2026 Toyota Sienna Reviews, Pricing & Specs

Toyota sells the 2026 Sienna in LE, XLE, XSE, Limited, Woodland Edition, and Platinum trim levels, with prices spanning $42,915 to $60,305, including the destination charge of $1,595. Our test vehicle arrived in Woodland Edition trim, painted a green color called Cypress. It had accessory door-sill protectors and no other options, carrying a manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP) of $53,790, including destination.

Cypress is an appropriate color for a vehicle called a Woodland Edition, especially since the only other colors for this trim level are white, black, and a gray called Cement—which would make more sense for something like a City Edition. The paint was doing heavy lifting because, despite its subtle suspension lift and a janky-looking tow hitch, the Woodland Edition didn’t look particularly rugged or outdoorsy. We’ve seen a Cement-colored Woodland Edition running around our area of Southern California, with a more substantial suspension lift, larger wheels, and all-terrain tires that actually achieves the effect Toyota was going for.

The Woodland Edition is available only with a Black interior, making it relentlessly dark and dour inside. We’d love to see a saddle brown option and lighter simulated open-pore wood dashboard trim that aligns with the outdoorsy theme. That would help tremendously, and the sharp contrast against the rest of the cabin might distract owners from the amount of cheap plastic in this thing.

Toyota really needs to step up its interior game for the Sienna. The shifter—a touchpoint an owner experiences with every single drive—has a junky sound and feel. The glove compartment door sounds and feels just as flimsy, and many storage areas are unlined, contributing to unwanted noise when items are placed there. Woodland Editions come with rubber all-season floor mats, but they scuff easily and just look dirty and faded most of the time.

One good thing about the Sienna is that it doesn’t look or feel like a minivan from behind the wheel. Drivers can’t see the hood, of course, but the wide, low dashboard, combined with the wide center console, is more like a crossover SUV.

All Siennas are hybrids, with a 2.5-liter four-cylinder gas engine, a nickel-metal hydride battery pack, and an electric motor that can power the vehicle at low speeds for short distances when drivers prod the EV Mode button (other modes are Eco, Normal, and Sport). An e-AWD system, adding an electric motor for the rear axle, is standard on the Woodland Edition and Platinum. Other trim levels have standard front-wheel drive (FWD), with optional AWD.

The powertrain provides 245 horsepower, which isn’t much in a 4,625-pound vehicle that can seat up to eight people and tow up to 3,500 pounds. The instant torque from the electric motor(s) makes the Sienna agreeable to drive in urban and suburban settings, but there simply isn’t much in reserve for passing on highways or climbing mountain grades.

According to the EPA, an AWD Sienna should get 35 mpg combined. Testing day was extremely hot and humid, putting the van’s four-zone automatic climate control system into overdrive. That undoubtedly contributed to a result of 31.1 mpg on our fuel-efficiency driving loop and 26.8 mpg on the mountainous evaluation route. Had we switched from Normal to Eco mode, that may have helped a little.

Before buyers choose a Sienna Woodland Edition because they think it can handle off-road trails, they should consider that aside from an increase in ground clearance from 6.4 to 7 inches, this trim level doesn’t offer features that can assist with mud, ruts, or rocks. Those 235/60R18 Bridgestones wrapped around the 18-inch matte-black wheels are all-season tires, not all-terrains.

Driving the Sienna Woodland Edition is boring, even for a minivan. A Honda Odyssey at least feels lively and playful. By comparison, the Sienna is soft, numb, and uncommunicative. And every time the engine revs, it complains loudly.

Still, the Woodland Edition provides a smooth ride in most situations, and though handling limits are low, the Sienna’s behavior on a mountain road is extremely predictable. The underlying vehicle architecture is foundationally sound, and the extra weight of the electric motors and battery pack low in the chassis contributes to impressive stability in corners and curves.

If there’s something that Toyota really needs to address here, it’s the feel of the brake pedal. We found it hard to modulate, making it difficult to smoothly slow and stop the Sienna. Also, the brakes lack bite, requiring too much muscle on the pedal.

As with any minivan, practicality is the name of the Sienna’s game—unless shoppers think they’ll regularly require a lot of cargo space.

Our Woodland Edition test vehicle had a four-zone climate control system (standard on all but the base LE grade), which we put to good use during a Southern California heat wave. It did not have ventilated front seats, and Toyota’s SofTex artificial leather typically does not breathe well. Ventilation is available with the real leather upholstery on Limited and Platinum models, but we feel it would be worth including on the Woodland Edition, given how the outdoor activities for which it’s designed involve sweat.

Power sliding doors are standard, with hands-free operation on all but the base Sienna LE, granting easy access to the second and third rows. Optional “super-long-slide” second-row captain’s chairs are ideal for long family of four road trips. Why not a family of six? Super-long slide the captain’s chairs back, and they make the Sienna’s third-row seat uninhabitable.

The captain’s chairs are quite comfortable and recline for napping. It would be nice if the Sienna Woodland Edition had a separate glass roof panel overhead for viewing nature on road trips. Also, for those planning to carry infants or toddlers, the sliding door window shades leave a huge gap in coverage, so buyers will need a second shade to stick to block out the sun.

Place the second-row seats in a middle position in their tracks, and the Sienna’s third-row seat offers plenty of room. Unfortunately, the rear side windows are small, and in combination with our test vehicle's all-black interior, it felt claustrophobic back there. Still, the third-row bench offers decent leg support and a proper backrest angle.

