Was anyone else very tempted by the Kia Carnival Hybrid before buying your Sienna?
I’m shopping for a minivan. I’ve always been a Toyota guy, but the Sienna has a few major annoyances for us: the second-row seats aren't easily removable (we want to pull one outboard seat to leave a middle+side bench), the tech feels dated, the third-row windows feel tiny etc
The Kia Carnival fixes all of this on paper.
For those who evaluated both: Did these Sienna flaws (or others) tempt you to jump ship? What ultimately made you stick with Toyota and what trim did you go with?
I know that the carnival hybrid is too new to evaluate in terms of reliability but if anyone has horror stories of the carnival hybrid's reliability, that'll make me feel better about sticking with a Sienna
Posted Jun 8, 2026, 4:33 PM UTC
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