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2016 toyota rav4 hybrid4/14/2023 ![]() ![]() Load up a $34,510 Limited with the $1435 Advanced Technology package-which includes a 7.0-inch touchscreen with navigation and Toyota’s Entune multimedia system, plus an around-view camera system-and enough accessories and you can hit the $38,000 price of our test vehicle. ![]() However, Toyota offers the RAV4 hybrid only in mid-grade XLE and top-of-the-line Limited trims, meaning the least you can spend to park one in your driveway is $29,270. That’s huge, because it means that even with relatively low gas prices (the national average for regular unleaded was $2.20 during our evaluation), a RAV4 hybrid buyer can reasonably expect to recoup the $700 premium for the RAV4 hybrid in fuel savings in just over a year, assuming 15,000 miles driven annually. We recorded 31 mpg from the RAV4 hybrid, or 12 mpg better than we got in the last nonhybrid, all-wheel-drive RAV4 we tested. In our testing, the margin over the standard RAV4 was even wider than the EPA figures suggest. ![]() Yet from a consumer’s standpoint, the new RAV4 makes plenty of sense, offering an EPA fuel-economy rating of 33 mpg combined, or 8 mpg better than the nonhybrid. Only two have existed, really: Ford sold a hybrid Escape (and Mercury Mariner clone) through 2012, while Subaru introduced the XV Crosstrek hybrid in 2014. After testing this new compact crossover, we can only wonder why Toyota waited so long to bring it to market.Ĭonservative Toyota certainly had little impetus to rush into this when few competitors in the booming compact-crossover segment offer hybrids. (The Prius itself has also spawned V and C variants.) But now comes this hybrid RAV4, introduced in conjunction with a mid-cycle refresh for the 2016 model year. The Highlander hybrid was introduced in 2005 and a hybrid version of the bestselling Camry debuted in 2006, but in the past decade the only other Toyota to get the hybrid treatment was the Avalon in 2012. After it made the Prius name as synonymous with hybrids as Kleenex is to tissues, Toyota has been slow to expand its signature technology to other Toyota-brand models in the U.S. ![]()
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