combination of cargo and occupants.” Toyota has issued a fix for this and will be mailing customers the right placard and will revise the owner manual. Read on →
The Toyota Sienna is a very popular minivan. In fact, it’s been one of the best selling minivans for the past decade and regularly ranks among the top 3 in sales. The newest addition to the Sienna family is no exception. The 2011 ‘swagger wagon’ Sienna has won a few awards and some notoriety because of it’s good handling, low maintenance costs, and overall value. Read on →
If there was ever a reason to own a new Toyota Sienna, other than for the swag appeal, it would be for it’s dependability. JD Power’s recognizes the 2011 Toyota Sienna as the top minivan in the class and gives it the highest ratings for each of their grading categories. Below are the results for the 2011 JD Power’s Vehicle Dependability Study.
2011 Toyota Sienna JD Power’s Ratings:
- Overall Dependability = 5 Stars
- Powertrain Dependability = 5 Stars
- Body & Interior Dependability = 5 Stars
- Feature & Accessory Dependability = 5 Stars
You can read the full details of the results as well as compare other minivans at JD Power’s 2011 results.
I’m a minivan guy. I don’t own one and I don’t want one, but in my prior career I helped design Chrysler’s second-gen minivan, and that exercise involved a whole lot of benchmarking and voice-of-the-customer research. That experience sticks with me when I do minivan comparisons like the one we ran last December, and I still stand by our finishing order. But because this was one of those rare holiday seasons that had the families from both sides of our household visiting over two weeks, I reckoned a real-world rematch of the top-finishing Honda Odyssey and Toyota Sienna might be in order. Read on →
