base price of $43,490. Now we’ve snagged a mid-level Touring-L trim with a more family-friendly starting point of $35,490. Residing smack in the middle of the lineup, it sits above the LX and the Touring but below the Touring-L Plus and Limited trims. Refreshingly, the Touring-L comes with many of the latest safety, comfort, and assist features as standard. Remote start, a backup camera, blind-spot and cross-path detection, heated front seats, an eight-way power-adjustable driver’s seat with four-way lumbar support, and three-zone automatic climate control are among the goodies included. Our test example carried just two options. The first was the eight-passenger seating option ($495), which adds a center seat to the second-row buckets; full Stow ’n Go functionality is preserved for the outside seats, while the center seat is easily removed and folds to provide an armrest/drink holder when not in use. The other add-on was the $895 Premium Audio Group (referred to as Customer Preferred package 25L in dealer-speak), which includes a 13-speaker Alpine audio system with a 506-watt amplifier, an 8.4-inch “navigation ready” touchscreen display that replaces the standard 5.0-inch unit, active noise cancellation, a third-row USB port, and GPS antenna input, among other niceties. Only the top Limited trim has standard navigation. The Touring-L Plus has it as a $695 option, and the “navigation ready” 8.4-inch Uconnect setup in our Touring-L and lesser trims requires dealer-installed equipment and/or software to enable nav. Chrysler isn’t alone in the practice of making consumers pony up for higher trim levels in order to get factory navigation as standard. Honda, for instance, requires Odyssey buyers to step up to the second-from-the-top EX-L with Navi trim (base price of $39,100 for 2016) to get the technology.