2024 Toyota RAV4 TRD Off-Road Proving Grounds Test

Those wheels just seem to be spinning spinning spinning and digging in. Not transferring power to the other side. The brakes are not locking down to transfer power to the other side. Very disconcerting.
The rims on this thing and many of today's cars are way too big! I want 16 inch rims and I would accept nothing larger than 17 rims.
(At the Moment I'm thinking that I would almost rather have 15" rims than 17's 😲) Not only is it not enough rubber for good highway/street ride and definitely not good/safe when on nasty dirt roads (easier to pop, rougher ride, less traction) but you also have to pay a bunch more money for these inferior tires for oversized rims! Idiocy for clueless posers. They should put 16 rims on these things for stock. Lower the price of the car and make stupid oversized rims for clueless posers an option. And enough with the painted black rims already. They look cheap maybe because black paint is cheap 😅 and they're putting it over expensive aluminum wheels that should be "spun finished" to shine or be Polished To Shine and this black painted rim is going to look like trash when it gets scraped and scratched and the scratches are all shiny silver against the cheap junk black paint look. Save the paint for the cheap steel wheels that are eventually going to be faded chalky rusty wheels.😅. Also, All SUV type vehicles need to come with decent lightweight all-terrain tires. Not street tires for and not some low quality downgraded flimsy version of a "SUV/light weight all-terrain tire. Of course they also don't need some insane overbuilt heavy duty mud tire as a stock tire either 🙄😅

Nice review. Your lack of enthusiasm says it all.

It is interesting how he mentioned the RAV4 over heating in the snow and not the subaru. It didn’t mention both vehicles made it up the snow covered road/ trail. Just interesting to mention the negative and not the positive.

Is this channel sponsored by Subaru? I really like his reviews. They are so good and cover what I want to learn and know.
Just seems to lean toward Subarus on a regular basis.
I like Subarus also. Just some Toyotas don’t seem to get a completely fair shake. Life happens.

I just dont get it. How possible passport did not come through.

my Audi didn't overheat in a foot of snow lol.

this road test is useless,why don't you put offroad tires to test the vehicule !

Looks typical Toyota wimpy. Epic fail😢

Will you guys be testing the Santa fe 2024?

Love the Army green. Are the TrDs models rated for 3500 pound tow capacity?

How does this compare to the Forester Wilderness?

Definitely NOT a good value - in fact, I've long considered the Rav4 TRD to be one of Toyota's most disappointing vehicles. Why? It's worse than it's rivals in almost every metric but way more expensive. You do get good looks, reliablity, and practicality for that increased price. But we can't get a 1-inch lift, 1-inch smaller wheels, real tires, and a softer ride for all that extra money? I mean, they made the ride quality worse, without lifting it! That's gotta be a new level of incompetence. Who was in charge of this project? The Subaru Crosstrek Wilderness gets that 1" lift, smaller wheels, better tires, trans coolers, and a softer suspension for harsh driving conditions! I'd rather have that, and I've never been a fan of Subaru! It seems like they actually know how to build an off-road trim, unlike Toyota, who seems to be forgetting what "TRD" means these days...

When does the Toyota Camry TRD come out 😂 will probably be better off-road hahah

intro never fails to make me deaf

It's funny that my 19' rav4 adventure model goes through deep snow with ZERO problems. I have everything that the TRD model has (just not the badging).

AWD is not 4WD

That being said, this vehicle or any vehicle that has AT tires and a skid-plate is worth it.

Our nations highways are abysmal, and running over road jerking on i-95 and having a skid plate protecting the vitals... Worth it.

This is not really an off roader CUV, if you want one better get a Subaru. If you want better than a Subaru get a jeep or a Toyota 4runner.

We're just tough on it because we know they can do better. And we know it's the bean counters that are causing this loss of potential.

Also, CUV's can be plenty capable off-road; just look at the Defender; it's just a giant CUV on air bags, independent suspension, and real lockers, or an optimally aggressive traction control system.