A power liftgate is standard, with hands-free operation optional on all trim levels except the LE and Woodland Edition. As with other minivans, there is a deep storage well behind the third row, contributing to 33.5 cubic feet of mostly vertical cargo space. If anyone tried to use it all, most of the items they had loaded would fall out the moment they opened the liftgate.

For big cargo jobs, fold the third row into the well and expand the cargo space to its maximum of 75.2 cubic feet, depending on the placement of the second-row captain’s chairs. That’s as much volume as many SUVs offer with the second row down, illustrating one of the many benefits of choosing a minivan.

Maximum cargo volume measures 101 cubic feet, which is much less than other minivans, and not much more than the 97.5 cubic feet of a Toyota Grand Highlander. There is a good reason for this; the second-row seats are not removable as they are in the Honda Odyssey and most versions of the Kia Carnival, and they don’t collapse into the floor like they do in most versions of the Chrysler Pacifica. Instead, they slide forward and vertically stack against the front seats.

A 12.3-inch digital driver display and 12.3-inch touchscreen are standard on most trim levels, including our Woodland Edition test car. The center screen resides over the center air vents and front climate control panel but doesn't integrate those functions.

Standard infotainment features include wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, SiriusXM satellite radio, and multiple connected service plans with complimentary trial subscriptions. They are Service Connect and Safety Connect for five years, Remote Connect and Drive Connect for one year, and Wi-Fi Connect for 30 days or three gigabytes of data.

Options include wireless smartphone charging, a 12-speaker JBL premium sound system, and a 1,500-watt power inverter with two household-style 120-volt AC power outlets for the Woodland Edition. Toyota offers an onboard vacuum and a FridgeBox refrigerated box in the Sienna Platinum.

We found the Toyota Audio Multimedia (TAM) infotainment system hard to view in its daytime illumination mode. Delicate fonts against a light background, coupled with reflections, made it hard to see, but switching to night mode cured that. An optional voice recognition system (part of Drive Connect) worked well but tripped up when requesting a specific SiriusXM station.

The Sienna is one generation behind most other Toyotas when it comes to driver-assist tech. The minivan has Toyota Safety Sense (TSS) 2.0, while other models have version 3.0. But shoppers aren’t necessarily missing out.

This minivan still has all the safety features expected of a modern vehicle. They include high-beam assist, forward-collision warning with pedestrian detection, automatic emergency braking, adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assist, and lane-centering assist. The latter system was unable to interpret temporary lane markings in a construction zone, but the driver-assist tech otherwise worked well.

Separately from TSS 2.0, the Sienna also has blind-spot monitors and rear cross-traffic alert. The Woodland Edition and other higher trim levels have front and rear parking sensors with low-speed automatic braking to prevent bumps when parking.

What’s missing from TSS 2.0 are some predictive technologies that, in our experience, tend to be more annoying than helpful anyway. For example, the Sienna doesn’t have Toyota’s Proactive Driving Assist, which automatically slows the vehicle for upcoming curves and freeway transition ramps. But in other Toyota models, we’ve found it tends to reduce speed by far too much for prevailing traffic conditions.

The Sienna’s safety ratings need improvement, though. In National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) testing, the 2026 Sienna earned a mediocre three-star driver protection rating, and a four-star front passenger protection rating. It did get five-star ratings in each side-impact test and a four-star rollover resistance rating as well, which were apparently enough to bump its overall safety rating to five stars but that rating doesn’t tell the whole story in this case.

The Sienna got a Marginal result in the updated Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) moderate overlap front-impact test that measures second-row occupant protection, but received higher scores in other IIHS tests. It does not qualify for a Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ award, but neither do any other minivans currently on sale.

Considering the 2026 Toyota Sienna has a standard hybrid powertrain, class-leading fuel economy ratings, includes generous trial subscriptions to connected services, and comes with two years or 25,000 miles of free scheduled maintenance, it is the most cost-effective minivan on the market. Not only that, but Toyota enjoys a well-deserved reputation for long-term reliability, and AWD is available.

For the 2026 model year, only three competitors exist. The Kia Carnival Hybrid comes close to matching the Sienna’s value equation but doesn’t quite measure up. A Chrysler Pacifica might make sense if it’s heavily discounted. The Honda Odyssey is appealing for its better driving dynamics and unique Magic Seat utility but is otherwise aging rapidly.

None of these minivans earns a Top Safety Pick rating from the IIHS, which, given their missions as family-friendly haulers, could tip the scales toward three-row crossover SUVs.

For those trying to decide between the Sienna and a Toyota Grand Highlander Hybrid, the minivan’s power sliding side doors make loading and unloading children significantly easier, especially in tight parking spaces. Owners will save their backs years of extra wear-and-tear, especially since the Grand Highlander’s long rear doors are almost impossible to open when parking is in any way tight.

The Grand Highlander Hybrid earns better crash-test ratings, and while it is slightly less efficient than the Sienna with AWD, at 34 mpg combined versus 35 mpg for the minivan, it’s essentially a wash. The Sienna is more affordable to buy, though.

With that said, Toyota’s Hybrid Max powertrain is available in the Grand Highlander, an upgrade that could cure some of what ails the Sienna. The Grand Highlander also offers 8 inches of ground clearance—an inch more than the lifted Sienna Woodland Edition.

Our advice? Young parents with limber backs who are just starting to build their families should seriously consider those sliding side doors. Grandparents on daycare duty might decide they don’t have any choice but to get the Sienna.