2023 Toyota Sequoia Capstone First Test: Outstanding Numbers, But the Rest?

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2023 Toyota Sequoia Capstone First Test: Outstanding Numbers, But the Rest?
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The new Sequoia is among the most statistically impressive three-rows around.

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Driving anything other than straight, the Toyota behemoth embodies what senior editor Aaron Gold calls"big-car clumsy." Body roll is abundant in corners and the nose dives forward under braking. Multiple staffers also called out major shudders through the body structure when driving the Sequoia over washboard sections of an off-road course.

The engine provides plenty of outright performance, which Gold describes as"like a V-8" but with"an invisible hand pushing the vehicle along." Credit the electric motor's torque fill. Some folks loved the hybrid twin-turbo V-6 but others noted inconsistent surges of power delivery. Toyota also makes this engine sound like a V-8, not with some clever exhaust geometry but by piping fake induction noise through the audio system.

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