Our long-term mortgage of a 2023 Toyota Sienna Platinum AWD has been a stable household hauler for a lot of miles. However whereas its hybrid powertrain has been sipping gasoline on lengthy street journeys, I have been sipping tons and many water. Greater than your common water bottle will maintain. I am just about at all times thirsty, which is why I convey alongside a extremely large water bottle — one that always would not slot in your common cupholder. Perhaps you additionally rock a 32-ounce Nalgene, or another oversize container, and run into the identical downside. Nicely, now I can inform you if that downside extends to the Sienna Minivan.
I will begin up entrance, the place there are plenty of cupholders.Â
It would not match within the two alongside the shift lever. There are a pair extra proper behind it, underneath a little bit flip-up cowl.
It would not slot in these, both. What in regards to the ones constructed into the entrance door?
So many cupholders, so little girth! As now you can see, this minivan has induced issues for me. There is no good place for me to place it whereas driving, so it typically finally ends up rolling round it the entrance passenger footwell after it falls off the seat. Then I get thisrty — thirsty and mad!Â
How about all of the passengers within the rear? Should they accept wee child water bottles as properly?
These cupholders on the rear of the middle console do not do the trick, however there are a pair within the sliding doorways that appears promising.Â
Tarnations! Wait … there are these bizarre versatile net-style ones on the aspect of the captain’s chairs. Perhaps these will work.
The elastic on the prime stretches simply sufficient to suit across the backside of the bottle, however you may’t shove it down any additional — actually not far sufficient for the bottle to remain put when the Sienna is in movement.
Assist us third-row cupholders. You are our solely hope.
No. Not one of the cupholders within the Sienna can accommodate our outsized water bottle. Generally desperation will lead us to the seatback pockets behind the entrance row, however even these are too tight:
Once more, that’ll simply fall out whereas we’re driving.
It is a disgrace as a result of the rival Chrysler Pacifica’s cupholders play good with large bottles. And we have seen different Toyota fashions that do, too, just like the 4Runner and the rear cupholders within the last-gen Tundra. The comfort right here is that what the Sienna lacks in cupholder high quality, it makes up for in amount. As Riswick confirmed in his Sienna inside storage assessment, you simply should convey plenty of insufficient normal-sized water bottles and fill all of the cupholders within the van.
