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The Toyota Highlander has been a handy fallback for the Japanese carmaker. When real SUVs like its own 4Runner were falling out of favor, the plus-sized crossover took up the slack. In two generations, the Highlander took over a lot of jobs, from affordable family wagon to statement-making hybrid.

The Highlander's been reimagined before, from its spartan wagon roots into the current, girthy, second edition. For its third take, the big utility vehicle adopts a new look that owes some of its cues to a slew of competitive vehicles that occupy the grey area between crossovers and SUVs. We see some Durango and X5 in the side view--and oddly enough, lots of Mitsubishi in the maw of its deep new grille and in the exaggerations around its wheel wells and at the sills. It's a shift toward a 4Runner-ish, SUV-ish style that runs exactly opposite to the trend in most other big crossovers--Santa Fe, Flex, Traverse. That switchup works better than it did on the Honda Pilot, but it also makes us wonder exactly what the 4Runner delivers that the Highlander does not.

The 2014 Highlander will boost its standard safety equipment with a total of eight airbags and a newly standard rearview camera. Hill-start assist is also included.

Among the new safety options are blind-spot monitors, a lane-departure warning system, and parking sensors. Visibility is better, Toyota claims, thanks to repositioned pillars and bigger rear-quarter windows.

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VIRTUAL TEST DRIVE 2014 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER –

AIRMONT, NY 10901