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Beschreibung

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With more weight to carry, the 2.4 liter four-cylinder engine is less responsive at lower rpms, and gets noisy as it climbs the revolutions; but the four-speed automatic, which seems to be geared almost entirely for saving fuel, is slow to downshift, and sometimes, even with the pedal mashed all the way down to the floor, will shift prematurely at below 4,000 rpm! It has a sort of rubbery feel under hard acceleration, with power gaps when going from zero to sixty. At highway speeds the engine fine until you need a downshift. The engine noise is partly drowned out by the wind noise; neither are excessive, but both are clearly present. The engine is dead quiet and smooth at idle with the air conditioning off, but it makes a low-pitched, resonating grumble with the air on, and shakes a bit as well.

The four cylinder engine puts out a full 160 horsepower and 165 lb-ft of torque. The same engine is used to good effect in the Scion tC, where a manual transmission brings out its full flavor. The newly expanded RAV4, though, is now the size of a Jeep Grand Cherokee or Ford Explorer (at least, inside), and that strains the little engine. A much better choice might be the V6, which probably doesn’t have much of a gas mileage penalty in real life, and does 0-60 in an amazing near-7-seconds.

Kilometers: 653 | Preis: EUR 4563.00