Comments by "afcgeo" (@afcgeo882) on "Redline Reviews" channel.

  1. When it comes to fog lights, they’re not there to increase lighting. They’re there to cut through fog. For that, the yellower the light, the better, and the more diffused the light, the better, so LEDs are fine, but only if they’re yellow and diffused. Otherwise you’re better off with the incandescent bulbs. Also, a correction on the engine: the 2.5 comes with direct and port injection. It’s an important caveat because this type of engine is rare and eliminates the carbon build-up issues that all direct injection engines have. Finally, a correction on the transmission: It does not have a CVT transmission. It has what’s called an eCVT transmission. Those are entirely different than your regular CVTs. They don’t have comes and pulleys and belts/chains. They work with planetary gears. Very reliable. Also, the CX5 Turbo has been clocked with a slightly (less than 1 second difference) slower 0-60mph than this Rav4 Hybrid.
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  2.  @Jstrong774  I own one and not a single rattle or vibration or anything. Other owners I know haven’t mentioned any either. You saw one at an auto show and you know how a car actually performs? Are you high?
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  3. It should just die.
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  4. That suit and tie keep it from being useful.
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  5. High resale value? The GX?! HA!
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  6. TheBen Dover Supposedly, there is a throttle and transmission re-map in Sport, which tends to send the gasoline engine into higher RPMs, quicker, and it automatically engages the electric motors and gasoline engine from the start. I’m guessing that in Eco or Normal modes you rarely see or hear the engine go above 3,000 rpms, making it nice and quiet 90% of the time. The trade-off of the hybrid is its reduced AWD performance. This is no off-roader. It should do fine in the snow, though you will see and feel lots of front wheel slippage. Since there’s no mechanical link between the axles, Toyota allows for that slippage as it does not affect the torque sent to the rear. The traction control is a bit light. This one is just for light to medium snow. I wouldn’t try plowing out of 3 feet in it. There just isn’t as much torque in the back. Winter tires are of course recommended.
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  7. Much better gas mileage, rear seat space, cargo space and reliability with the Rav4 hybrid. Hybrids drive far more smoothly than the automatic Mazdas too, especially in hard acceleration. I have a 21 Rav4 hybrid and my in-laws have a CX-5 turbo.
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  8.  @ReggieGurl04  At almost $700 a month for a lease, you definitely won’t be looking into it. It’s a good proposition in low end trims and almost all sales of it will go to rental fleets, as they have for the last decade.
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  9.  @texan903  Minivan profits have been sub-15% for a decade! Most are sold to fleets, at huge discounts. The margins of high end trims in private sales are huge, but those sales are almost at zero now as these trims now cost $40-50k. https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2019/08/in-a-slowing-u-s-auto-market-minivan-sales-are-falling-7-times-faster-than-the-overall-market/
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  10.  @jimliu2560  NO ONE needs to accelerate 5 to 65 in 2 seconds. What you need is to learn how to drive. I don’t need links. 99% of reviewers only review cars because they’re car enthusiasts who only really like power and speed, regardless if it’s a minivan, a 1-ton dually or a Corolla.
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  11.  @jimliu2560  Everyone is waiting for you to stop liking your own comments. I’ve already named it. You’re now on mute.
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  12. There are ZERO reasons to buy this over an Insight. ZERO.
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  13.  @naveenthemachine  Except no, they don’t “destroy” it. In fact, after the test drive of the CRV and Tucson Alex still said the Rav4 is on top, and he bought one.
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  14.  @naveenthemachine  Except you’re comparing the wrong engines, troll! The current gen Rav4 hybrid has a 219hp version of the Atkinson cycle engine that hardly ever revs up as the electric motor provides a significant boost in power.
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  15.  @HemiLyfestyle  Wanna bet they don’t have a Toyota Pathfinder?
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  16. The Renegade isn’t based on the 500x. They were developed at the same time. The basic platform and engines are European, but the suspension, steering, AWD, HVAC and UConnect on both are from Jeep developers.
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  17. That’s because you’re not a skilled mechanic. Aside from the hybrid drive, it’s EXACTLY the same to work in and the hybrid systems rarely need any work.
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  18. Days? Try months!
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  19. What sleeping? GM has discontinued all sedans.
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  20.  @veganpotterthevegan  You do realize the Outback is just 200lbs heavier than the Forester, right?
