yeah i'd rather have the six than four.

IIRC the 6 features a 6 speed auto... so the mileage shouldnt be that far off the 4 if you are conservative... and not to mention the six's speed is quite nice.

i'm waiting for a trd sport package and for them to start marketing this alongside the x-runner

 

i bet it's pretty useful too :chuckles:

 

i dont know if you are joking about the size of the rav 4 or joking on what uses it could have... but the new rav4 is more like the size of a highlander...

 

yup, its only 3" shorter.

 

when my fiance drives her aunt's rav4 it takes about 1 million years to get up to speed on the freeway

but ya...i dont know how much hp the current rav4's have

 

how much hp is this? 260?

 

it's enough....

toyota is really hitting them out of the park with these performance v6's... they are starting to scare me.

i'm waiting for it to be lowered and braced up. it might be able to pull .9's in the skidpad like the x-runner as well as 15 second runs at the strip.

 

Argh, why can't Toyota make a decent sports car again.

 

ok...my final stand. 4-cyl. sloooooooooooooo. takes forever to pick up speed to merge on the freeway (from experience)
6-cyl. probably not slooooooow! h:

so 6-cyl...GOOD
4-cyl...BAD

 

meh i personally think they just dont want to. they are jumping into the performance market for suv's and trucks because thats where the most undecided cutomers are now... the performance market is too saturated with cars that have been cooking for years in the underground like the STi and EVO for any new car to jsut come along and win anyone over.

toyota is working on the next revolution, which is performance utility vehicles. and when people start buying up the fx series and the porsche suv's i think that toyota will be ready to face them on that level. with the release of SRT and HEMI vehicles by DCX i wouldnt be suprised to see that becoming a really big market soon. the way i figure peoples leases are starting to run out on all the older SUV's released 2 or 3 years ago and they are starting to filter to the used market.... once they are bought up and the word gets out that you can have an SUV that drives like a car alot of people will be looking at toyota.