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Watch the sporty soccer mom go shopping at the mall all day.
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Originally Posted by nedergras
Because it's sporty! Look at how active the models are that're featured with the vehicle's marketing! They're hip, young, beautiful! If you buy a new RAV4 you'll not only impress your friends with your active lifestyleâ„¢ but everyone will know you have adventure in your spirit when you're behind the wheel of the all new RAV4.
Toyota RAV4 Review by Consumer Reports - “Pioneering model misses the mark”
Highs - Fuel economy, standard safety features Lows - Engine noise, ride, fit and finish
“Toyota has long set a high standard for the compact SUV class with each generation of the RAV4 until now.
The list of woes is long. The engine is noisy, limiting irritating snarls with each press of the accelerator. Your shifts could be smoother. The ride is stiff and a little jumpy. The vehicles higher ground clearance in the lower roof make it more difficult to climb into. The rear seat sits low and doesn’t provide adequate thigh support. The interior feels bland, bordering on cheap, making it worse by hard plastic trim. Visibility out of the windshield into the sides it is good, but the thick rear pillars create significant blindspots.”
Got an actual link? Hard to imagine Consumer Reports did a rough machine translation. I mean... limiting irritating snarls? Your shifts could be smoother (first person?). The vehicles (sic) higher ground clearance in the higher roof. Making it worse by hard plastic. That's worse than the average Google Translate Engrish.
Interesting review of the new RAV4. While I have not driven one, I have sat in one and the interior seemed well designed to me. It's a different vehicle now, ready to be taken deeper into the wilderness than the last ones.
I want to read reviews from real people who drive this vehicle every day.
you mean like an edmunds review? The reason why this is not as accurate is because Joe Bloke buys a car maybe every 4 years, he has no idea how one car is compared to another car because it's more than likely that he hasn't done any exhaustive test drives during his initial research.
When any professional organization does a comparison, their professional opinion will eventually directly relate to how a regular user will perceive any short comings after living with a car for several months.
Everyone should view the jaded opinion of a moto-journalist as the distillation of the owner's opinion after the honey moon. Easily impressed reviewers do nothing to help me choose a car I hope to live with for a long time.
Interesting review of the new RAV4. While I have not driven one, I have sat in one and the interior seemed well designed to me. It's a different vehicle now, ready to be taken deeper into the wilderness than the last ones.
It's a heck of alot more attractive now as well.
I noticed an adventure model out on the back lot and inside and out everything about it looked great.
Compared to the CRV, the rav4 having a real automatic makes it better to me. But they're both **** compared to the value of the Mitsubishi Outlander.
There IS value to many people in owning and driving a vehicle that doesn't have an interior that already looks dated by 25 years. The market has proven this.
There IS value to many people in owning and driving a vehicle that doesn't have an interior that already looks dated by 25 years. The market has proven this.
Nobody cares about what the interior of your crossover looks like.
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