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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AWD Toyota Sienna minivan. Only comes in hybrid now.

We live in Colorado and have owned lots of different SUV’s. My kids ski raced for YEARS and the AWD Sienna (ours predated the hybrid availability) with good winter tires outperformed everything. [/quote]

That’s great to hear! Do you ever have issues with clearance? We get huge snowbanks created by plows, and they are often compacted like cement, so we need clearance to go over them. [/quote]

There have maybe been one or two times where clearance has been an issue. My husband got a lift on his 4Runner last summer at a place in Denver that specializes in Toyota modifications and I half jokingly asked the guy if they’d ever lifted a Sienna. Sadly they don’t offer that service. The 4Runner is comparatively lousy in snow, even when DH had studded tires.

Our street at home rarely gets plowed so we don’t get those snow banks (on the rare occasion when the city does plow they push it to the top of our cul de sac where it doesn’t block any driveways) and if it’s deep I just wait for DH or the neighbors to drive through the snow first. One time up in the mountains we were leaving for a ski race and it had been snowing for a couple of days—I shoveled when we got to our cabin (we used to rent a place for the season), then shoveled before bed, then got up and shoveled before the kids woke up. The street hadn’t been plowed but a couple of people in large pickup trucks had driven down the street and out of our neighborhood so I just gunned it out of the driveway and drove in their tracks. Made it to the race and it was canceled because there was too much snow for them to set the course. We saw so much crazy on I-70 that day but the kids and I just chugged along in the Sienna. Again, we’ve only owned the gas Siennas, (2011 and 2018–got the second one because the first one was totaled by baseball sized hail) since the hybrid just came out recently. [/quote]

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