Anyone have any experience with either and what do you think?
Was looking at different options for my wifes new car at the end of the year. Bang for the buck would be the Toyota Highlander because they are getting a full redesign for 2020 and my sales manager buddy says they will deal on them and the manufacturer will be doing incentives as well.
The Palisade and Telluride get really good reviews too and have some cool features. Just curious if they hold a candle to Toyota or not. At this point in life I just dont want the headache of having to fix anything and my wife has her options she likes instead of telling me we should have just spent the extra couple grand.
we have/had both in our family no issues with either one, very long warranty on both. 350k miles between 4 cars.
We only had 1 warranty issue ( head gasket ) at 96k miles and it was not a problem, other than that it was brakes, ties and oil changes
I would buy either again myself, but if price is close I would get the Toyota most likely, I think they get better mileage
Just saw Telluride last week, big , looks really nice.Subaru Ascent looks similar
I’ve been following the Telluride for a while. Read and watch all the reviews on it. Thing is awesome. Much larger and better equipped than the Highlander or Pilot.
I just had a Hyndai Elantra for a week as a rent a car and it was nice, lots of power. It has 3 different driving modes and lots of high teck stuff on it.:thumbsup:
I think I like the Telluride a little more then the Palisade and for 40k you can get a damn nice vehicle on either of them. Got a definite yes for a test drive on both of them from the ole lady. I think it will come down to dollars but it's definitely between highlander, Telluride, and Pasilade.
My wife has a Santa Fe, with the third row, that is about 4 years old. It's an impressive vehicle for the price. Nice details and pretty good performance. Our only issue has been a finish flaw that appears to be a factory issue that hasn't been handled yet. Mostly because the dealer is arguing that it's because of something we did. That may be a deal breaker for me down the road if they don't own it but finish warranties are always difficult regardless of the brand.
Does this have anything to do with it being the suitable product for the person spending their money on it? Does it make it the highest quality product dollar for dollar in its segment? Does it mean reliability and low cost of ownership?
I find it very strange that people think it's a patriotic thing to abandon the free market. Buy the inferior product because its patriotic? **** that... build a better product. That's the American way. The other is what communists do.
I was thinking about this. Let’s apply it to our own businesses.
Let’s say a company starts up in the US. They fly workers in from other countries to do carpentry. When people start hiring them, how would you feel? I wouldn’t like it. I’ll bet neither would you. But when you ask them about it, they bring up the lower quality carpenters.
If you think about, this is already happening.
Truthfully, this won’t affect me. It might affect my son.
I try to buy made in the USA, whenever I can. It’s not always the best. It’s rarely the cheapest.
I will say, Honda makes a really good engine. If you want to talk about quality, those engines are quality.
I’m out. A question was asked. I replied “buy one made in America”. Someone after that even posted about a foreign vehicle, made in America. Telluride?
Then things took a downward spin.
This type of thing isn’t for me. I’ll let others argue.
Imagine the sense of entitlement that comes with thinking someone should buy from you if you are producing the inferior product or service.
Oh, and almost every vehicle I’ve owned, aside from a Maxima, has been a General Motors truck. Silverado, Tahoe, Escalade. Have a ‘68 Mustang too. And until recently my wife drove a Dodge Dakota.
I get it. It is awesome to say you drive American made. I drive one of the most American made trucks in the country (Nissan Titan XD). I have no problem with that. None.
I usually look to Ford first since they didnt take the bailout too. Those things do matter to a lot of us. However, just like in business, if someone comes in offering an overwhelmingly better value than me from another country, that's on me, not the consumer.
I am never the least expensive, quite often much higher. I feel I am superior in quality you wont get from an immigrant because I have created a space for myself. If someone came in and started to challenge me I would question my own business practices, not the other business or the consumer. To me that seems a cheap way out to get business I havent earned.
It's the free market at work and I have zero doubt that Ford will step up its game. Just so happens we have to tell them that being American is not enough, we have to be better, not the same nationality. It is what has pushed our country forward for so long, knowing that someone is always nipping at our heels.
God bless America for always being willing to say, 'how do we get better'. And we consistently do. Free markets are awesome and America excels in them. We build the better mouse trap but first we (the consumer) have to be willing to say the mouse trap isnt good enough...
Let's argue the existence and merits of free markets in a world economy.
It creates trade disadvantages for mature economies (like ours).
And while we're at it, let's just continue to sell off (freely) our best businesses to visitors from certain countries where they can't even own land in their own country....just 99-year leases or whatever. Free market is our ticket to ruin..in that way. Cut 'em off.
This communist bull**** thinking has no place is this thread. Go move to North Korea if you want a closed economy...because if it wasn't for an open world market you would be whipping a donky's ass to get to work.
Telluride is a really nice vehicle, I'm in the market for a compact to mid sized SUV as my kid's seat can barely fit in my Nissan Juke. Keep us posted if you get it.
How free is a 'free market' when you're competing against people that are making 10 dollars a day, with no environmental laws, no workers compensation, backed by huge multi national corporations with basically unlimited amounts of capital to invest?
Timing chains are a problem with most cars now, I don't know of any non interfering engines anymore. At least Hyundai has a 100k mile warranty, my friends Canyon went at 65k. I had a Cobalt that went at 88k, every valve was bent. Chevy said "what a shame"
It always comes back to class warfare. If you've got the money to figure out how to exploit your labor force, you're going to do that.
Sad to say.
Anyway, I try to buy American or Union if I can. Ironically, this is why Toyota is way ahead of Ford in contention for my money right now.
Probably going to buy an American or Canadian built Toyota this month.
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