Just like you can't build "Defender" without a low range and locker availability, you shouldn't have a "TRD Off-Road" badge with a low stall weak transmission, poor gearing, and a watered down version of their traction control system, or a torque vectoring unit that hardly works

Ryan, your new course is eating up new vehicles, first the Honda Passport and now the Toyota RAV4. 😂

change the tires then see what happens

$42k?! How much is a 4-Runner? If you want do off-road stuff.
Wonder if you just get a base RAV add a lift, wheels, tires etc for the occasional trail ..

The gasoline Rav4s awd system on the Limited, Trail/adventure/trd pro, is great on road with its torque vectoring systems as it improves handling, but off road they are bad. We had better experience with the standard awd system found on the LE awd and XLE awd. Hope you can do a comparison.

Great Video, all the best from Germany!

Tires are terrible.. If you had proper tires, you'll easily go through all of these obstacles

Not sure why anyone would pay more for a less capable car? Just buy a Subaru!!!

I have this exact same trim level 2024 Rav4 TRD and it DOES have tracking on the backup camera.

I noticed an "X" in the field of view on the backup camera, and that leads me to believe that there was a system issue on this vehicle where the display software was not getting the proper steering angle input data for the overlay.

so disapointed with this rav4.. Guess i will keep hyping with the new tacoma

I have a fwd 2011 rav4 4 speed transmission and it’s faster than today

Come on, Toyota! Add a front facing camera to the RAV 4.

Toyota can't make the rav4 any better offroad or it'll start cannibalizing 4Runner buyers. And Subaru has no stock vehicle that can compete with that right now.

****It's a Mall car or larger pet owner to the vet vehicle, nothing more.

トヨタはランクル以外全部ただのなんちゃってSUV

What a piece of JUNK! After watching both of your videos and knowing the price point forget! I was hoping to pick up one of these as my 2004 Tacoma 3.4L manual 4x4 is getting closer to 200k miles (on the original clutch btw) but this vehicle looks miserable. Thanks for the review.

I would not buy it. It's offroader in name only.
BTW I never had 4wd overheating in any brand i owned. Unacceptable

are you in good standing with toyota ask them why the system over heated when you were going through all that snow maybe they saw your video

not a fan of the army green prefure my lunar rock color.

hey ryan the heated steering wheel is the whole steering wheel heated or just at the 10 and 3 position,i have a 2020 trd off road my heated steering wheel is only partialy heated i whish toyota made the whole thing heated,there reason i read or herd is thats the your suspose to drive 10 and 3 position .poor reason in my eyes,toyota has more than all the money in the world,so cost is no excuse.

TRD.....embarrassing

I like Toyota, but I just don't see this being worth around $42k. I really think the Forester wilderness and the Grand Cherokees are better values for unibody. You can even get a 4runner SR5 for $40k too.

Honda passport trailsport

Yeah, unfortunately if they don't make the clutches strong enough it will do less in heavier load then brake traction, it's happening to Honda too... That's where the Subaru deserved credit in your other video because over it's CVT it still held better then this, even the IVTM4 response to traction loss on other videos was so slow in comparison to top brake based systems just like this Rav4 here, so many wheel spins before it finally sends power, while i've seen some brake systems take half wheel spin and off it went

love this car over subaru

One big thing I hate about this show favoring garbage Subaru all the time and this is not real I know you getting paid by Subaru or whomever😢

What a beautiful vehicle looks much better than those cheesy garbage Subarus😊

For about $8k more than a forester Wilderness or $10k more than a Crosstrek Wilderness, this seems to be missing a lot. How can you not have tracking on the backup camera? That's stock even on the $25k Crosstrek. Nice car but seems really expensive for what they give you.

TRD❤

I wonder if it will drive any better with good tires.

About the hard climb-out: would a 4runner without front or back lockers have done significantly better?

What I don’t understand is if Toyota owns 20% of Subarus shares, why can these two giants share their mutual expertise on Hybrids vehicles and AWD systems. Doesn’t this make more sense? I guess we will have to wait until Toyota buys another 30% of Subarus shares.

Get a forester wilderness and save $4k