Toyota Grand Highlander
Toyota's larger three-row, hybrid on the trims above the 2.4-litre base, with 33.5 inches of third-row legroom and 97.5 cu ft of maximum cargo.
Every measurement, sourced
| Pricing | |
|---|---|
| MSRP range | $42,260 – $60,175 |
| Space | |
| Row 1 legroom | 41.7" |
| Row 2 legroom | 39.5" |
| Row 3 legroom | 33.5" |
| Row 3 headroom | 37.2" |
| Cargo behind row 3 | 20.6 cu ft |
| Cargo behind row 2 | 57.9 cu ft |
| Max cargo | 97.5 cu ft |
| Exterior | |
| Length | 201.4" |
| Width (excl. mirrors) | 78.3" |
| Height | 72.1" |
| Capability | |
| Max towing | 5,000 lbs |
| Seating | |
| Max seats | 8 |
| Second row | Captain’s chairs or bench |
Child-seat hardware in the third row
| Curtain airbags cover row 3 | Yes |
| Row 3 lower anchors (LATCH) | 1 |
| Row 3 top tether positions | 2 |
| Row 3 seatbelt reminder | Yes |
Owner's Manual OM0E154U (2026 Grand Highlander, 603 pp), located via the Helm catalogue. ANCHORS = 1, ROW-ENUMERATED VERBATIM p.62: 'LATCH anchors are provided for the following seats. Second outboard seats (8-passenger models) / Second seats (7-passenger models) / Third right seat.' Only the third RIGHT seat — no centre, no left. TETHERS = 2, row-enumerated across pp.65-66: the anchor-bracket list ends 'Third center and right seats'. REMINDER = true, p.482: 'Warns the second and/or third seat passengers to fasten their seat belts. An indicator corresponding to an unfastened second or third seat seat belt will illuminate' — third row named explicitly, though it shares one rear-passenger indicator with row 2. CURTAIN = true, FIGURE-SUPPORTED, corrected from null 2026-08-24 for CONSISTENCY WITH THIS SITE'S OWN TREATMENT OF THE IDENTICAL TOYOTA/LEXUS EVIDENCE. p.37 'SRS airbag system' cutaway: item E 'SRS curtain shield airbags' is drawn as a continuous panel along the roofline extending aft over the third-row seating area, in a three-row cabin. The accompanying text is NOT row-enumerated — 'Help reduce impact to the heads of the occupants of the front and rear outer seats' — which is the same sentence Toyota/Lexus print in the GX 550, LX and TX manuals. This dataset already records curtain=true for all three on that basis: TX verbatim, 'text is NOT row-enumerated (front and rear outer seats); the SRS cutaway on the same page shows the curtain extending over the third-row seating area — figure-supported'. Nulling the Grand Highlander on identical evidence applied a stricter standard to the family batch than to the luxury batch; the original null is withdrawn. STATUS raised partial -> verified, matching the TX rather than the GX 550 / LX: the Grand Highlander's anchors, tethers AND reminder are all row-enumerated verbatim ('Third right seat', 'Third center and right seats', 'the second and/or third seat passengers'), where the GX 550 and LX stay partial because their reminders are not row-enumerated. Only the curtain rests on the figure. CPST CONTEXT (third-party, NOT a source for any value above): Cars.com's Car Seat Check found 'one set on the passenger side' and 'two sets on the passenger side and middle seatbacks' — independently matching Toyota's own 1 anchor / 2 tethers. No 2026-model CPST check exists; that article tested a 2024.
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- Third-row adults on a family budget — 33.5 inches of legroom, second only to the Tahoe among the family models here.
- Households wanting a hybrid without moving to a luxury badge: Hybrid and Hybrid MAX are catalogue trims above the gas base.
- Eight-seat capacity, with a second-row bench or captain's chairs depending on trim.
- Toyota equips only the third row's right-hand seat with LATCH lower anchors — the centre and left positions have none.
- Third-row headroom of 37.2 inches is the least of the family models here.
- Toyota's manual describes curtain coverage as reaching the rear outer seats without naming rows; the third-row value rests on its own cabin cutaway.
Data sources
- Toyota.com 2026 Grand Highlander features (official fsoData spec set)·covers: row1LegroomIn, row2LegroomIn, row3LegroomIn, row3HeadroomIn, cargoBehindRow3Cuft, cargoBehindRow2Cuft, cargoMaxCuft, towingMaxLbs, seatingMax, lengthIn, widthIn, heightIn, secondRowConfigVerified
- Toyota 2026/2027 full-line pricing (official PDF)·covers: msrpMin, msrpMaxVerified
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