Toyota RAV4 2019 review
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- The Toyota RAV4 2019 model is the most sophisticated and thoughtful version of the mid-size SUV yet. It offers a huge 11-variant line-up, with six of those models being petrol-electric hybrids. And despite being almost the same size as its predecessor, the new version is considerably more roomy, notably more economical, and arguably more stylish. There's a lot to like here.
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Finally! I've been waiting for an Aussie review. You did a great job Matt, enjoyed it :)
One of the few reviews that reflects my opinion of the RAV4 hybrid Toyota eCVT is nothing like your usual CVT and i agree that the engine noise when it comes in is agreeable
I cant wait the end of the moth when i receive mine.
Great review and Aussie, with metric references (so over American centric imperial). Ordered a Cruiser Hybrid in Jan 2020 and told maybe August! Ended up with an ex demo from WA ( I’m in NSW), can’t go past the fuel range / economy, boot space, quality and Toyota service. Great car and worth a test drive..
I test drove it. Lovely car, lovely ride, and great fuel consumption. I however think road/wind noise is high on the highway. It is high on Swedish roads anyway.
Matt, you talk about the rear leg room with the front seat set in your position, but how tall are you? Are you taller than Tyrion Lannister, it is helpful to know?
I can see this being Australias second best selling vehicle one day (behind Hilux) as buyers turn away from Corolla /Mazda 3......which are approaching the size of the very cars Aussies walked away from years ago.
I can see this model doing very well.
I believe you!
I just trade in my hrv rs today for the hybrid and we have to wait till early september to be arrive
Great review. One question though. Did Toyota confirm to you that Apple Carplay and Android Auto will be coming by the end of the year as a free upgrade? I do not live in Australia but I have bought the corresponding Cruiser (expecting it beginning of June) and the only disappointing thing is the lack of smartphone connectivity.
Apple car play is available file mou
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@@polys643 All over the world I think.I live in Greece.Take care
Certainly looks better inside. The frontal treatment is stronger and more in line with what an SUV should be. Old one was too soft. Rest of vehicle - pretty good from most angles.
Don't like the transmission choice.......CVT auto or a six speed manual?? Having to change gears five times is pushing it a little i think, particularly in towns or cities where most of us live. I still think diesel should be available......it is an SUV!
looking to either buy the Forester 2.5i S or the RAV4 Cruiser hybrid, the only concern is the passenger head space... any thoughts?
Bale Kuzmanovski buy the Forester 2.5i-S hands down! Everything all in all, the Forester operates flawlessly in almost every area.
How’s the body roll? And how it handles high-speed cornering?
i did 2 test drives one in the alps less body roll then my CRV and handled real nice on twisty alpine roads
Bad idea to have USB ports in rear bottom someone may kicked them and damage these ports, I have seen almost cars like that, why don't they place the USB ports on each side of rear seats?
Why isn’t the Hybrid the top grade especially when it’s the most powerful engine ? Also I hate when manufacturers strip out features for certain markets our Cruiser Hybrid is missing,
- Windscreen deicer
- Heated steering wheel
- Ventilated seats
- Heated second row outboard seats
- Panoramic sunroof
- Adaptive LED headlights
- Puddle lights
- Digital rearview mirror
- Foot activated tailgate
NZ have a full size spare standard on all hybrids but our higher models don’t even have this as an option.
Yeah the US and UK hybrid models get the option of a full panoramic sunroof and two tone roof as well. Which we don't get unfortunately
With those massive wheel arches, other than the Edge's 19" wheels, the rest of the range looks under-tyred. It needs 19" or 20" wheels and tyres combo to fill them well.
My question is the re-sell value of a hybrid vehicle as time goes from one owner to another compare to competitor like CX-5 petrol. Will it has the same demand as petrol engine SUV when trading to the next owner due to the battery lifetime
@chez421 thank you
Many hybrid taxis have very high milage with no battery problems. The warranty for the battery pack is 10 years (so long as its inspected by Toyota every year). Apparently the cost of replacement is around $2500, but it seems failure is rare.
