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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m looking to spend in the mid 30’s on a used SUV (2018 or newer).  I need a third row for occasional use only.  We put high mileage on our cars and keep them for years.  I’m considering the Highlander.  Does anyone have opinions on the Highlander or other vehicles to consider.   Thanks!

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Highlanders are great. Reliable, comfortable, plenty of space for cargo and passengers.[/quote]

Weird - my 15 year old station wagon does all of that and gets great mileage too.  Of course like all cars on the road most of its miles are my wife driving alone to work but hey get that third row for the 6 times a year you will need it so someone doesn't have to sit in the middle seat.

Everyone driving these silly status symbols realizes that we are killing our planet right now?  And that everyone on the road, including you, is less safe too?[/quote]

I'm pretty sure that a new Highlander is more safe than your 15 year old station wagon - including for other cars on the road and pedestrians. Next time you are out driving, say thank you to a modern SUV. [/quote]

I'm pretty sure you are someone who gets their info from SUV commercials!

[i]Rollovers are dangerous incidents and have a higher fatality rate than other kinds of crashes. Of the nearly 9.1 million passenger car, SUV, pickup and van crashes in 2010, only 2.1% involved a rollover.

However, rollovers accounted for nearly 35% of all deaths from passenger vehicle crashes. In 2010 alone, more than 7,600 people died in rollover crashes.[/i]

Lots and lots of articles about this.  From:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/rollover/unsafe/theme.html

[i]It's a myth that SUVs are safer than cars. People in SUVs die just as often as people in cars; they just die differently. They are more likely to die in rollovers, and they are much more likely to kill other people. ...

Even the largest sport utility vehicles don't really make you appreciably more safe than you would be in a large car or minivan, and you will get much better gas mileage [in a car or minivan], you will produce a tiny amount of the air pollution, and you will not be putting your neighbors at an enormous risk. .[/i]

So you aren't safer, everyone else on the road is less safe and you are burning even more gasoline than you otherwise need to.

But hey you look cool tooling around Olney in your Pathfinder!
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The facts don't agree with you:

https://www.consumerreports.org/car-safety/study-shows-how-death-rates-for-drivers-vary-by-car-size/[/quote]

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