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Toyota RAV4 Pricing and Specs

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$39,760*
Toyota RAV4
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The Toyota RAV4 is available from $39,760 to $58,360 for the 2024 range of models in SUV body types.

Way back when city-sized SUVs were literally the size of small cities, Toyota launched something that had never been seen before: a small, compact, urban-focussed SUV called the RAV4. That was back in 1994, introducing the world to the idea of a high-riding city cars that would change the new car market forever. These days, of course, the RAV4 is much bigger, having grown into the medium-sized SUV category where it competes against cars like the Mazda CX-5 and Mitsubishi Outlander. Available in front- or all-wheel drive and with a choice of petrol or diesel engines, the RAV4 is a handsome and capable player in the urban SUV segment.

The GX (2WD) starts off at $39,760, while the range-topping, Edge (awd) Hybrid is priced at $58,360.

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Toyota RAV4 FAQs

My 2012 Toyota RAV4 rumbles at 60km/h

A noise or vibration that is engine speed dependent is usually associated with the driveline, while a similar problem that occurs at a particular road speed is more often a problem with a wheel or suspension component. The main exception to that is the differential which is part of the driveline but determines the vehicle’s speed, so can contribute a speed-dependent noise or vibration, too.


Beyond that, you could be looking at a fault with a wheel bearing, a deformed tyre, bent rim, worn suspension bush, bent axle or suspension arm or pretty much anything else. A rolling-road dynamometer (kind of like a treadmill for cars) might be one way of achieving the problem speed while a mechanic looks and listens on.

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How much can I tow with a 2024 Toyota RAV4?

There’s a huge range of towing limits for the RAV4 thanks to the sheer number of model variants. In simple terms, the non-hybrid two-wheel-drive versions can tow a braked trailer of 800kg while a two-wheel-drive hybrid RAV4 can only cope with 480kg. Which means that if you want a RAV4 for towing, you’re best to look at any of the all-wheel-drive versions (hybrid or non-hybrid) which have a braked towing limit of 1500kg.


Of course, those figures are for braked trailers, while your question was for a trailer with no braking of its own. In that case, the two-wheel-drive RAV4’s limit stays at 480kg, while the all-wheel-drive’s limit falls to 750kg.


Gross Combined Mass (the total weight of the vehicle, the trailer and anything being carried including passengers, fuel, luggage and accessories) meantime, is harder to find and you need to resort to the owner’s manual (which is a problem if you haven’t bought the car yet). In any case, the two-wheel-drive RAV4’s GCM is 2665kg, while the all-wheel-drive’s GCM is 3730kg.


I’m unsure why this last piece of the puzzle is so difficult to find, but information like this should be more readily available as it’s a critical safety issue and something that many owners inadvertently get wrong with serious legal and insurance ramifications.

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Why is the RAV4's 2.5 litre engine more economical than the 2.0 litre?

It all sounds a bit counter-intuitive, doesn’t it: That a smaller engine could use more fuel thana larger one? But, in fact, it’s all down to the hybrid driveline in the 2.5-litre version of the RAV4. Because the hybrid version also has an electric motor to help propel the vehicle, the petrol engine has less work to do. So, it uses less fuel, particularly on the official test cycle that determines these numbers.


In fact, in the hybrid RAV4, the petrol engine isn’t even running a lot of the time, especially in stop-start traffic. The electric motor can draw from the batteries on board to get the vehicle rolling, and when it’s slowing down, the electric motor recharges those batteries for the next green light. And when the car is running on electric power, it’s not using any petrol at all.


By contrast, the non-hybrid RAV4 is running its petrol engine the whole time (apart from when it’s at a complete standstill). And that, in a nutshell, is how a bigger engine can use less fuel than a smaller one in the same make and model.

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