@@Driver6M Thank you
I would like to test drive the manual one
Hyundai Tucson FTW. 10 years of map updates and roadside assistance, lifetime capped servicing, 15,000km servicing intervals and a full size spare across the range :-)
Daniel Kennett Makes one wonder why they’ve needed to include so much and how they still make a profit. Then again, we all know why and how. Cheers!
6 speed manual? Sounds like fun except engine is underpowered, it needs 2.5l supercharged petrol with manual gear box
I've got a 2010 version 5speed manual 2.4 litre , seems got enough power and seems little quicker, that's the deal breaker for me to upgrade to the new version, really can't stand auto, to boring hahhaha
CRV is best in class for rear room.
I drive 650 K a week would the hybrid be the Best Buy.?
yes
Wish they made them a little smaller like a the old generation RAV4 a few years back
@@desmondventurato_1585 just the late 90s, early 2000s love that era
I just don’t get it why many reviews say slow auto boot .. do u want it to open fast and hit your face or close fast to snap your fingers?
That's a mature pragmatic thought! 😊
great advantage in low parking spaces you have time to react before you realize that its going to slam
Looks better than a FJ Cruiser at least, but its not a great looker. Looks less elegant than the CX5. No doubts that the build quality is on par.
Great review, I have a Rav on order (UK), well done for not repeating the old rubbish about CVT, all cars make noise when pushed hard, the Rav is no different.
A bit upset you get wireless charging, not available on any model in the UK, I assumed it was something to do with being right hand drive and they didn't want to modify the part, but your right drive too so they must have! why don't we get it for God's sake?
UK version have puddle lights, headlights cleaner, windshield de-icer, heated steering wheel, auto folding door mirrors, washer fluid level warning, heated front seats, panoramic moon roof, JBL premium sound system 9 speakers 800 watts, panoramic 360 deg view monitor, premium leather seats and all versions are only hybrid of either FWD or AWD. However, no ventilated front seats, no heated rear seats, no digital rear view mirror, no wireless phone charger, no kick activated boot door and no apple car play/android auto. By the way, from where it is made, Japan is also a right hand drive country.
That touchscreen looks so outdated. Would love to see a Forester vs RAV4 review.. I believe Forester is the best suv in the class at the moment.
me too
Subaru make ugly cars, even their chief designer admits
Does the 2.5 litre Edge come with the pox CVT or a conventional auto? And no, I’m not wrong, CVT’s SUCK!
Ha! The Edge has a regular old 8-sp auto. We'll do a review on that spec soon. And for the record, I reckon the CVT worked better than the Edge's auto at the launch...
Cheers
Matt
CarsGuide Cool but you can keep it.
NZsarge1 The Hybrid doesn’t have a CVT. It has an eCVT, which is something entirely different. Look it up!
In my experience it's the people who are overly critical of CVT's that suck!
Worrywart I agree, to a degree. CVTs are very efficient and can squeeze every nM out of that engine. However, they are inherently more sensitive to heat and are trouble-prone. At least for now. That’s why Toyota has actually stayed away from them until recently and why the Corolla’s CVT has an actual 1st gear in theirs. That takes the biggest forces off the belt and onto a gear. Then, once the car is rolling, the belt takes over. Brilliant!
Made where
Do you take money from our are in anyway sponsored by any vehicle manufacturer?
is it big enough to sleep in the back for a bloke of average height ?
The new RAV4 has been available in NZ for about a month. Have test driven the hybrid at various spec levels and like it very much. Coming from a Camry hybrid which has virtually no towing capability (400kg) I am looking forward to 750kg unbraked and 1500kg braked capability, while still retaining the hybrid fuel efficiency when not towing. Note those capacities are only on the 4wd hybrids (not interested in the petrol only models). I do think reviewers need to differentiate the eCVT fitted to Toyotas from belt driven CVTs of other manufacturers.
