Here’s Why I’m Buying This Toyota RAV4

rev up your engines now Toyota's been selling the rav4 since 1996 in the United States and so far they've sold over 4 million of these things there's a lot of reasons for that but the main reason it's here under the hood this particular one has a venerable 2.5 liter four-cylinder engine and in this case it's the redesign 2 AR engine it's not like the earlier one the burn oil from worn piston rings and worn Pistons these I haven't seen any problems in as long as you change the oil and this particular one is made in to a six-speed automatic transmission perhaps the best transmission Toyota ever made sure the early four-speed on max they were fine these six speeds get much better gas mileage and have much better power characteristics and today the rav4s come in various configurations two-wheel drive four-wheel drive even have a hybrid version they're really one of the most popular semi compact us you really might call them compact but got a lot of room inside just check it out nice sporty interior in the front lots of room in the back all kinds of room in this case they put the back seats forward so there's all kinds of room they carry their dogs around to here lots of room for the dogs didn't have that ugly spare hiding on the back like they used to they got the spare in a normal place it's hiding under here where it belongs the stylistic looks a lot better than those old ones at that ugly tire on the back the nice and turret you told sorry but it's got everything you need air conditioning digital readout steering wheel control for phone and for stereo and for what mode you can have displayed on a dash and this is a normal stock rav4 they also make them with third row seating yeah they can fit third row seating in somebody's thinks it's amazing but the engineers figured out how to do it these newer ones you handle a lot better than the old the ones that got disc brake in the front also disc brake on the back they stop a lot better no SUVs are generally pretty much gas hockey because they're up in here their size their speed but for an SUV a customer gets 30 miles a gallon on a highway in this thing it's about 24 in town pretty good for an SUV and of course if you don't mind the complexity and expense of a hybrid the hybrid drivers are even better you take a 2019 rav4 hybrid that thing gets 41 miles a gallon in the city because it's got regenerative braking which is really good gas mileage for an SUV and since it's a Toyota and other hybrid stuff is pretty much all based on the Prius hybrids a pretty reliable and I don't advise somebody to buy one that's got a hundred and fifty thousand miles or something some 10 years old when it comes to hybrids but if you buy a new one you're not generally gonna have problems till you get higher mileage like that on any Toyota now as you can see with this 2.5 liter four-cylinder engine light of working room now it is a Toyota so generally you don't have to do much work but whenever you do hey it's easy changing the oil for instance it's high enough you don't have to jack it up you can reach the oil pan drain it out it's got one of those dumb filters where you got to take the plastic container off and change the inside filter but that too can be done without jacking it up as long as you have the special wrench that fits on it now I do have to say honestly the newer ones that have CVT transmissions or the eight-speed automatics not a big fan of yet because the eight-speed automatics have had problems and I don't really trust CVT's of any sort yet now that said my son recently brought a new one last year so we'll see how it goes over the years if his CVT holds up he loves it so far he says it's got plenty of acceleration and gets better gas much then even the rating is but I don't trust that stuff until it's been out for five six years or more because when they put two eight speeds in these the eight-speed automatics were okay for the first year or two but then they showed they had problems as they aged so I'd wait on that this six-speed pretty much bulletproof they're great automatic transmissions so somebody asked me what would you have a 2015 rav4 like this with a 6-speed automatic or 2019 with an 8-speed automatic I take the older car an 8-speed automatic problematical this thing if you had no problems whatsoever I rarely ever see a problem in the 6-speed automatic but I see eight speeds all the time they'll slip they won't shift right they just didn't and for what it's worth the CVT and the rav4s that's only available in the hybrid version so that's CVT transmission it's pretty close for the Toyota Prius because when you have the hybrid you got to have a CVT transmission with the Toyota design because the engine has an input to run it so does the electric motor and the CVT transmissions can transfer easily that way so if you're buying a rare for the CVT it's gonna be a hybrid now it's time is gone by the rav4s have evolved they're much bigger vehicles than it used to be if you look at the early ones from 1996 they were a lot smaller stubbier inside they did ride as well there were a lot slower than these they've really evolved quite well with the whole line of ramp force and aside from somewhat weak 8-speed automatic transmissions that they use now they have a pretty reputable history of not having problems going high mileage I've got customers these things 350 400 thousand miles regularly and compare this front end with a 96 don't even look like the same vehicle they got a lot of style now I like it that they have it in 2015 put that horrible scowling grille they kept a classic grille on it and I agree with it now they have put a somewhat bigger grille on a 2019 but nothing like that big scowling insane one they put on the Lexus and on some of the Corollas they still kept it relatively conservatively to make the look stay and not just copy what everybody else is doing so really it's reliability that's kept these things being sold people want an SUV they want one that doesn't break down that lasts a long time has a nice ride is not rageous ly bumping all the old ones were getting a 96 you can find one they a real bumpy rides but these if a decent smooth ride to them plenty enough pickup pretty good gas mileage for an SUV so now you know why Toyota sold millions of these things give people what you want as times change it changed the rav4 to make it bigger more powerful but still getting decent gas mileage and one like this 2015 rav4 of course nothing lasts forever but this 2015 they can last about as close to ever as any car made these days, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 7min 3sec (423 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 24 2019