Used 2016 Toyota RAV4 Consumer Reviews
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Just OK
Denise M, 07/09/2016
2016 Toyota RAV4 LE 4dr SUV (2.5L 4cyl 6A)
16 of 22 people found this review helpful
There's a lot of road noise. Too much in my opinion. Rear visibility is poor. Unless I have backseat passengers, I keep the seats folded down. There are a lot of rear blindspots and the backup camera is no help with those. The headrests seem to lean forward, so I removed it. I find the steering wheel to be awkwardly small. I traded in a 2004 Toyota Solara with 210,000 miles. The RAV4 does not even come close to matching that car in comfort or handling. Hopefully it will match in reliability and longevity. Definitely buyers remorse.
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Where's the leather?
Leslie, 04/28/2016
2016 Toyota RAV4 Limited 4dr SUV AWD (2.5L 4cyl 6A)
22 of 31 people found this review helpful
Actually, I almost bought this car until I found out that you can't get leather seats anymore. Don't be fooled! The leatherette is really an upgraded vinyl. It will never be leather and don't let them tell you that it is better or even as good as leather. It isn't! Cheap! Toyota blew it on the new 2016 RAV4.
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Good SUV but missing A LOT of refinements
Jason in Nebraska, 07/21/2016
2016 Toyota RAV4 XLE 4dr SUV AWD (2.5L 4cyl 6A)
18 of 26 people found this review helpful
Overall, the RAV4 XLE is a good vehicle but far from great. I have many good things to say about it, especially the comfort of the seats. It's easy to find the good things about it, so I'll focus on all the little annoying things I find with it. I'll start with the Entune system. The software that supports it is poor at best. It's full of little bugs that make Entune incredibly annoying to use. While in USB mode, I can set it to randomly play songs from the entire flash drive. It'll go from playing REO to playing Metallica next. But when I turn the car off, Entune forgets that I want to randomly play the entire drive. Instead, it only plays songs from the artist being played when I got out of the car. So every time I get in the car, I have to tell it to play the entire flash drive again. When using satellite, I've yet to figure out how reliably scroll through all stations. It seems that after I select a station and then keep scrolling, it stays within the genre. I have to tell it again that I want to see all stations. I could go on, but I think you get the point. The instruments leave a bit to be desired as well. There is no digital display for the speed. Not a big thing, but something I was used to with my last car. There's also no display to tell me what the current tire pressure is in each tire. I'm told a warning light will appear if one tire is low, but it won't tell me which tire. If there's already a monitoring system for tire pressure in place, it shouldn't be too hard to give the driver just a little more information. I noticed that my speed readout is also off about 3-4% or so. I took it in to the dealer and said that on the interstate, it's consistently showing me going 2-3 MPH faster than I actually am going. I checked with 2 different GPS units as well as using a stopwatch between known fixed points and manually calculating the speed. The dealer told me that 2-3 MPH off is normal and is within tolerances. I pointed out that that if the speed is off, the odometer is probably also off. The dealer told me the it's also off but within tolerances. Of the 4 other cars (Chevy, Dodge, Mercury and Subaru) I've driven within the last year, the Toyota is the only one which has a speedometer that's not dead on accurate. So that means, it's shorting you roughly 1000 miles on warranty. I find the placement of the daytime running lights (DLR) switch odd. It's with the headlights. In order, the light settings are: off, DLR, parking, headlights. When I turn the headlights off at night, I naturally just move the switch down till it stops. Well, that means I just left DLR off too. It should be DLR, off, parking, headlights. What would be even nicer is automatic lights, but that doesn't come with XLE. I also noticed that for being a brand new car, it doesn't bead up water like it should. I used to have a job where I drove a different new car every day. This is the first new car I've driven that the water doesn't just slide right off the windshield when it is raining out as I drive down the highway. The water on the hood also doesn't bead up. The A/C also needs a little help. For whatever reason, the RAV4 doesn't remember that I like to have fresh air coming into the car all the time. Every time I start the car with the A/C on, it's set to recycle the air. Like the USB on Entune, I have change that each time I start the car. It also doesn't seem to cool as fast as other cars I drive or have recently driven. That may be more of a subjective thing though.
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Rav4 Love it more than my Highlander
Rick, 10/04/2018
2016 Toyota RAV4 XLE 4dr SUV AWD (2.5L 4cyl 6A)
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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HATE it LOVE it
justadriver, 07/12/2016
2016 Toyota RAV4 Limited 4dr SUV (2.5L 4cyl 6A)
11 of 16 people found this review helpful
My version of the 2016 rav 4 is the most expensive with the bird's eye view and thinking that spending 40,000 on this car would last me a lifetime, but I am slowly starting to count down the days until I am able to trade it in. Don't get me wrong the bird's eye view is great, the blind spot sensors are great, the car is awkwardly high and low at the same time, but what bothers me the most is that I can never get the Pandora or Iheart radio to work. And the apps for Toyota are really horrible. The car itself is spacious if you are no taller than 5"10 so far the I've only had one oil change, and seems to be running fine, but I only get 23mpg city which seems very low for an eco friendly 4 cyl. car.
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