This week, I had the 2024 Honda Passport in my driveway. That is nonetheless underneath embargo, so you may have to attend till subsequent week to examine it, however its new, double-wide heart console obtained me occupied with the entire numerous nooks, crannies, cupholders and cubbies in our long-term 2023 Sienna. So I made a decision I might attempt to rely all of them. Seems, that is a bit of tougher than it sounds, however even when we won’t in the end determine on the discrete quantity, I feel it is cheap to say that with regards to storage, the Sienna has a lot. — a lot, in truth, that the minivan has began to gather forgotten trinkets left behind by Autoblog staffers and their households.
The quantitative confusion is due in no small half to the truth that even the Sienna’s cubbies have cubbies. Take a look at the above shot of its entrance passenger door. Now we have the little seize insert on the highest, which doubles as a small cubby. Then there’s one other straight beneath it; and beneath that, the hybrid cupholder/cubby that has now develop into ubiquitous in thick-doored fashionable automobiles. However even that’s divided into a number of, quasi-separate cubbies. Is that this three storage areas? 5? Six? Now you perceive our scenario.
The remainder of the up-front storage (not together with the glovebox, as a result of come on, snooze) follows beneath. Notice the divided cupboard space alongside the sprint is interrupted by the wi-fi gadget charger in our tester, however hey, that is nonetheless technically storage. And I will additionally level out that the armrests above the middle console storage kind partitions that flip the lid right into a cubby even when the bin itself is closed. That is intelligent. The open under-console storage space additionally has two partitions shaped into it and a rubberized ground to assist hold small objects in place throughout spirited maneuvers.
Opening up the middle of the Sienna’s cabin for inspection reveals two issues. One: Now we have canine house owners on employees. Two: Extra cupholders! Until you rely the map pockets (which I did not), there’s really restricted storage again right here even with the captain’s chairs. The doorways have formed-in cupholders again right here too; one per aspect, and every seat has a further half-plastic, half-mesh “cupholder” kind factor. If you wish to see that in motion, try Snyder’s cupholder mega-test (sure, actually) from earlier this 12 months.
Now, we arrive on the way-back. We have got two cupholders per aspect again right here for occupants of the third row, which matches the quantity you get within the second row, in order that’s a win for sibling equality. There is a good, deep cargo space behind the seats, however that is additionally the place they cover once they’re folded. That is most likely probably the most environment friendly use of the area again right here in need of eradicating the seats solely, which is not one thing you need to do with any regularity. There is a good bonus storage space on the motive force’s aspect of the cargo space (the place our roadside package presently resides), however the panel on the passenger aspect is an entry level for service and doesn’t supply any cupboard space. And it is again right here that we discover the treasures left behind by a misplaced civilization — or perhaps simply my boss’s children.
I am nonetheless a bit of bummed that the center seats do not fold fully out of the way in which, as a result of this is able to enable the Sienna to carry 8′ framing supplies flat on the ground, however because it stands, it may well nonetheless accommodate some with some intelligent manipulation of the varied cabin parts. Search for extra on that in a future replace.
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