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  21. Subie Bruh Unfortunately, Subaru’s reliability has gone way down hill and Volkswagen’s has improved. VW is one of just three manufacturers that use DI/PI engines and their DSGs are faultless. There may be other issues with Volkswagens, especially in cheap Mexican-made models, but engines and transmissions aren’t it anymore. Nor are drivetrains, actually.
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  22.  @brokenSnake  People buy Rav4s at high interest rates? You must be confused. Only sensible people buy Rav4s. This isn’t a Mustang or a Ram pick-up.
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  23. 650 miles on a car that only gives you 14.5 gallons in a tank? That’s 45mpgs. I own a 21 XLE hybrid and there’s no way that you actually did that, even if you hypermiled the entire time.
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  24.  @eddy67  Depends on my driving and season. I live in NYC, but about half my time I’m actually on the highway. In the winter I get about 470 miles on a tank. The other months I get 500, solidly. I drive gently, in normal mode in the city, and usually in ECO on the highway. I do about 72 mph on cruise control. The computer says my 1 year average fuel economy is 39.8 mpg. When I start driving aggressively, the difference isn’t all that big, actually. I still get about 36-37mpg. It’s also what I average in the winter, with the heat on. I have a 1 year-old XLE with 13k miles on it and stock Toyo Open Country A38’s (good tires, btw).
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  25. chooseymomschoose You know who is not a deciding body? You! Wagons are something specific in the automotive world: they are sedan-based cars with a vertical hatch rear 5th door. The Outback is based on the Legacy sedan. Volkswagen’s only wagon is the Passat, available outside of North America. Sport Utility Vehicles started off generally as passenger versions of pick-up trucks, but that’s not the industry’s definition of it. Only laymen try to describe an SUV as something including a body-on-frame architecture. In reality, the industry doesn’t see such restrictions. In the auto industry, the CUV is a subset of the SUV: a higher ground clearance, tall (body side) vehicle with a wagon-like structure, thar usually includes an AWD/4WD drivetrain option. The CUV segment is actually called a “crossover SUV” because “Sport Utility Vehicle” is simply a marketing moniker, not a legal definition of a type of vehicle.
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  26.  @MARTINRIGGSS  People even talk shit about the Wrangler and Bronco being slow. People are generally stupid.
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  27.  @jimliu2560  What does that have to do with safety??? Grow up and stop trolling already! The Smart ForTwo was under 900cc. The Mitsubishi Mirage is still sold and has a 1.2L. Now get lost until you grow up!
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  28.  @lloydcollins  That’s funny, because Alex did a whole two videos on just that subject, but thanks for trolling!
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  29. It sells for $36k.
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  30. MK7 GTI The non-hybrids don’t suffer from road noise so much as they suffer from engine noise. The Camry, which has the same engine, does too. The issue is that the 2.5 likes to rev high. Its power sweet spot is in the 4000rpms, and that makes it very loud. Toyota has said they’d try to address it in the 2020 models, likely by adding more sound insulation in the firewall. The hood skirt does nothing for sound in the cabin. It’s there for engine temperature control. Anyway... the Hybrid suffers from that sound issue less because it uses the electric motors and the eCVT to aid the gas engine in making that peak power, so the engine rarely revs up that high. When it does, it’s just as noisy, and you can hear it twice in the video, but it only does that when you push the pedal all the way and in sport mode. Otherwise it’s near silent as it runs on electricity and uses the gas engine on near idle to charge the battery.
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  31. TechDealz I had read it weeks ago online. I will look for it and post it once I find it again. From my understanding, Toyota said they’d reduce the cabin noise levels, not change anything with the engine. It also said nothing of doing this retroactively, for current owners, so if it bothers you, don’t buy it until the fixed cars are in the dealer lots. Remember, even if they do improve the noise levels, we don’t know how or how much.
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  32. MiM AZ They needed those slots for brake cooling.
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  33. “One brand managing to buck that trend - Subaru”. Meanwhile, Subaru ditched its Legacy wagon years ago. The 2nd gen Legacy/Outback were the size of the current Impreza/Crosstrek, so that horsepower hasn’t changed much.
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  34.  @mlow42  My estimate was for a year ago. You’re right, now it’s even faster.
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  35.  @basslover352 You forgot the GLI.
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  36. You are. There are far better options for that out there. Real business owners don’t care about looks. They care about costs.