@CarsGuide I note that multiple Aussie reviewers are talking about Apple Carplay (AC) and Android Auto (AA) later in the year, or retrofitted if bought prior. Is this something that was covered in the press briefing? I'd be interested to know if it is just a firmware change or whether the forward USB port needs to be changed as well? Bravo Toyota for making it free of charge instead of charging $500 like Mazda!
Hi Ian,
Thanks for your feedback. The indication from Toyota Australia is that the media system software will just be updated, no firmware or hardware changes needed. It's good news for consumers, that's for sure!
Cheers
Matt
Pretty sure that Hybrid FWD is 480kg and Hybrid AWD is 1500kg. The 750 - 800kg is for the FWD petrol only (2.0l) I think....
@@--Nova-- You can see the towing capacity here: www.carsguide.com.au/car-reviews/toyota-rav4-74577
Cheers!
Matt
@Craig Featherstone : Unlike Australia, Toyota NZ hasn’t bothered offering FWD hybrids, only the 4WD variants. Therefore Ian is correct (for NZ). The price difference between equivalent petrol and hybrid is also much smaller than Oz (only NZ$500 to $1000) - unsurprisingly already a long delay to get hold of a hybrid in NZ.
Who thinks the front and back look like 2 different suv’s
2018 model has more seating room.
My 2006 Toyota RAV4 was awful. It was assembled in Japan that made me confident about its reliability. However it has generated so many issues along the way. Currently it is about 2OOK Kms, and I won't be surprised if it gets stuck on the road all of sudden. I guess I'll never buy RAV4 again.
Looks great nice video.
But I would not buy.
I had previous Rav4 liked it until it started to burn engine oil from 30,000 to 100,000km complained to Toyota for 3years and final fixed the engine and than the transmission failed. I would not buy anymore Rav4. Toyota has problems like Hilux and corolla. There used to be great cars but now not as good.
I love Toyota but in contrast to other comments here I find their new designs extremely ugly. They seem to be going backwards. New hilux , rav4, kluger all uglier than their previous style. Sorry. Obv personal taste
What’s the point of quoting vehicle prices excluding drive away costs, are we ever going to buy a car without them, answer no, so give us the full drive away price, not 4 or 5 k less.....rant over.
How is that 2nd row “best in class”? The forester is far better!
hoZko I agree with you. Forester is the most spacious cabin in class
The rims around the trapezoidal wheel arches don’t extend around the whole arch. The gap sticks out like dogs balls, making it look unbalanced, unfinished, and kind of bitsy.
With the boot that size i hope toyota will offer with optional 3rd row seats.
Doubt it - there's a Kluger for that! Or a Fortuner. Or a Tarago. Or a Prado.
Cheers
Matt
no Apple Play- turned off it straight away.
It’s not a CVT transmission. It’s an eCVT transmission, which despite the letters, has almost nothing in common with a CVT. Look it up!
It's easy to explain - CVT's uses a metal belt or chain running between two pulleys whereas an eCVT uses electric motor to control the speeds of planetary gearset components. It's a better implementation because it suffers less slippage under high torque. CVT's are very efficient (not quite as much as a manual transmission), has a continuous band of gear ratios between the drive and the driven shaft. It transmits an uninterrupted power to the wheels and mostly runs engine at constant power.
That's great, but this has major flaws. Firstly, no manufacturer actually implements a CVT the way it's meant to be implemented. This is because continuous rpm really drones on the drivers and saps feel between the driver and what is occurring to the vehicle. The CVT lacks the visceral feedback when implemented properly of a normal transmission. So car makers usually put in artificial steps to give some sort of feelback and normality to the driver, which negates the main advantage of the transmission. It's not a drivers transmission.
Secondly, CVT's can't really handle as much power as other regular torque convertors or dual clutch (you'll never see CVT's in high power vehicles, and if the RAV4 was to have the turbo petrol 2.5L from the Mazda, the CVT would not handle it).
