

Kia has changed up the styling, too, giving it new headlights and taillamps. Only the EX-spec Telluride gets an analogue dash this year, all of the rest get this big new double display. It's clean and bright, and even without a cover was easy to see in all of the horrendous lighting conditions that winter has to offer. The two big displays - one for the digital dash and one for infotainment - share a bezel-free panel. It also has Kia's new dual 12.3-inch panoramic display screens. While those changes make it a tiny bit more capable off-road and better able to take cargo boxes, skis, and kayaks along with you, neither one of them is likely to make the vehicle more highway friendly. To start, it was the new X-Line trim which brings 10 mm of extra ground clearance and raised roof rails.

Kia didn't make many changes to the Telluride with the 2023 refresh, but the copy I'm testing had nearly all of them. This year's saw me behind the wheel of Kia's largest model, the refreshed for 2023 Telluride three-row SUV. Loading up with luggage, people, and dogs, then heading out for more than a thousand kilometres of winter-dreary roadway in conditions ranging from snow-covered to rain to ice-covered. There's nothing like the holiday roadtrip to put a big family hauler to the test.
