Six Top Reasons to Choose Toyota for Your Next Family Vehicle
When it’s time to buy a family-friendly vehicle, a shiny new Toyota should definitely be at the top of your list. There are lots of important factors to consider, starting with safety, comfort, convenience and cost of ownership. Other factors you’ll want to consider are how much room you’ll need, how much you drive and what your family’s unique needs are. What kind of technology or infotainment features would be ideal? Do you travel with pets? Sporting equipment? Are you a family of weekend adventurers? Lots to consider, for sure. Happily, there’s likely a Toyota just right for you and maybe more than one.
Let’s take a look at six key reasons why a new Toyota is a great choice for your family:
Safety has always been a key part of Toyota’s DNA. Many new Toyota vehicles come equipped with a suite of Toyota Safety Sense features, designed to keep you and your passengers safe on the road. Most new models come with the following Toyota features including: Pre-Collision System with Pedestrian Detection, Dynamic Radar Cruise Control, Lane Departure Alert, Automatic High Beams, Lane Tracing Assist and Road Sign Assist. Many new Toyotas also come with a free trial of our Toyota Safety Connect services. Safety Connect includes an emergency assistance button, stolen vehicle locator, automatic collision notification and enhanced 24/7 Roadside Assistance. Toyota models also consistently receive high safety ratings from the two major authorities on assessing a vehicle’s safety: the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Toyota has a well-earned reputation for reliability and customer satisfaction. According to arecent article in Road & Track, the top five vehicles most likely to reach 250,000 miles are all Toyotas, with a sixth in the top ten. When it comes to reliability, according to the 2024 American Customer Satisfaction Index, Toyota scored 83 out of 100 possible points, tying for first place. People love their Toyotas! Just ask five-time Toyota owner Sean Ross, who told ThoughtFuel his story.
Toyota’s ability to bring reliable vehicles to the market is partly thanks to the Toyota Production System, which is a carefully calibrated manufacturing process based on 13 key pillars, including concepts like learning from mistakes and fostering teamwork. Every vehicle at each Toyota factory around the world undergoes thousands of rigorous checks to ensure top safety, performance, and quality – Toyota has demanding standards for each vehicle driving off its production line.
Innovative technology and family-friendly (and fun!) features. Every new Toyota model comes with a state-of-the-art infotainment system available on a range of different sized touchscreen displays. It’s such a great, easy-to-use system that Motor1.com recently ranked it as setting the standard for automotive infotainment, giving especially high marks to its smartphone aesthetic, crisp graphics and integrated Apple and Amazon Music. Apple CarPlay and Android Auto also come standard. Universal tablet holders, which hold phones, tablets or video players securely in place make entertaining back-seat audiences a breeze.
Great value and low maintenance costs. Rest assured that with regular maintenance, your new Toyota will be a good investment with terrific resale, not that you’ll ever want to let it go. Toyota has topped Kelley Blue Book’s Best Resale Value list eight times since 2014, including the last four years in a row. Keeping cost of ownership down can be easy, too. Keep regular maintenance costs predictable, and your vehicle in tip-top condition with a Toyota Prepaid Maintenance Plan, take steps to reduce fuel consumption, which helps reduce fuel costs, and give yourself peace of mind with Guaranteed Auto Protection, which can help protect you from out-of-pocket costs in the event of a total loss. Still not sure which Toyota is best for your budget? Check out our handy guide to determine which new Toyota you can afford.
Flexible financing and leasing options. Whether you choose to lease or buy your new Toyota, you’ve got plenty of options. When you lease a car, you pay a monthly fee to use the car for a specific number of miles during a specific amount of time. You will need to agree to the number of miles at the beginning of your lease. Monthly lease payments will likely be lower than monthly purchase payments, according to Consumer Reports, because you will mainly be paying for the vehicle’s depreciation, not for ownership of the vehicle itself. When most people buy a car, they finance most of its purchase price. Experian reports that some 80 percent of new car purchases were financed in 2022. This may mean making a down payment and then making monthly payments for the duration of the loan. Common car loan lengths are 48, 60, 72, or even 84 months.
Toyota Financial Services (TFS) wants to make sure you choose the type of financing that works best for you. Here’s a simple quiz you take to help you choose whether leasing or buying is best for your family, and here’s an in-depth look at leasing vs. buying we’ve created to help you make your choice.
We’ve got a great lineup of family-friendly vehicles to choose from. Whether you need room for the whole team or just your second grader and her furry BFF, Toyota’s got you covered with an exciting lineup of hybrid, electric and fuel-efficient vehicles that cater to your needs. The Toyota Sienna is a spacious minivan seating up to eight people. Its tech features are a mix of fun (Blu-Ray rear-seat entertainment display) and practical (built-in intercom system so you can easily talk to the folks in the third row without yelling). The Toyota Highlander Hybrid seats seven (its XLE model seats up to eight) and its estimated combined highway MPG rating is 35. A more compact choice, still seating five, is the RAV4, available in conventional, hybrid and plug-in hybrid models. With over eight inches of ground clearance, RAV4 is great for families of weekend adventurers who find themselves exploring off-road trails and pathways. Smaller families might prefer a stylish sedan like the Camry. A six-way adjustable driver’s seat is standard in the LE, and lumbar support comes with the Limited model, so you can stay comfortable no matter how many hours you spend shuttling children to their activities and fuel up less frequently with its up to 51 combined estimated mpg. City families looking for something compact, stylish, hybrid and comfortable should consider the Toyota Prius. It’s got room for four, plenty of cargo space and a 2.0L 4-cylinder engine with up to 196 hp, resulting in an impressive 0-60 mph in 7.2 seconds.
From safety and reliability to high style, room for the whole team and smart technology, a new Toyota is a great choice for your next family car. Look through the exciting lineup of new Toyotas, learn about your buying power by completing Toyota Financial Services’ Online Credit Application and make an appointment at your nearby Toyota dealership to test drive to your heart’s content.
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