We bought this car second hand off my parents when they upgraded to a newer model, my Mum has loved it the whole time she owned it and the best thing for us was the car was single owner from new, only driven by an old lady! (sorry mum). It's an excellent car for us, we have two small kids and needed more room than the small sedans we were driving previously. Ours is an automatic, which my wife was worried about initially as she had only driven manuals, but we have both gotten used to it. The main issue for us with the automatic is that unles...Read more

I bought this vehicle new (demo) from the Toyota dealer. I don't like the new body styles and was glad to read that they finally sorted all the issues with the previous models since 2006 with this one. I have taken it off-road a couple of times and it performs pretty well. Good ground clearance and lots of low rev torque. We initially bought it for road trips because it is easy on the petrol handles pretty well. Plenty of grunt for the motorway carnage. I would definitely want this vehicle during a zombie apocalypse, but it just as easily...Read more

I don't usually write reviews so soon after buying something, but I'm a bit disappointed in the quality of the RAV. It's a good car for sure and I do like it, but there seem to be an awful lot of rattles for a car that's under 4 years old, especially one with a Toyota badge. The 16 year old Camry I left for this didn't have any interior rattles, and that car had done over 460,000 km! I notice rattles in the RAV coming from several doors and the glove box and unfortunately mine seems to be afflicted with the apparently common squeaky tailgate la...Read more

I brought my Rav 4 cruiser at Apr 2008. Now 7 years passed on,i have to say it's a perfect 4wd for city drive and for off road as well ( To be honest, i didn't try off road that much,but the time i had,i don't have any complaints )
During the 7 years ownership,it didn't cause me any troubles,after 3 year's capped services,i switched to a local mechanical shop,everything is normal so far. Only consumables need to be changed,such as battery,tyres,break disks etc.
After it passed 100k model now,i feel the monument and driving feeling even better...Read more

Very happy with our CV RAV4, needed something with decent boot space, it can fit surfboard, baby seat, bike, pram plus luggage. Lots of useful compartments, keep finding more! I didn't initially want a SUV, but couldn't find a hatchback with a big enough boot. Don't regret getting RAV4.
I don't find the side opening door a problem, top opening would be a problem with our current garage anyway. Much prefer the great under-boot space instead. The rear tyre cover is locked when the car is locked.
The fixed price servicing for first 3 years is g...Read more

After finding out we were expecting baby no 2 later this year, we decided it was time to upgrade from my Kia Rio Hatchback (which I loved, I might add). I was a little worried as I have only ever had my Rio and was so used to a small car, so in my mind we were looking for a big hatchback (is there such a thing?!!) but hubby took it upon himself to find me an SUV I was comfortable in. I wasn't convinced we would find one, but after sitting in a number of them and test driving a few, the Rav4 was the car for me! While it took some getting used to...Read more

We brought our rav 4 This year (2010) and are very pleased with the car. We have 2 small children that still both need car seat. So no more straining our back any more when putting the children in there seats. The car is very smooth to drive. We brought the car because we found the boot space in our other sedan way to small for all our family needs. i would overly recommend a Rav 4 to anyone that is on the market for a 4WD. I've never been so pleased by a car before and all i can say is that the Rav 4 just has pleased me so much!

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We own a 2007 RAV4 2.4L Cruiser (ACA33R). The car was bought brand new and made in Japan. It's our first Toyota. We always hear people say they are very reliable.

We were pleased we did not have any issue in the first few years. We service and wash the car regularly and we only use Premium Unleaded 98 from day 1. Interior has that cheap plastic feel (we paid about $46K back in 2007). Exterior is OK. Lots of room. 2.4L is enough for us city driver but the accelerator was disappointing. Late response. The service centre said they could not fin...Read more

We have our Rav 4 from 2010, our CV model has been upgraded as we wanted all around airbags, so automatically they had to change the control board and air conditioning buttons to CRUISER type board (lucky us :))))...we love that doors hold the spare tyre and open on the side as we find it more practical for our needs,(more boot space,). We LOVE the square design as this car is very spacious, the tallest driver will have lots of head space ... we love the eyeglasses overhead compartment, we love cup holders, it nice and neat car...On the down si...Read more

Not too bad, not too good overall. I once had a brand new 2006 CV. As soon as after warranty period, quite a some "teething problems" started to show up. To be specific,
1. The power steering started to make clicking noises when turning to certain angle. After checking several times, I was told this will not affect safety. However, a reasonable person would definitely worry, when driving with such a problem, especially on a 100k hwy. I ended up get this fixed. Because at the time I was slightly out of warranty, Toyota only covered half of my ...Read more

We have owned a 2008 CV6 since new and have just made the transition to the 2.2 Diesel Cruiser. In this time the CV6 had done only 30,000 k's, but it was used every day in a country town where many short distance trips was the norm. Nevertheless, we still had to have the steering column replaced (a new and better design we were told), and the water pump was replaced because of perished gaskets (well that is what they said). Both are known reported problems and the cost of repairs was $1300. From memory, the extended warranty from new cost $1500...Read more