CVT's are extremely popular in Japan with almost all of the high selling Kei cars being equipped with them because their 600cc engines and very light weights are perfect with this efficient transmissions, and they are noisy vehicles anyway, so any drone and high pitch delivered by this transmission is par for the course. Toyota is of course guilty of taking them from their Kei, to hybrids (where really, the CVT is a marriage made in heaven) to anything else. The one manufacturer though that completely rejects them thankfully is Mazda. In their 2012 redesign of their current transmission, they more or less automated their manual transmissions. It had one of the highest ratios of lock up on the market back them (others have caught up), and was is CVT efficient although in 2019, it can be argued that they'll need to add some more gears. They rejected CVT though based on the fact that it was a lifeless transmission.
Currently I am in Japan and have been speaking with some engineers from Toyota (next week head to Mazda HQ in Hiroshima to quiz more). With the agreements that Toyota has signed to source a lot of transmission and engine tech from Mazda, there is talk of eventually switching over to the newer versions of Mazda's transmission in any future non hybrid Toyota of this size. Combine this with the Mazda SkyactivX petrol compression engine featuring in future Toyotas, and the Mazda and Toyota alliance will really put the Honda's to shame IMHO.
Glenn Stewart To be honest, I prefer to hear the single optimum RPMs held on the CVT car I drive until I change my throttle input. My wife’s 2013 Legacy does that and it’s exactly how a CVT should be: peak rpms. That said, I think the current Corolla CVT implementation, with an actual first gear is better than what Mazda has.
George L I suppose you have to get used to a CVT, and of course it’s disliked by so many because most of the market don’t like it. I wouldn’t dismiss the Mazda transmission so quickly though. I really dislike auto transmissions, and the Mazda transmission is very quick (almost DSG quick without the jerks). Head over to Savagegeese (among the most thourough reviewers on TH-cam), and he is even more complementary. In his opinion, Mazda’s transmission is best on market on any vehicle on sale in US under USD $50,000. That’s a massive call.
George L and in research of noise in car cabin two sounds are important in reducing driver fatigue: 1 human voice range 2. Mechanical noise range. If you can keep the range of human voice low, people can talk. Mechanical noise of certain dB are shown to fatigue driver. Unfortunately the constant rpm of CVT stays in the fatigue range continually. I suspect it’s this that unbeknownst to the driver, is the reason it gets on people’s nerves.
George L but you have two good points. If a car manufacturer is not going to put hard yards in to create a good CVT alternative, then we can look to Subaru and the Corolla with first rear gear, as apparently having the best implementations of them.
Today though, driving our family Honda N-Box Kei car here in Japan. And the CVT is driving me so nuts we can only spend 30 minutes in it. A bus is more comfortable.
Sorry went and saw one the passenger side seat is the worst designed i have ever experienced on a car it is way to high with no adjustment and even worse with the sunroof model epic fail
Really want to hear a base model 2.0GX fwd RAV4 vs Forester base model comparison. Forget 4wd vs 4wd just for the sake of fairness, people shop with their budget, hybrid 4wd is out of most base model shopper's budget.
I think hybrid AWD is in a unique market proposition where output comparison should be among higher engine spec CRV, CX5 and Tiguan but significantly more economy to drive. Pick of the range? Maybe, but base Forester still represents incredible value for money
No apple car play or android auto?
It’s 2019 people!
Tom Wilding be clearly said there is. It just won’t be licensed to Toyota Australia for installation until later in the year
Brandon West why not just include it with the car like manufactures have been doing for years already?
Why retrofit it?
@@TomWilding1 Rights. Toyota could not get the rights for mirror linking the two until about a month ago.
Put this hybrid against a 3rd gen v6 and the v6 smokes it
One review I've watched said that the 2.5 liter AWD hybrid RAV4 is comparable to the CX-5 Turbo in terms of power.
