The Toyota Highlander is again for the 2024 mannequin 12 months, and the automaker is making a couple of adjustments. For starters, the bottom trim is gone, as is the Bronze Version trim—although the latter has been changed by a brand new, darker Nightshade trim.

The lack of the L trim will make the largest distinction to the lineup when it comes to pricing. Final 12 months, the bare-bones trim began at $36,420, and since there isn’t any equal for 2024, the lineup begins with the better-equipped LE trim, which has an MSRP of $39,120 (costs don’t embody $1,395 vacation spot cost). Though that’s a rise of simply $300 over the identical mannequin in 2023, it signifies that the bottom Highlander now prices $2,700 extra to get into than it did final 12 months.

The excellent news for Highlander consumers is that the mannequin’s particular version trim is now cheaper than it was final 12 months. Gone is the Bronze Version, changed by the Nightshade version. Out there on the LE and XLE variants of the Highlander hybrid, it provides a contact of darkness to the lineup, and begins at $41,720.

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Patrons will likely be provided a selection of colours that features Cement, Wind Chill Pearl, Midnight Black, or Ruby Flare Pearl. No matter paint, the bundle comes outfitted with black 18-inch, five-spoke wheels, a black grille, black mirror caps, black door handles, black rear badging, a black rear spoiler, and a black shark fin antenna. In XLE trim, the gear bundle additionally blacks out the roof rails.

Inside, the Nightshade trim gives black cloth trimmed seats for the LE fashions, or black two-tone Softex-trimmed seats with distinctive embossed cloth inserts and silver accent stitching within the XLE fashions.

The latter mannequin additionally comes commonplace with heated entrance seats, a 10-way adjustable driver’s seat, and captains chairs within the second row. Each fashions include an eight-inch touchscreen with wi-fi Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as commonplace. Prospects who go for the XLE mannequin can select the bigger 12.3-inch touchscreen, although.

The Nightshade trim is barely obtainable on Highlander fashions outfitted with Toyota’s hybrid powertrain. It combines a 2.5-liter, four-cylinder engine with two electrical motor-generators that collectively make 243 hp (181 kW/246 PS) and return an estimated 36 MPG (6.5 L/100 km) mixed.

Alternatively, consumers can go for the gas-only 2.4-liter inline 4, which makes 265 hp (197 kW/268 PS) however returns solely 25 MPG mixed (9.4 L/100 km). Each choices are unchanged from the 2023 mannequin 12 months.

What’s new is the hands-free energy liftgate comfort spec, which is now commonplace on all XLE and XSE fashions. Final 12 months, it was solely commonplace on the Restricted and Platinum grades.