2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid UK Review
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- In this episode we test the new Hybrid SUV from Toyota that is the Rav4. Let us know your thoughts on this car.
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Very nice video. I appreciated the details and length of the video. I was looking for an in depth review of the 2019 RAV4 hybrid and that is what you gave us. Well done!
18:24 gotta love that dry humor
Great car review! Thank you for pointing out the Mirrorlink feature. A lot of people are concerned about connectivity on the road.
Peace from the US.
Very detailed and informative car review. Awesome............
Please do more car reviews like this! Found it very useful with all the detail (though im still torn between this and an Ateca)
Great review. Thanks!
Love the look of this new Toyota rav
Very informative review gents.
With my 2020 RAV4 XLE I have gotten 45mpg All gas. I will always have an all-gas car. No electric car for me. Drove on AZ rocky hills to NC sandy beaches. No problems at all.
Thanks for a fab review.. just what I’ve been looking for.. have ordered one today.. (UK delivery not until mid November though)...
Great! Let us know what you think?
Due to many comments here questioning the sense of the "self charging" hybrid I want to make a few things clear you did not mention in your video.
The main advantages of a "self loading" hybrid concept with a small buffering battery vs. a so called "plug in hybrid" are:
- independence of rare (and powerful) charging stations
- predestining the car for longer overland trips,
- less weight (bc. no heavy battery needed),
- maximization of energy use and reuse.
If you drive a RAV4 Hybrid you will notice that the battery will be reloaded whenever you slow down, press the brake or move downhill. This is called recuperation and is the key to the engine's fuel efficiency. You will save brake pads as a side effect.
For me this is the most coherent concept until research and political developments will provide us with enough charging infrastructure and an an H2 infrastructure for fuel cell cars.
But if you drive a lot in snow, for example, and need AWD constantly, won't you eventually run out of charge, so rear wheels lose power?
Trespasser No problem, because the fuel engine will always keep the battery charged up to a certain level if there is no recuperation energy available.
@@audiveritas I see, thanks for the reply.
The best RAV4 review i have seen so far. And i have seen them all. Dutch, german, etc. Good job guys. I really like your style of testing and looking into all things.
same
Thank you
It’s the sophisticated English vocabulary found no where else in the world 🌎
@@jameslouis1627 haha....I think? Lol
Great review. Going to buy one next year if I fit in it 6 ft 2 . My 2017 RAV4 excel hybrid AWD ok but keep hitting my knee on wheel and cruise control lever.
Thank you.
The rear camera view on the mirror is one of the most useful features - ideal for seeing traffic to the rear when driving a fully loaded car.
My next vehicle.. awesome.. . Toyota Resell Value says All
Great video. I drive a C-HR Dynamic Hybrid and love it but didn't like the shape of the previous RAV4. This one is likely to be my next car.
Rear view camera is for if the backseat is fully loaded with basketball player or whatever you put there. It's actually pretty neat unless you get nauseated easily.
well you can always use the wing mirrors :) if back seat full
Muy buena explicación me encanta como los ingleses y probáis los coches
Nice test, interesting and full of interesting comments reportage. So this new eCVT gearbox is not so loud?
They all scream when you floor it but is quite quiet. However that may be more to do with sound deadening.
@@motorsforthemasseshow u like the JBL audio system cheers from Hawaii
The digital rear view mirror gives you an unobstructed view of the rear should you have the truck loaded. This uses a different camera mounted on the inside top center of the back window.
The necessity for the camera/rear view mirror comes when you have so much luggage or whatever in the rear that you can't see out the back using the mirror. Nice feature, if you ask me.
Absolutely, an obviously great inclusion
This is a very refined vehicle. The workmanship is impeccable.
18:34 I love this part lol
I’ve driven one and if you drive in eco and aren’t flooring it for max acceleration all the time you can get 50 mpg, it charges from braking too, it basically recycles what is normally wasted energy, such as braking, and from coasting and whenever the petrol engine comes on. It’ll do 45+MPG all day long on petrol (cheaper than diesel these days) £135 a year road tax (£250 in my equal sized diesel engined car) but a Plug In Hybrid Vehicle will do 20 miles on pure EV then 20MPG there after, if you don’t know how it works educate yourself or go and test drive one! Don’t just go and call it bs marketing, Toyota have to call it self charging these days because of all the other brands sticking a battery in the car (that you have to plug in) and call it a Hybrid, Toyota Pioneered Hybrids with the Prius 20 Years ago, they didn’t need plugging in then and still don’t they’re just two decades ahead of the other car makers jumping on Hybrid tech now
Thank you, people actually understand that toyota is a pioneer in hybrid technology so they know what they are up to!
