2025 Toyota Sienna

All minivans are great family vehicles. However, the Toyota Sienna displays true family-hauling magnificence by excelling at everything that’s important to families, earning our Best Buy Award in its class and a spot on our Best Family Car Award list. It has the reliability and class-leading resale value that Toyota is famous for, plus a standard hybrid powertrain and available all-wheel drive. The Sienna is a living room on wheels that you might like more than your actual living room.

We’ve spent hundreds of hours driving and evaluating this generation of minivans, including the 2025 Toyota Sienna.

The Toyota Sienna gets some welcome updates for 2025. In keeping with the times, wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay now come standard across the board. The standard infotainment display is an 8-inch screen, and a 12.3-inch screen is optional. The XSE trim and up now have dual 12.3-inch displays, one of which is a high-tech digital gauge cluster.

Additional updates include an advanced, radar-based rear seat reminder, new interior color options, USB-C ports, Gen 5 wireless charging, and “Beyond Zero” exterior badging. Magnetic Gray Metallic joins the color palette, and there are more interior color options. We’re glad because previously, Nobel Brown was the only interior option in the Sienna Platinum.

The top two trims (Limited and Platinum) now come with a built-in vacuum and a FridgeBox. This revolutionary snack storage feature is a functioning refrigerator with a freezer option, not just a cooler. Of course, it’s only refrigerated when the car is on.

This pricing is typical for a minivan, but the Sienna is the reigning champ of our Lowest 5-Year Cost to Own Award in its segment, largely because of its class-leading resale value and low fuel costs. For context, the Honda Odyssey is in this same ballpark. The Chrysler Pacifica a higher starting price. The Kia Carnival is less.

The 2025 Toyota Sienna is powered by a 245-horsepower hybrid 4-cylinder engine matched with an electric motor, a CVT automatic transmission, and front-wheel drive (FWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD).

Every time we get in one, we find the Toyota Sienna comfortable, quiet, and easy to drive. The Sienna’s hybrid powertrain isn’t as potent as rivals’ V6 engines, which means you’ll need some patience regarding highway passing. But for most other situations and general around-town duties, it’s plenty powerful. If you want a Sienna that’s slightly zestier in the turns, check out the XSE trim, which has a sport-tuned suspension. Just remember, though: This thing is still a minivan.

Although no longer the only one to offer all-wheel drive in the minivan class, the Sienna is still a good choice if you live where roads get slick and slippery due to foul weather. The outdoorsy Woodland Edition comes with all-wheel-drive as standard, plus a bit more ground clearance. A Land Cruiser this is not, but it can reasonably traverse dirt roads to a campsite or the snowbank left behind by the plow at the end of your driveway.

The Toyota Sienna’s driving position and ride height are just right, and we also appreciate its good visibility. Blind-spot monitoring is standard, as is Toyota’s excellent and robust suite of active safety features such as adaptive cruise control with lane-keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, and lane-tracing assist. We’ve found them to all work well and take some of the stress out of commutes.

Fuel Economy

Where the Sienna pays off, literally and figuratively, is with its hybrid powertrain. During our year with a long-term test model of this current-gen Sienna, we were regularly elated by its efficiency. Front-wheel-drive models earn 36 mpg combined, and you only give up one mpg with all-wheel drive. That’s less than $5/month in extra fuel costs when you add all-wheel drive. Those numbers would be good for a small economy sedan. Yet here they are in a minivan that can seat up to eight. Currently, not one of Sienna’s rivals come close to its mileage but Kia is releasing a hybrid version of its Carnival for 2025.

We also smile whenever we pass the long lines at a gas station when driving a Sienna. Front-wheel-drive models have an EPA-rated range of up to 648 miles between fill-ups or 630 for all-wheel-drive models. The Toyota Sienna is a genuine road-trip warrior.

The Toyota Sienna is made with families in mind, and nowhere is that more apparent than inside. As with all modern minivans, three rows are standard, and you can choose seating for eight or seven. If you want an 8-seat Sienna, know that it’s only offered in the LE trim (where it’s the only choice) or the XLE, where it’s optional. All others replace the second-row bench with two individual seats, reducing passenger count by one but adding comfort to the second row and easier access to the third. For a VIP-like experience, second-row captain’s chairs with ottomans are available.

