What other cars did you consider?

[TxAggie]

My wife and I spent several weekends driving down the freeway looking at just about everything. We started with the Telluride back in April and she said NO. We looked at SUVs, both full size and crossovers from Nissan, Chevrolet, GMC, Subaru, Volvo, Mazda, Infinity, BMW, Land Rover, and Toyota; and full-size Chevy/GMC trucks. She liked the Nissan Armada and the Infinity QX80. We then almost bought a Land Rover Discovery. Then she had a notion to revisit the Telluride and the search was over. Ours has been on order since 8/17.

 

[bogie]

Hmmm... 3-1/2 year search....

All of these were taken for an overnight test drive to be able to drive on normal commute route, see if they fit in garage, drive at night to evaluate headlights & interior lighting, and evaluate drive position and comfort.

2018 GMC Terrain - the redo ruined it
2019 VW Tiguan - nice but small drivers area
2019 Volvo XC-40 - awful ride quality
2019 Hyundai Santa Fe (pka Santa Fe Sport) - turbo 4 had too much lag
2019 Subaru Forester - design of console interfered with knee space, CVT
2019 VW Atlas - too many $$$ to get must have features
2019 Subaru Ascent - didn't come in a color I would live with in top of line trim, CVT
2020 Honda Passport - badly executed push button trans and high price

2020 Telluride - ahh.... just right mix of features, comfort and value...

 

[mberns1]

Acura MDX

 

[TellySavalas]

I just had a 2019 Toyota Highlander as a rental and boy was I not impressed. The interior and controls were very dated (the car had a 1980's separate digital clock on the dash!) and the car shuttered at with any amount of hard acceleration. The only interesting feature was the separate window opening in the hatch. However, even though it seemed cool at first blush, when I used it, I found the opening to be pretty small and the load floor height to be low, so as to make getting anything in and out of the window opening to be difficult. I walked away knowing that I definitely made the right choice with the Telluride.

Sorry. I know you said this a long time ago, but having come from a Highlander to a Telluride and while shopping for replacements, that separate window opening is one feature I can't figure out why other companies don't include. Especially with most models having auto lift gates (that usually move fairly slowly), that feature was so quick and easy to access and I used it all the time. However, I'm 6' 4", so the load floor height was not an issue for me.

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[Tim-in-CA]

Sorry. I know you said this a long time ago, but having come from a Highlander to a Telluride and while shopping for replacements, that separate window opening is one feature I can't figure out why other companies don't include. Especially with most models having auto lift gates (that usually move fairly slowly), that feature was so quick and easy to access and I used it all the time. However, I'm 6' 4", so the load floor height was not an issue for me.

Well, you've got 6" on me, so in this case height (length) matters!!

 

[TellySavalas]

Well, you've got 6" on me, so in this case height (length) matters!!

It does, but I'm riding quite comfy in my Telluride!

 

[TJIG3000]

Mazda CX-9
Buick Enclave
New Ford Explorer

None were even close to the Telluride IMHO.