Wife bought a 2021 4Runner in January & we’ve been very pleased with it..

That is nice. Just sent that info to the wife.

Dad has a 4Runner and mom has highlander and I like those, but she wants luxurious hence the RX350 or fully loaded kia’s. .

That chip shortage must be the reason no one is really playing ball. I know sleepy is just printing and giving away money, but are people really lining up to drop 40-50k on a suv right now. I have a 2014 tundra sr5 that I’d be happy to keep for 100k miles. Where the hell are people coming up with all this money to buy crap. Stimulus aint that much money!

Wish I'd known you were looking a couple months back as I Traded the Wifes 2018 Lincoln MKX (21,000 miles) in on a New Expedition. They didn't give me nutten on trade in or what I paid for it. . Could have got it on the cheap.

I pushed for explorer. I like Ford, but she wasn’t a fan of explorer at all. I Liked the expedition but she said it was too difficult to park.

Didn’t even think of Buick. I’ll have to check them out. She really liked the sorrento, but mid 40k I can get a gently used Lexus for that. A Lexus IS a glorified Toyota but every yota or Lexus in the family has been bullet proof.

So trades aren’t bringing a premium either?

I’d skip the Mazda. Bought a brand new one in 12 and let’s say before it even hit 36k it needed a new motor

We went through all of this in December 2018. I don't know how much you travel or if you're planning on a second kiddo, but we outgrew our Explorer once the second kiddo hit the ground. We made it work fine for 7 months, but it just seemed to get pretty tight. We travel most weekends and even though we had the 3rd row folded down the majority of the time we drove it, it got tight with bags, stroller, diaper bag, etc. etc. and we weren't even in the age of needing to haul a kids bike yet.

We test drove all of the mid to big size SUVs and ended up in a Tahoe (wife's initial "want"). We absolutely loved the Atlas EXCEPT for the rear air vents not being in the ceiling. With two kids in car seats with Texas summers, unfortunately it was a deal breaker for us. Air vents in the ceiling was the one and only thing we wouldn't compromise on when buying a vehicle. Shortly after we got the tahoe the new expeditions came out....sure wish i would have looked into that, but we're happy with what we have.

The 2019s were out when we bought my wife's 2018 tahoe. It was still considered a "new" vehicle but was a demo. "New" meaning it still had all of the warranties and everything that a new vehicle has since it was never registered to anyone. If you can find any demo models, they'll tend to work pretty well on the price for you. We got 20k off of sticker with our demo that only had 7k miles. I'm not pushing the tahoe in the slightest, just make sure you look at the small things (airvents) and the big picture (another kiddo).