I own an Active Style 4wd. Did a test driving with the cruise control set to +5km/h (3mph) over the speed limit. I was down on 5,4l/100km. Makes it roughly 43,5mpg.This was on a 30min drive on a pretty bad road. Speed limit ranged from 80km/h (~50mph) to 60km/h (~40mph). Driving economically without the cruise control, I would imagine you could push it quite a bit.
The highway is a completely different story. 6,5l/100km (36mpg) while driving 110-120km/h (70-75mph) has been the result so far.
@@Zogin_EPICH
That,s really good at that speed. Very good. For an all wheel drive to get that is great because of the weight.
Ours is permanently in eco mode and avg mpg is 40.6 mpg. My 10yr old diesel Citroen Dispatch with over 500kg cargo getting 40.9mpg. Feel cheated to be honest.
Ford Focus or Peugeot 208 getting 70mpg. Should have got one of them instead.
Badass color! I hope they bring this one to the US
HP1991 they do! magnetic gray metallic/black roof and it is really bad ass! I want one just like that!
"Badass color" REALLY??? Nah, that's just the default color to save money on paint for the company. So dead and lifeless looking color, ESPECIALLY THE INSIDE. Don't be fooled, everything about a "gray" and "black" interior screams unpainted, colorless, lifeless, budget-saving parts while you fork over 30-40 grand. Good for THEM (the company), bad value for YOU (the consumer). It's like buying an unpainted Green Power Ranger action figure. "Color is so badass" why, because it's unpainted? COME ON!!
dreamimage173 Unpainted? Man you sure don’t know about vehicles...You’re telling me this is unpainted? 🤣😂🤣
READ IT AGAIN! "Don't be fooled, everything about a "gray" and "black" interior screams unpainted, colorless, lifeless, budget-saving parts while you fork over 30-40 grand." I said "interior". Man you sure don't know about reading... And I never said the "outside" was unpainted, I just said it's a dead and lifeless looking color.
@@penvon 🤣😂🤣 Practice reading
Good video, an opinion of ride quality and ev range in miles would have been helpful.
if the battery's are empty will it just still be able to drive on petrol until its charged , and what is it like over bumps and pot holes
what is the suspension like on the rav4 design model is it hard or is it soft
Cars with a bright colour are 10% less likely to have an accident than dark coloured ones
What's your opinion of your test drive versus Consumer Reports grading of the Road Test compared to the 2019 Forester?
We would like to compare the forester for ourselves before passing personal judgement on that.
What colour was this rav4 you guys are reviewing?.
Wow! Such a great view. After watching this I really dont have to look for any more reviews on this SUV. Please let me know if you can change the speed dial in Km/hr as I want to Import this car to Pakistan from UK. Thanks!
Yes, using the steering wheel button controls
I have seen that the biggest problem is that at night time everything is way to dark inside the cockpit.
There should be more lights on all the car inside and not so many dark areas.
What do you think about it?
Thank You and great video.
Could easily be rectified with a few LED bulbs
Is it suitable for disabled person with difficulty getting in and out of cars please ?
How about passenger electric seat any chance to have this with new RAV 4 .
Great review well done thanks .
Brilliant review - thanks - can you tell me if the floor mats are included with the Dynamic. No paper brochures out yet only on line info...
I believe so
Very nice car, always loved Toyota,s
So the output of all the engine/motors is about 380 hp but electronically governed to 220. I wonder if the programming can be altered to increase the total hp available.
Hope you review a Keeway RKF 125
I have outgoing rav before this and my boot is completely flat and like this new one parcel shelf stores away too under carpet
I love mine but the battery is always showing half full, is there a technical problem with the battery? No matter the length or style of my driving. Edit: brand new it had at least one bar more if not two.
Why are you asking them that question?....these two 🤡 wouldn’t know....they’ve already mis-informed on so many aspects!
what speed can you drive on battery before petrol engine cuts in , and how far can you go on a full charge
Engine cuts in at 30mph. Batteries alone will give you around 11 miles of operation.
@@craigkane6199 thank you
North America regulations require in dash rear view when in reverse. Digital rear view camera up top are not law.
Please review lexmoto tempest 125
is the ride comfortable with pot holes..? is it made in Japan
We did discuss the ride quite a lot
Great review guys. Would have been nice to hear your opinion on the Sat Nav as some of the US reviews have been less than complimentary.
Fair point! We did not do a test on the sat, only to observe that it followed where we went. Apologies for that.
That’s why you use your cellphone and use Google maps to get precision directions 100x better than Sat Nav
My Toyota dealer made me install Scout App on my phone to use as navigation on my 2018 Hybrid one year less than this one and it it really bad. I uninstalled it and went back to Google maps which has real time traffic and everything you want
Jimmy Jam, what about in Australia when you run out of phone towers
Look at 30 minutes. What do you think? crowded?
