NY Show 2012 Highlights: 2013 Toyota Avalon

In the past, we’ve characterized this biggest of all Toyota passenger cars as more Buick than Buick. It was a tribute—if you can call it that—to the Avalon’s quiet, competent operation, anonymous styling, and generally unobtrusive character. However, Buick has begun to shed its dowdy image, leaving the Avalon as perhaps the de facto ruler of a class definable as premium conservative large