2014 Toyota RAV4

The Toyota RAV4 has acquired over time. What started as a bunched crossover SUV with commuters in apperception has become one of the added accepted ancestors cars in the Toyota lineup Japanese cars dealer. The accepted RAV4 has assuredly adjourned abroad the final cues of its above SUV ambitions--a tailgate-mounted tire--but it's aswell become a added bound offering, with alone four-cylinder ability and after a third-row seat.

Taken in perspective, the 2014 Toyota RAV4 leaves allowance for the beyond Highlander, which had been awkward flush by the endure RAV4, and it brings its bearings aback durably to the bunched segment. But endure year's redesign did accompany some important new changes, in the way of adapted transmission, bigger assurance features, and adapted assurance gear. As it stands, the RAV4 is the middle-ground aces for pragmatists: it has added allowance than the active Ford Escape and alley amenities that are just a little added active than those in the Honda CR-V.

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Last year's redesign purged one of the actual vestiges of the RAV4's history: the tailgate-mounted spare. This year it's history, and the added hatchback-style breeze and lower stance, angle the RAV4 abrupt into a lookalike bin abounding with the Ford Escape, Hyundai Santa Fe, even Mazda CX-5. Arguably, the RAV4 has a added carlike face than them all, but it doesn't cull off such a apple-pie architecture in aback as the CX-5. The taillamps er XT. are pointy and shelf out, all in the name of affair assurance regulations. Inside, there's some animosity in the cockpit; this is a case in which the RAV4 bound and its abounding trims and surfaces leave us admiring the basal RAV4 LE's simplicity.

Once aloft a time—just a brace of archetypal years ago—there were V-6 models of the RAV4 that were decidedly quick; but the accepted RAV4 gives up those affairs of a absolute advancement in favor of a bigger ride and added carlike handling. There's alone a 176-horsepower four-cylinder beneath the awning now, but the six-speed automated with sport-shift approach saves it. Consider the 0-60 mph time of beneath nine seconds, and the RAV4 isn't quick, but it's quick abundant for a lot of ancestors needs. The new RAV4 is responsive, although never adventurous in the aforementioned way as a Ford Escape or Subaru Forester XT. Yet at the aforementioned time, the RAV4 rides lower, with well-weighted electric ability council and a acceptable faculty of center. All-wheel drive is just a $1,400 upgrade, and we like how the arrangement works not alone for brutal acclimate altitude but aswell for on-the-road handling. There isn't abundant of a ambit in the way the RAV4 rides and handles, but for a hardly bigger ride we'd stick with the 17-inch tires on LE and XLE versions.

The RAV4 didn't become decidedly beyond with endure year's redesign, but smarter packaging fabricated it added passenger-friendly. Abject versions appear with a cheaper upholstery and seats that are beneath supportive, while XLE versions cover added durably bolstered seats and nicer fabrics that we ambition were accepted beyond the board. The constructed covering upholstery in Bound models looks abundant from a few anxiety away, but up abutting it looks agleam and cheap. Seating amplitude in the RAV4 is about on par with the CR-V—definitely added acceptable than the Escape. But there are some flaws: The aback bank is beneath admiring than adults will expect, and its flip/fold apparatus is one footfall shy on slickness, although burden amplitude is excellent. Bound versions get a ability tailgate.

Safety ratings are best for the a lot of part, but the RAV4 has one unforgivable blemish: a 'Poor' appraisement in the new IIHS baby overlap aboveboard test. Otherwise, the RAV4 ups its assurance ante with eight accepted airbags, including knee airbags. Bluetooth is aswell accepted beyond the board; a rearview camera is aswell included, while Bound models cover blind-spot monitors with cross-traffic alerts.
LE, XLE, and Bound models of the 2014 Toyota RAV4 are offered. At the abject level, the RAV4 LE comes with ability locks, windows, and mirrors; air conditioning; cruise control; tilt/telescoping steering; steering-wheel audio and buzz controls; and an AM/FM/CD amateur controlled, through a 6.1-inch LCD touchscreen. We tend to anticipate that the abject RAV4 LE or mid-range XLE models are the best deal. The XLE adds dual-zone automated altitude control; a sunroof; and fog lights, to which the Bound adds a leather-wrapped council wheel. Bound cover a ability disciplinarian bank and those 18-inch wheels.
Major options on the RAV4 cover aeronautics on the XLE and Limited, with Entune app connectivity and digital radio; and on the Limited, a JBL audio arrangement with 576 watts of ability and 11 speakers.
Audio systems are noteworthy in the RAV4. For 2014, there are four altered levels of Entune touch-screen audio, with the top two levels accumulation the App Suite—Bing for search; iHeartRadio and Pandora for audio streaming; MovieTickets.com, OpenTable®, and Yelp for traveling out; and real-time traffic, weather, ammunition prices, sports and stocks.