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  37.  @breaker1685  It’s actually very simple tech that was difficult to come up with.
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  38. GM loses money on each Bolt they sell. It’s purely a compliance and research vehicle, so they don’t really want to sell that many of them.
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  39. RV Dreams In fairness. an AWD Highlander or a proper set of tires on any car would have done well too. The AWD system on most Subarus isn’t anything to write home about.
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  40. CrazyLegsMcGee The warranty is 5 years/60k miles, as opposed to Honda or Subaru.
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  41. This has no tailgate.
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  42. I got my ‘21 XLE hybrid for $31,600.
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  43.  @brokenSnake  If you buy it on finance you can still afford it. How you buy is your business.
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  44.  @MilkyWayGalaxyy  What’s with the $50k comments? In the US, the Rav4 Hybrid Limited, with ALL option packages MSRPs for $41,155 USD. The XSE shown, with ALL options, AND delivery fee is $40,850 USD. Even with a $2000 premium today, it’s still WAY below $50k. A Hybrid LE starts at $29k. If you want certain luxury packages that’s your problem. They cost money. You can’t complain about that. I can get into a Lexus NX 350h AWD for $45k that’s almost $3k over MSRP, but that’s the current “market adjustment” as they call it. Still a good price for the car.
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  45. Added noise for EV operation has been a federal law for years.
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  46. Except the Tucson’t real world fuel economy is MUCH worse than advertised, the acceleration is worse than advertised, it uses piano black everywhere and anything except the top trim uses absolute garbage materials inside. I don’t even want to start on their turbo GDIs.
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  47.  @joa8593  No. The current gen Prius has a 120hp engine and it’s been clocked from 10.3 to 12.7 in a 0-60 by various reports. You’re assuming each generation keeps getting faster, which is a false assumption. The first gen Prius was actually the fastest.
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  48.  @jimliu2560  The amount of power to safely perform those maneuvers is tiny by modern car standards. ANY car can do it.
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  49.  @jimliu2560  I’ve gone up steep hills in a 1.2L. NEXT!
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  50.  @jimliu2560  I got rid of it because my family won’t fit into it, not because I needed a fast car to make up for my my personal shortcomings.
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  51.  @jimliu2560  And yet they routinely do… The whole world drives them… and even smaller. Next troll!
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  52.  @jamsu7126  Any real enthusiast understands that different cars exist for different purposes and that our streets and highways aren’t F1 racetracks. There are just too many stupid trolls on the internet.
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  53. More likely Honda is trying to stay competitive in the NA market in price.
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  54.  @Cbo__25  The heated steering wheel was optional on this generation CRV from day 1.
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  55.  @Cbo__25  I personally love a la carte options, though $500 is a bit too much for a heated steering wheel. The winter weather package at Toyota is $900 and adds heated front seats, heated steering wheel, and de-icing rain-sensing wipers. That’s a much better value. The reasons why I just chose a Rav4 hybrid over a CRV hybrid a week ago was actually Honda’s lack of a spare wheel and that god awful infotainment system. I think they’re well-matched otherwise.
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  56. Jazenkow In North America, Volkswagens are much more rare than Europe.
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  57.  @saxambirsingh959  The 21 model did not.
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  58. Scotty went nuts 40 years ago.
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  59. It’s not a CVT. It’s an eCVT, which is 100 times more reliable than an automatic.
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  60. The Honda is for 18 year-olds who want a car that looks fast, but isn’t, while the Volkswagen is for the 30 year-olds who just want to have fun driving.
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  61. YasumotoUS You forget the major point of the R is its AWD. That’s what you can’t get on a GTI or the competition.
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  62. Brandan honda They do have many. They’re a world brand, more than any other, so they are less affected by trends like SUV buying in N. America, so they will keep the cars going, but on the other hand, N. America is their biggest market in profits, so they will add SUVs. I’m just trying to figure out what’s happening (or not happening) in their electrification strategy. Where are the hybrids or EVs? I kind of wish this GLB had a plug-in battery instead of a 3rd row seat. That would have set it apart from the GLA and GLC.
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  63. Not in my ‘21 XLE. Quieter than most cars. I think many sedan drivers are surprised by increased road noise in the back of CUVs.
