![]() On the first morning of our trip, I wheeled the Telluride out of Brooklyn and picked up Interstate 80 at the Pennsylvania border. If the Stinger was a shot over the bow of Japanese luxury, the Telluride is something far greater: a direct hit. ![]() There’s wireless phone charging, heated and ventilated front seats, acoustic glass to cut road noise, and probably a dozen USB ports. Physical buttons flourish along the compact console. A crisp ten-inch touchscreen anchors a simple, logical infotainment suite. The driver’s seat is supple, trimmed in soft leather, infinitely adjustable. ![]() ![]() Every penny felt defensible from the Telluride’s cockpit. Our top-of-the-line tester begs $46,860 from your wallet. Its interior quality matches the midsize luxury SUVs from Japan (and most of the Germans), and betters them all when price is factored. The Telluride is a three-row, unibody SUV that will cause Lexus shoppers fits. More specifically, I want to talk about the machine that conveyed me, my wife, and our cat and across the country safely: the 2020 Kia Telluride. You can read all about that trip and its myriad foibles in the June, 2020 issue of Road & Track (which should have arrived in your mailbox by now). The trip was a real white-knuckler, tinged with the urgency and paranoia only a pandemic could bring. The four-day drive spanned the continent, from Brooklyn, New York to Washington state’s far-flung farm country, with more than 45 hours of wheels-on-pavement drive time. At the exact moment I wheeled the 2020 Telluride into my in-laws’ Eastern Washington driveway, the trip odometer read 2858.4 miles.
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