2016 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Review – The Crossover Unicorn
A few short weeks ago, I was inside a very purple 2016 RAV4 marveling that Toyota’s compact crossover nearly outsells the Mazda brand. My bottom line for that RAV4 read like this: Why are the RAV4’s...
View ArticleWant To Beat The Honda CR-V? Sell a Hybrid
After finishing a close third behind the plunging Ford Explorer and Chevrolet TrailBlazer in 2006, the Honda CR-V went on to claim the top spot among SUVs/crossovers in America in eight of the...
View Article2019 Toyota RAV4: From Cute Ute to This
While the fourth generation of Toyota’s RAV4 contained a touch of menace, the model has always been an easygoing compact utility vehicle. When it hit North America in 1995, it didn’t have a lot of...
View ArticleToyota Wants More Dudes Buying the RAV4, Along With Everyone Else
The RAV4 has quickly become Toyota’s most important vehicle. While the Corolla still trumps it in overall global volume, the small crossover has made a ridiculous amount of headway over the past...
View ArticleNissan Finds the 2018 Rogue Hybrid, Gives It a Sticker Price
The crossover Rogue Hybrid appeared last year, teaming a 2.0-liter engine and 30kW electric motor that made 176 net horsepower and worked in concert to achieve the magical 35 mpg figure. For what it’s...
View Article2019 Toyota RAV4 First Drive – Choose Adventure Time
The 2019 Toyota RAV4 wouldn’t, at first glance, be my first choice for a run down famed California Highway 1 from just south of Monterey to the famed Bixby Bridge and back. It probably wouldn’t be...
View ArticleThe Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Is Now, by Far, Toyota’s Best-selling Hybrid in...
You weren’t crazy. In 2000, when the Toyota Prius first arrived in the United States only slightly behind the Honda Insight, it wasn’t unreasonable for you to wonder whether the odd little duck had a...
View ArticleDrinking Problem: Owners Cry Foul Over Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Gas Tank
Buyers of the revamped-for-2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid seem pleased with their vehicle’s upgraded fuel economy, but ask them about range, and you’re liable to get an earful. In an unusual development not...
View ArticleKentucky Kicks Off Production of Toyota RAV4 Hybrid
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) has announced the start of production of the new RAV4, the best selling vehicle in America that isn’t a pickup. Officially, TMMK is handling the hybrid...
View Article2019 Toyota RAV4 Review – Half a Million Buyers Can’t Be Wrong
Well, maybe the crowd can’t always be trusted. Over the last two hundred-plus years, there have been more than a few instances where our plurality voting system has yielded suboptimal victors in...
View ArticleToyota, aka Hybrid King, Storms Into New Year
We told you late last year how the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is the hybrid the Toyota Prius wishes it could be. The two models have essentially swapped positions, with eco-minded American consumers now...
View Article2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Review – Second Glances, Second Chances
When I first drove the newest generation of Toyota’s popular RAV4, I was lukewarm on the hybrid model. I liked the previous-gen hybrid better. At the time, I wrote that the best new RAV4, in this...
View ArticleToyota Prices Its RAV4 Prime, the Crossover With a Plug
By bestowing a name once associated with the Prius on its top-selling RAV4 crossover — while adding beefed-up electric motors, battery pack, and charging port for good measure — Toyota catapulted the...
View ArticleFluke? Electrified RAV4 Outsells Normal RAV4
Please don’t send us emails complaining about the use of the word “normal” in a headline. Yes, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid is still a RAV4. Yes, it has every right to exist, and it makes its parents proud,...
View ArticleToyota RAV4 Hybrid Fails the Moose Test in Dramatic Fashion
Sweden’s evasive maneuver test, better known as the moose test, is a brutal simulation of what might happen if your lane was suddenly occupied by a giant mammal and you had to get out of the way in a...
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