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  64. Mo AV It’s actually the cheaper version of the GLE as well. The reviewer makes MAJOR mistakes in every video. He is not a car enthusiast and doesn’t do enough research. This slots into the luxury CUV category which gets third rows in Europe a lot. I doubt many will sell equipped that way in North America. Even Nissan pulled the third row from the N.A. Rogue for this year.
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  65. My 83 GMC Jimmy was smaller than a Rav4.
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  66. Get a different trim and it comes with non-black wheels and fog lights. With modern LED lamps, fog lights are pretty useless. It’s why all modern European cars have deleted them.
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  67. At $700/mo lease rates, these vans won’t ever sell in these trims. Chrysler continues to sell almost exclusively to fleets.
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  68. You can upgrade both for $150.
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  69. The fuel tank sender issue was fixed with the ‘21 model and the lost of changes is in the video, which you clearly didn’t watch.
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  70.  @Whileweweresinners  First off, the 3.3 is from readers, not KBB. That’s a typical score for all cars on there. Most negative posts are doubled or tripled, and most people who have no issues don’t go there to rate. Second, that’s for all Rav4 types, not the hybrid. If you look, actually look, you’ll see that just about all complaints are about the engine noise on the non-hybrid. I saw no complaints about the fuel issue for over a year there. So to your comment: Stop being a pathetic online troll.
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  71. My 2005 Camry has a molded (soft) plastic dash that still looks brand new. Hard plastics actually hold up worse to UV exposure and tend to develop creeks and rattles. The majority of the doors on these are also hard plastic and your arms/hands are constantly on there.
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  72. DSTY repeat after everyone else... TURBOCHARGED
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  73. Depends on the condition of it and how many miles they have. These are sought after, so they are pretty expensive. I just looked them up and the few that are around 60k-70k fetch around $12,000-$13,000.
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  74. Shawn Warnick Well... everyone likes premium gadgets. The issue is price. If it was free, everyone would take it. Anyway, the sweet spot for Rav4s is the XLE trim. That’s what Toyota sells the most. It’s the most value for the dollar.
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  75. Maxwell Adams https://amp.reddit.com/r/rav4club/comments/dpnc7m/2020_gas_rav4s_will_have_hood_insulation/
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  76. TheBen Dover When a dealer cuts you a check, it’s a sale, not a trade-in. You get more in a trade-in and you pay less new car sales tax in a trade-in as well, as the trade value is subtracted from the new car sales total.
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  77. Yeah, those DI 1.5s with turbos sure are reliable (not).
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  78. ezekiel1hen Absolutely dumb people though.
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  79. I believe you can still get a FWD Jeep Cherokee 4cyl with a manual.
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  80. H engines always sound like that.
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  81. Yes.
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  82. One for each car they make. Those sell, so why not SUVs?
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  83. The B Class has been around the world for decades, just not the US, so it’s not much of an add-on.
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  84. It’s GTI, updated. What is there to say? It’s a good, fun car and the MPI system is good too. I’d get it with the plaid seats and a DSG.
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  85.  @Seattle808  Not the new NX.
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  86.  @jml9550  The 2022 NX Hybrid starts at $41,050.
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  87.  @jml9550  But you can’t argue things that way. Options are OPTIONAL and it comes with AWD, a 12” infotainment screen and softex seats standard, so there aren’t many options needed and most would take you far above what you can get in a Rav4. The whole point is that a base Lexus is already luxury and starts exactly where a loaded Rav ends.
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  88.  @jml9550  Who cares? If you’re not going to be honest to the argument, then no one will hear your side. If you equip them similarly, they will both be the same price, except you will have a few features on each that will tug their way… for example, the Rav will have a pano sunroof and the Lexus won’t, but the Lexus will have a 12” high def infotainment system, while the Rav gets an 8” lower def one. There are others. The whole point of the original comment is that you can get an NX at that price, and you CAN! Almost all Rav4’s you’ll see on the road are either LE or XLE and it’s for a great reason: the car loses value in the upper trims. Most cars today do as they don’t offer a-la-cart options the way they used to back in the 20th century.
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  89.  @jml9550  That’s all fine and dandy, but your statement was that “a new NX will be $12k more.” That statement is completely incorrect, which is what draws others to counter it. You’ve got to differentiate between fact and opinion.
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  90.  @jml9550  No… equally equipped vehicles is what you compare… or at least as close to that as you can get. That said, yes, one could order a Rav4 Hybrid for $29k. No theory. People have. I got my XLE with weather package for $31,600. That’s what the guy is saying… for the $41k that this Rav4 XSE costs you could get a base Lexus NX and they’ll be similarly equipped.
