2019 RAV4 - Why would Toyota do this to us?

Typical car industry business strategy.

Such as Ford and Mazda
Dodge and Mitsubishi
Chyrsler and Mercedes...well sort of.

Its just a bit weird that its not an "across the pond" type of arrangement as it has traditionally been observed. Even if Toyotas are manufactured here.

This began between Subaru BRZ and Totota 86...the same year the BRZ was released(cars take time to design technically it would have been a few years earlier.) The Outback and Toyota small suvs have been morphing into one another since I think it was 2016.

Toyota owns a portion of Fuji. Subaru is great at making low center gravity engines. Platform cars are here to stay and probably taking over.
The Tacoma will probably never be affected. If it is it will be Toyotas tech dominating that particular project.....just look at your beautiful truck.

 

Looking like will need to wait another year to find out. Looks like 2021

 

I have been wondering, why are there two different bumper & grill combinations?

One looks more like a T4R and the other a Tacoma.

I thought Toyota, was trying to streamline production and cut production costs.


When they say that, It sounds like a BS excuses to keep prices current, and limit the options that are available.

 

Should be the same for the Sequoia. A sharp looking baby momma bus could give the Tahoe a real run for its money

 

Let the baby movers war begin

 

Got the wife one of the Adventure models in red 2 weeks ago. Not my Taco but it handles the really bad dirt/muddy roads and 6 inches of new snow that just fell around our place in mountains of NM, Driver seat fully adjusts, and front seats/steering wheel are heated and very comfortable. Can put a good load of stuff in back. Has a really sturdy roof rack I wouldn't hesitate to mount a RTT on. Really good stero. Power not great but adequate...can pass a car going uphill at 7500 feet Alt easy and corners great with the Dynamic Torque Vectoring All Wheel Drive (think that is what you call it)...and it gets twice the gas milage and more than my 2016 Taco. Won't be doing any overlanding with it but definitely some back road day trips. Saves my Taco for the really fun stuff and she won't be borrowing ky Taco because SHE LOVES HER NEW RAV4!...wife is really happy...enough said.

 

Gotta say I've been enjoying the hell outta mine so far.

 

Where's your fancy gold fan club sticker?

 

Wow someone joins this forum just to post their rav4 pics

Talk about dedication

 

Most toyotas have two grille designs

Started with 4runner. One is aggressive, other is limited for the AARP crowd

Avalon has two also

So does rav4

 

So weird how small this world is. I sell bolts and screws to nüCamp at their plant here in Ohio.

 

Almost 4,000 people looking at this thread.

 

People interested in the new RAV4 so they Google it and it takes them to TW?

 

We'll convert them all!

 

Nice

 

Me and the wife look to trade her camry in next yr on one She really likes em alot She said 4R is too big

 

The Ruby Flare Pearl looks good on the new RAV4.

https://www.cars.com/vehicledetail/detail/760095068/overview/

 

She was lookin at lunar rock maybe ice roof

 

Looks Lexus NXish from the rear. I think the darker colors look really good.

 

Regardless of what the non target demo(truck people) think they sold a shit ton of 2018 rav4 I think like 400k and plan on and will sell 500k in 2019. So might not be truck persons cup of tea but a lot of people obviously like them, btw how many Tacoma and tundra together did Toyota sell last year? I think somewhere around 320k, they know where they make their money.