Test drove one and it was nice enough. Power and transmission concered me, but all felt like a complete unit and made for the job and intended market. For me it just didnt feel like a big leap compared to the competition for the price premuim
Price premium? RAV4 is competitively price for what's on offer, and more affordable + better value than plenty of its competitors.
Cheers
Matt
Power and transmission? The Hybrid is the fastest in the class and the eCVT is the same as in the Camry hybrid and Prius, which is it’s flawless. The best part of Toyota is that they’re using Direct and Port injection systems together, eliminating issues of carbon build-up that comes with Direct Injection.
Does anyone notice it looks like a Subaru?
Looks Tough.. But gutless. I want some torque.
Actual....77% Hybrid sales
Am I the only person who dislikes all of the designs. Really bad Toyota.
Yes you are the only one
@@eugeneidubor3477 appears not
Toyota has given up on its design....Japanese graphic design is always simple, elegant and beautiful, its baffling that nearly ALL Japanese cars are ugly, complicated mess that makes you wanna puke when you see one. ie. Juke, and this.
Shut up and apologize. Your german cars are endless money pits
Here we go again. Another touchy feely so called review from Cars Guide making sure they don't upset the Carmaker. Why not show footage of the Wine Sipping, Latte Guzzling Yuppies driving back home on the space saver tyre.
dave watson so just because he liked the car, you think he’s sucking up to the car manufacturers? So are you arrogant enough to believe that a review isn’t accurate unless the reviewer is unhappy? And also your comment on the yuppies seems pretty ignorant too. Congratulations
Hey Brandon. I am not ignorant in fact I am very well informed. If you want a proper review of vehicles look at John Cadogan of Auto Expert TV. He will confirm that Cars Guide and the like are nothing more than lackies to the car industry and pander to them so as not put the sponsorship dollars at risk. Unfortunately people like you just accept what is given to them. You are a mob of sheep. Why don't you do a video yourself going across the Nullabor and back and put the space saver on and see how you go.
Did you really just say it's stylish? It's horrendous.
It's so ugly, it looks like a weird Suzuki Vitara that's had an accident. Revolting Appalling Vehicle?
Is this video mirrored? Why is the steering wheel on the right, and why are you driving on the left? That's not, um, right
@@shalinika We're all paid actors.
copy Vw Tiguan much lol
absolute garbage, the 1st gen is the og, a cuv, or micro suv as u will, the new ones are too big, what's the difference between this and a Freddy Kluger
Cvt noise?! Take it from you!!!? Mate just bloody search TH-cam. Rav4 hybrid noise over 90 is unbearable. looks like your review is either sponsored or one sided.
To my eyes it looks horrendous. Thoroughly nasty. Far too angular. Its one of the very few cars that I just do not like from a design standpoint.
Looks shithouse
It's not a review. It's a glorified Toyota ad. Nothing wrong with a car besides a bit of a road noise? Would you suck off anyone who let you test drive their car? No car is perfect and never will be and there is always some sort of compromise. Too bad buyers find out about all the imperfections AFTER buying the car and not from your "review".
Nice review but god this guy gets on my nerves
Thanks Lukus, you get on my nerves, too.
Matt
Terrible quality buy 3 year old Merc ml instead quality and prestige
Very poor interior quality.......
Um, nah.
Matt
@@carsguide what's real life fuel consumption on 2.0 Petrol ? and 2.5L
@@stevethea5250 Check the full review here - we didn't get enough time to do a comprehensive test, but the numbers we saw on a few road loops are probably fairly indicative as it was a largely city-based drive. www.carsguide.com.au/car-reviews/toyota-rav4-74577
Thanks
Matt
I think you'll find there is a major step up in materials. Toyota really needed to step up. Jump in a recent Hyundai Sante Fe or Mazda CX-9 or better still latest 3 and the world has moved forward from the last RAV4. Toyota also has an inconsistency in fonts and poor ergonomics. That seems to be resolved as well (albeit I bet there is still a digital clock in there somewhere - argh).
Serious kudos should be given to Toyota for coming to the party.
@@inodesnet exactly