Hope available sales in Malaysia
Why on earth is there no height adjustment on the passenger seat ? you can buy most cars for loads less cash and still get height adjustment , another own goal for toyota and a deal breaker to me.
The same is in many manufacturers also sadly. It is a bug bear for me too. My JCW Mini has the adjustable drivers but only semi adjustable passenger
For that kind of money I expect an adjustable seat even if it's manual.
@@Gordi This is a bug bear of mine too. MOST manufacturers do it. I have a £24,000 Mini Cooper JCW that I had to pay extra for, for an adjustable passenger seat!
What makes passenger seat worse is its very high. Many complaints it's way too high. I'm 5'11" and my hair brushes the ceiling. Not for taller passengers.
@@James-rd9mo The passenger is usually a shorter woman, no need to spend more money on her.
Hi, this is a STYLE version, right?
In the UK they call it as the DYNAMIC version
Goodness you two talk a lot of crap about "design" when discussing the front and rear of the vehicle.
組立工場でこれ作ってます
if you use the 'pulse and glide' technique, you don't need to go anywhere near the EV button
what the hell are they talking about? The front end looks cool. Get it in deep midnight black and it'll looks like Darth Vader!
Or a storm trooper when in a safer white
Is the ride comfortable with pot holes..? Is it made in Turkmenistan?
It doesn't look like Turkmenistan has any car manufacturing industry - that GOOGLE revealed. RAV4s have been relatively comfortable ride - for a small/med SUV.
No, it's pretty stiff. If you live in Western Europe they are shipped from Japan.
Where is off road test?
Very useful & detailed information 👍... but a bit too long by 10 minutes
I am going to disagree with you about the C-HR because they have very little in common at the front infavtvtge C-HR has the button more design of the previous Rav4. The Rav4 design language is supposed to be the in keeping with tgere larger suv and pickup models The Tacoma, Tundra, new hi-lux and land cruiser 200 ( which sadly we do not get in the U.K.)
The Rav4 is The meant to represent the introduction to these vehicle. Where the C-HR is very much a cuv and it design language is more in keeping with there car range. This was confirmed by Toyota design team in the USA.
I totally agree with Toyota there is no C-HR design language is in the New Rav4 the old rav4 yes. In think your trying very hard to see something that's both there.
When you where asked to explain why you felt it look like the C-HR you didn't you talked about the lines of the new design language for larger suv and pickups you made no comparison to C-HR so I do not understand your co host comments.
Your design eye is very poor it got nothing of the sort, other than being flat from the window down like most other sub tgere no resemblance if anything the new korando share a look with Toyota not the other way.
39 mpg for a new hybrid seems low. Nice vehicle though, but no Apple car play??
it does have it. It doesn't have android
It has Apple CarPlay in the US, UK and Ireland cars don’t have it for some reason. It’s a joke for a 2019 car at this price point not to have it, all of the competitors do so why not Toyota?
39mpg is US mpg which destroys other hybrid suvs at this time.
Stop touching it so much !!!
No power folding windows in the USA -SAD
Sorry to disappoint you but they are powered
Good car, but a face only Darth Vader's mother could love.
Me, Malcolm or the car?
@@motorsforthemasses I was thinking about the car, but take it as you will...
However a storm troopers mother would love it in white
Try actually buying one in the UK! its insane, Toyota are pushing this car like crazy but you can't get one for half a year!
Rob Sillygoos, same in Australia
They sure did waffle a lot.
lol you guys think this is a HUGE SUV ? then what do u call a Land Cruiser ?
Gigantic
“Hybrid suv thing”
Very poor understanding of the drive system…sheesh
Why?
@@motorsforthemasses It's not a CVT like all other belt drive CVTs - yes, it's constantly variable, but that's where it stops.
In fact, if it's like PRIUS, it stops about ¼ to 1/3 of the time. Then the rest of the time, the Hybrid Synergy Drive works very differently, driving a clever planetary gearset joining the engine and 2 Electric Motors.
The British used to own the World automobile market. What happened?
Europe and Asia grew!
Lucas electrics for one! Should I continue? I've owned ONE British vehicle in my lifetime for all of 4 months. It was less than a year old and was in the garage 4 times during our nightmare. Sometimes, people want to drive elsewhere than just back to the mechanic.
Brexit
no spare wheel again like mine ...
Ridiculous to only have a space saver only option for Australia, almost a deal breaker against the Forester, strangely even though Toyota say a full size spare is not available, a full size spare will fit in the tire well.
If Toyota's view is correct? My Golf diesel (thanks to its alternator), is a self charging hybrid!.......... It's just marketing hype to try and differentiate Toyota's ancient hybrid drive from PHEV's!
You can run on only electric power in a diesel golf? Impressive...