There’s a trade-off when it comes to the Sienna’s interior space. It has the most third-row legroom but the least cargo space in its class. Its adult-friendly third row boasts 38.7 inches of legroom, and its maximum cargo capacity behind the first row is 101 cubic feet. That’s more legroom and cargo room than any midsize 3-row SUV, but every other minivan in this class has over 140 cubic feet of max cargo room.

The Sienna has two infotainment options: one with an 8-inch display and another with a 12.3-inch screen. Whichever you pick, wireless Android Auto and Apple CarPlay come standard. Other available tech features include a rear-seat entertainment system, a 360-degree parking camera, and the Driver Easy Speak intercom system.

In addition to the typical minivan features you expect, like power-sliding doors, a fold-flat third row, and tri-zone climate control, the Limited and Platinum trims step up the Sienna’s family car game with a built-in vacuum and the FridgeBox feature, which is exactly what it sounds like. However, unlike the cleverly integrated Stow ‘N Vac system available in the Chrysler Pacifica, the storage solution for the Sienna’s vacuum hose is just a canvas bag.

Minivans aren’t famous for their expressive aesthetics, but the Sienna’s lineup has surprising levels of personality and variety. The XSE boasts a sporty mesh grille, while the Woodland Edition has matte black wheels and extra ground clearance, giving it a more rugged look. Meanwhile, the Limited and Platinum models bring a more premium aesthetic with metallic grilles, and the Platinum gets new bi-tone wheels.

36 mpg
In our year with the Sienna, we appreciated its hybrid system every time we buzzed by a gas station. The Sienna’s standard—and only—powertrain is highly efficient. Thanks to Toyota’s decades of making hybrids, it’s smooth and up to the task.

Available all-wheel drive
The Sienna’s optional all-wheel drive only adds to the versatility of its feature set and is yet another reason to pass on that gas-guzzling SUV as your next family car.

Hands-free side doors and tailgate
The option to open and close the side and rear doors with the wave of a foot bolsters the Sienna’s everyday convenience.

Toyota Safety Sense (TSS)
This is Toyota’s name for its bundle of active safety and driver-assistance features, and it’s standard in every Sienna. Features like radar cruise control, automatic emergency braking, and lane-keeping assist are included.

Resale value
This is often out of mind when purchasing a vehicle, yet it becomes a significant factor when it’s time to sell. The Sienna has class-leading resale value, so file that away now and appreciate it later.

Vacuum and FridgeBox
Standard in the Limited and Platinum trims, the Sienna takes family-friendly convenience to the next level with built-in appliances like the FridgeBox and a vacuum in the second row that can reach just about anywhere in the cabin. We especially appreciated the vacuum when road tripping.

A 245-horsepower hybrid powertrain powers every 2025 Toyota Sienna. That horsepower rating is a bit low for this class, but the upside is that the hybrid Sienna returns outstanding fuel economy. The Sienna is the only minivan to come standard with a hybrid powertrain. Its rivals all come standard with a less fuel-efficient V6, while the Chrysler Pacifica offers a plug-in hybrid powertrain that can run up to 32 miles on battery power alone. A hybrid 4-cylinder powertrain is newly optional in the 2025 Kia Carnival, and it’s a little less efficient than the Sienna.

Front-wheel drive is standard, but the Toyota Sienna is available with all-wheel drive, which used to be its superpower. However, this feature is now optional on the Chrysler Pacifica and Kia Carnival. The more, the merrier.

3-Year/36,000-Mile Warranty

Toyota Sienna warranty coverage lasts three years or 36,000 miles, with the powertrain protected for five years (unlimited miles). The hybrid battery is covered for up to 10 years or 150,000 miles. New Toyotas also include two years or 25,000 miles of complimentary maintenance. Unlimited miles of coverage is more than that of rivals, but the rest of the package is average for the segment.

Safety

The Toyota Sienna boasts top safety scores. It earns the coveted Top Safety Pick honor from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and a 5-star crash-test rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).