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Options horsepower at 6200 rpm and 246 lb-ft torque at 4700 rpm.
Transmission: Four-speed automatic , Five-speed automatic.
Fuel Economy (city/hwy): Four-speed 23/28, Five-speed 21/28.
Standard Safety Features: Dual front airbags, Antilock 4-wheel disc brakes, Brake assist, Antiskid system, Hill ascent/descent control (V6), Tire-pressure monitor.
Competition: Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Jeep Liberty, Kia Sportage, Mazda Tribute, Subaru Forester.
It's not often that you find Toyota playing catch-up with any car, much less in a category that it created just a few years before.
But that's exactly what happened with the RAV4, a vehicle that almost single-handedly created a new wave of small, car-based SUVs in the late 1990s that were easy to drive but looked and performed like their truck-based cousins.
Before there was a Ford Escape or Honda CRV -- and, indeed, before all today's crossover vehicles started to gain in popularity -- there was the innovative little RAV4 from Toyota. It shook up the auto industry by offering many of the advantages of an SUV, like a tough look, big cargo space and all-wheel drive, without any of the nasty drawbacks, like a bouncy ride and awful gas mileage.
Fast forward to 2005, and the RAV4 was already starting to look like a has-been. An explosion in sales of small SUVs brought with it unprecedented competition for new buyers, and products from all over the world had improved to offer more space and power than the original RAV4 -- including some with a third-row seat and big V6 engine.
Well, Toyota decided to one-up the competitors in 2006 by creating an all-new RAV4, one that offers a lot more power, space and refinement than most other SUVs in its class.
The first thing Toyota had to do was fix the RAV4's growing reputation as a wimpy "cute ute" by finally making a V6 engine available.
WomanMotorist.com