Test drive: 2013 Toyota RAV4

[sjmmail...@yahoo.co.uk]

I don't mean to turn this into the SUVs site or anything, but this is one of those vehicles I've been curious about ever since I saw it at last year's Los Angeles Auto Show. The new RAV4 represents a very different direction for Toyota, at least in terms of styling -- so are we going to see a change in the way their cars drive? Perhaps a new personality to go with the new look? Find out in Jason's 2013 Toyota RAV4 review. (And if you'd like to take a closer look at the new RAV4, I suggest his RA...
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[nm...@wt.net]

I'd rather see them make Corolla wagons again..
And small pickups like they used to build in the 80's.
These SUV's these days are too bloated..
I want a *small* wagon, and no one makes them anymore.
Or at least for sale in this country..
And the Matrix is *not* what I have in mind. I'm talking
a true small wagon, not a baby SUV.
And I know I'm not the only one complaining about this.
I see and hear many others say the same thing.

[badgolferman]

nm...@wt.net wrote:

>I want a small wagon, and no one makes them anymore.

>Or at least for sale in this country..

Subarus seem to come to mind...

[nm...@wt.net]

Even those are not what I'm looking for.
Most are all wheel drive, etc, and do not get the gas
mileage you would get from a conventional 2WD wagon.
I looked at what they sell now, and the Forester is
probably the closest to be an actual wagon. But it's
more like a baby Jeep Cherokee than a Corolla wagon.
It's not really designed to be a gas sipper.
IE: max highway 32 mpg according to them.
The others barely qualify as wagons, as I define a wagon,
but instead are baby SUV type rigs that sit too tall
to be real gas sippers.
What I have in mind would get nearly the same mpg as
the sedan version, and sit no higher than the sedan.
And the rear would be more like the old wagons, and not
like the curved back SUV looking things.
It should get 40 mpg on the highway, same as my Corolla
sedan. "I actually get 43 at 65 mph, 41 at 70 mph, and less
the faster you go." A rated max of 32 mpg won't quite cut it.

No one seems to be making a gas sipper truck anymore.
Toyota used to make the perfect model, until they got
delusions of grandeur, and decided to bloat them up.