@@guitarcarfanatic Yeah. Just keep turning the starter motor over and get it upto, oooooooo, 5mph!
The concept of hybrid is a merge of more than one concept....ie electric propulsion and petrol propulsion in this instance so sorry....but not the same.
@@motorsforthemasses
So you "plug in" to a petrol pump?... Interesting!
If you use the same metric, you "plug in" a BEV occasionally to an "external energy source" (electrical supply), and also "charge" by regen braking, making it a "Self charging vehicle"
It's not.
@@rogerstarkey5390 I didn't mention plugging in to a petrol pump
You are lying on emissions . Toyota claim front wheel emission 105 co2 and all wheel drive have only 103 co2 and this uk
Are you sure about that? We use the information Toyota give us
@@motorsforthemasses well it says on the website
@@ranjanimathangaweera9509 www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/rav4/specs-and-accessories and download price list. Says there 105 fwd 108 AWD and in the brochure on that same page, 102 fwd and 105 AWD. We asked the dealer who confirmed what we reported. We were not 'lying'
@@motorsforthemasses when I bought one last month (still hasn't arrived) on the website to build your own car for a dynamic add it said 102g/km or something
No apple CarPlay is the deal breaker for me.
Mark Innes it’s a joke isn’t it? Every competitor has it, the RAV4 in the states has it but not here?!?!
It will be able to be retro fitted at no added cost in Australia, when it becomes available later this year.
He does not know what android auto is?why are you reviewing this car?
Self charging is a slogan beyond stupid if there ever was one...
make your videos shorter. 45 minutes is too long on youtube to keep interested.
Self-charging hybrid!?!?! Another phrase to tell you that it's the same technology has the prius since 2001. Thumbs down for the marketing. Tell Toyota to get with the program and have 100% electric cars.
NO! I don’t want to have to plug in my car
Let it self charge 💥
@@jameslouis1627 indeed!
@@jameslouis1627
You have to *plug it in* to a *FOSSIL FUEL* supply.
And if you don't have a driveway and have to park on the road 100 metres from your house? And of course we have a HUGE charge-point infrastructure...
Depending on where your electricity is sourced, a good hybrid, with Atkinson Cycle engine and other efficiency gaining strategies will be more environmentally friendly - as well as far cheaper both to purchase and to run.
Self charging hybrid bs really
How?
@@motorsforthemasses
It can't "self charge" without a regular infusion of fossil fuel.
"Self charge" implies it can "charge itself" indefinitely.
It's a FOSSIL FUEL vehicle with electric energy *recovery*.
@@rogerstarkey5390 Isn't that pointlessly taking the phrase literally, rather than them just using the phrase to highlight that you do not need to plug it in to an external source?
The Self Charging marketing phrase is an attempt by Toyota to suggest that plug-in cars are at a disadvantage. Nothing could be further from the truth. Having the gas engine charge the battery is inefficient, costly, and more polluting. Most plug-in vehicles have double the mpg rating of a pure hybrid, are less expensive to operate, less polluting, and when charged at home eliminate gas station wasted time.
mark mayfield . it is quite funny that they use a flaw as an advertisement for the car. my hybrid self charges too. when it does , i get about 65mpg in petrol economy . when i plug it in to my house i get about 130 mpg in petrol economy. at least i would if it wasn't so inconvenient.... lol.... i was planning to buy in this toyota until i was told that they don't have a plug in.
was enjoying the review until they didnt even know apple or android play is. your reviewing a latest car do your research. poor review
No, I know exactly what it is!!! Do not tar one with anothers' brush.
The battery is so small it can self charge 1kw a complete joke
You're wrong, it's 4.225 kilowatt hour.
looks cheap on the inside
R u joking?
surely not, touch it and you will be impressed about the lots of soft touch materials
Looks great to me
THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SELF CHARGING HYBRID!
(It's a fossil car with electric assist!)
Maybe you need to look up the definition of hybrid. For cars, it is a mix of internal combustion and electric drive. They are not calling it a self charging EV, they are differentiating it from PHEVs (although it does smack of marketing BS). I do wish Toyota would offer more of their vehicles as PHEVs though.
@@dingbatt Depending on where your electricity is sourced, a good hybrid, with Atkinson Cycle engine and other efficiency gaining strategies will be more environmentally friendly - as well as far cheaper both to purchase and to run. Here in Australia with dirty electricity, EV or PHEV make no sense.
Ummm... yes. There is! Toyota have self charging hybrid. Thats exactly what they are. Toyota basically invented it. What the hell are you on about.
The best company in old days is the slowest to adapt todays technology. How typical it is. Toyota will gradually die out no matter how good they are on fossile cars. This is just the desterny.If they are still sleeping on the old success, they will die faster.