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  91. Where? They sell for $37-38k.
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  92.  @winstonwinston3487  Except that’s the top trim and all the competitors sell at the same price.
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  93.  @eddy67  It’s pretty much impossible to find a Toyota dealer who doesn’t mark up a Rav4 hybrid, but the mark ups are about $2k+, depending on the trim. Even before covid they sold at MSRP most of the time. The demand was that high. I’m talking about the US.
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  94.  @ciello___8307  100%! Jeep is the only successful brand at FCA in North America right now. Even Ram is dead, with only the pick-up being an American-sourced model.
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  95.  @atvroller7021  Fiat doesn’t own them. Stellantis does.
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  96. The package is absolute shit on both cars and isn’t actually useful. It makes the cars look like a 7 year-old played Legos with them and the extra height looks awful with the tiny wheels in comparison to wheel arches. The random matte black cladding, the random pumpkin (no, it’s not copper) accents are bewildering and putting on extra black plastic, but then put on extra silver plastic under it (in front) is moronic. No one with this package will go off-road and anyone who spends extra money on this is automatically stupid in my book. Dealers already offer all the underside protection in steel or aluminum and you can adjust your suspension with very inexpensive spacers or an actual lift kit.
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  97. With my ‘21 XLE the break-even is 2.5 years.
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  98. @ Yes, but at 60k miles they’re already abused maintenance nightmares.
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  99. Their SUVs are named after their sedan classes they’re based on by size, with a GL added in front. Wanna guess where the GL comes from?
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  100. Paul O The FCA Tigersharks work just fine. The rest of the car is the problem though.
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  101. For sure, but it would be very expensive.
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  102. Jerome Brown Except it’s very broke, you horse and buggy hick!
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  103. Joshua Rutter While the Passat and Atlas are built in Tennessee, the Jetta and Tiguan are still built in Pueblo, Mexico. The Golf used to be, but its Mk VIII production moved back to Europe.
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  104. Andre Arlieth The GLS is MUCH bigger though. MUCH more expensive too! You wouldn’t compare a B Class to an S Class, would you?
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  105. It’ll be dropped.
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  106. Stephen Hendricks I stand corrected.
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  107.  @brokenSnake  That’s their business, right? Not yours? You can have a $20k car and people making $20k buying it. That says NOTHING about the car.
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  108.  @KevinTkt14  I got my Kentucky ‘21 XLE Hybrid with the weather package in Blueprint for $31,600.
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  109.  @MilkyWayGalaxyy  A Corolla is an entry level car. That doesn’t mean that all Toyota cars are that way. The Land Cruiser has been a $90-100k vehicle for a long time. The Tundra is a $60k pick-up. Stop thinking only of yourself and you’ll start doing better.
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  110.  @brokenSnake  I don’t think you can even speak English. No one was talking about budgeting.
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  111.  @brokenSnake  The stupid things people do in this world don’t define a car as “unaffordable.” You clearly have trouble with English comprehension. This is why I made an example of even a $20k car being “unaffordable” to someone with a low income.
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  112.  @huajuanlin6995  New York.
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  113.  @kurts5717  I had the same numbers for the first few months. They drop. The AC isn’t an issue with this car as the AC is fully electric. The cabin heat is the problem. I am now at 39.5 mpg, cumulative for 1 year of driving in almost always ECO mode and in NYC. My tank gets me, realistically, 450 miles. I was getting better mileage last year. Still though… 39.5mpg in NYC is fantastic.
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  114.  @braetonwilson4296  The current Toyota CUV architecture borrows space for cargo space from the rear seats. You see the same thing in the Rav4. Small cars just don’t need to be limousines. If your knees aren’t touching the seat in front of you then you’re as comfortable as if there were 3 feet there.
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  115. The Rav4 will have 4 cylinder engines ONLY.
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  116. It’s nearly perfect. What it still needs is a limited slip differential for bad weather.
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  117. You’ll get a basic version that’s nowhere near comfortable. The seats are poorly padded and it gets poor fuel economy.
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  118. Despite their size, they’re extremely bright, and thus very visible. They meet DOT standards.
