The Telluride is a three-row, unibody SUV that will cause Lexus shoppers fits. More specifically, I want to talk about the machine that conveyed me, my wife, and our cat and across the country safely: the 2020 Kia Telluride. You can read all about that trip and its myriad foibles in the June, 2020 issue of Road & Track (which should have arrived in your mailbox by now). The trip was a real white-knuckler, tinged with the urgency and paranoia only a pandemic could bring. The four-day drive spanned the continent, from Brooklyn, New York to Washington state’s far-flung farm country, with more than 45 hours of wheels-on-pavement drive time.

Its towing is greater than the Pilot, however and, if you're not too picky about materials, its interior is miles ahead of either.At the exact moment I wheeled the 2020 Telluride into my in-laws’ Eastern Washington driveway, the trip odometer read 2858.4 miles. That's a lot of car for the $45,330 total price, which includes the $1,045 destination fee.Īs far as competition goes, as mentioned above the Telluride offers more power than either the Subaru Ascent or Honda pilot, though in AWD trim its combined EPA figure is falls short of the 23 mpg Ascent and the 22 mpg Pilot. The SX includes access to Kia's Uvo telematics, which means remote preconditioning, plus the full suite of adaptive safety systems, including automatic emergency braking, blind-spot detection and an advanced adaptive cruise system that can not only handle stop-and-go traffic, but automatically adjust speed based on the current posted limit.

I'd add $795 for the towing package with self-leveling rear suspension, necessary to get the boat to the lake, but probably skip the $2,000 SX Prestige package unless my second-row passengers really needed heated and cooled seats.

$41,490 gets you in the door, plus another $2,000 for AWD.

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