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  119. It’s a pointless review that focuses almost exclusively on specific features of the two trims that will see the least sales. Had you compared the Tiguan SE 4Motion to say, the Outback 2.5 Premium 2.5, you’d have had a completely different video with a completely different outcome, except that video would have served more people in actual buying decisions and garnered more views and subscriptions. I know you’re limited to what you can get from the manufacturers. but you need to fight for your own integrity.
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  120.  @joa8593  What are you talking about? The current Prius’ 0-60 is about 10.5 seconds.
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  121.  @olDirtyDangles  What are you even commenting about? Are you sure you have the right person? Also, no such thing ad a “gas pedal”. There’s an accelerator pedal.
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  122. dimoboychev Nope. Nor is he aware of the GLE. That said, the the United States, the B-Class no longer exists, even as an electric car.
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  123. You’d trade in your $18k new Impreza for a $40k Legacy Levorg? Yeah... Subaru aren’t that stupid.
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  124. Ryad Hasan Ahmed The 2020 Levorg comes with a 1.8T petrol and a CVT.
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  125. Meanwhile, true to M-B, 90% of what you see in this show model is optional and the actual base version won’t look or feel much like it, but you have to wonder if the GLA is even worth having in the line-up. It doesn’t sell all that well anywhere in the world and with this model that’s such a better CUV, does anyone even need a car like a GLA? Especially with even the A class having AWD?
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  126. That’s compared to the European top seller, the Golf 1.4 TDI? lol You’re an idiot. Top sellers in ALL countries are utilitarian vehicles.
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  127. You CAN’T genuinely take that thing off-roading because its tremendously long and low front overhang will get stuck on a piece if paper laying on a road. It has like no approach angle. Which is why 99.9% of these will never even see a dirt road, and that’s very unfortunate because these things are total shit on actual roads.
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  128.  @henryhonda8408  not a fuel gauge issue, but rather a fuel meter problem, and it’s fixed.
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  129.  @drunksquirrel2051  No, not really. They had a faulty fuel sender.
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  130.  @drunksquirrel2051  21 Rav4 hybrid has no halogen lamps.
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  131.  @mikes6853  The interior lamps are very easy to replace. Took me 15 minutes to do all of them, including the trunk light. The bulbs cost about $15 total on Amazon.
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  132. Not sure why you’re comparing full-size luxury SUVs to a compact luxury crossover... The GLB is at least 2 classes smaller than the GLS, arguably 3.
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  133. Manny Kings So to you, a GMC Suburban and a VW Tiguan are the same thing?! GTFO!
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  134. Manny Kings So then you’re arguing that you comparing, knowingly, cars of completely different classes makes sense. Okay buddy, good luck!
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  135. Too small and too car-like. No reason to pay extra for this over an AWD Camry.
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  136. Paul M You mean the manual transmission?
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  137.  @abep.3110  The passenger seat is still manual and the illuminated door controls cost $140 online and take 10 minutes to swap.
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  138. BROJAK HORSEMALE The 6 was developed by Jeep, not Fiat.
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  139. The Tigershark 4-bangers are actually very reliable, statistically. The tiny turbos seem to do okay too. However, anything Fiat-derived larger than 1.8 with a turbo should be avoided.
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  140. Hey, great review. One tiny correction though… eCVTs have no ratios. They are direct rotation planetary gear sets.
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  141. No. Just 4-5 months.
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  142. Aryrix 1 One word: cheap.
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  143. No, not poor judgement. The hybrid will be much faster and FAR more reliable than any turbo ever.
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  144. George T. It doesn’t.
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  145. The engine isn’t buzzy in the hybrid, the eAWD works great in the snow and it has no engine in the back. It has an electric motor.
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  146. Overpriced? I bought my XLE for $31,600.
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  147. Brandan honda Why? How? If you know their decades-old sedan naming nomenclature then you recognize this one. The SUVs get a “GL”, plus the size letter of the class - A, B, C, E, and S, just like their coupes, sedans and wagons. The GL comes from Geländewagen, which means “SUV” in German.
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  148. You can see it great in real life. It’s very bright and meets DOT standards.
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  149. Right Lane Hog The Prius.
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  150. Right Lane Hog Again, they would destroy ALL Prius sales and Toyota isn’t ready to abandon that brand yet.
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  151. Caleb Brown Baby Discos don’t sell, especially with third rows.
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  152. That’s just on the SE and SXE trims.
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  153. It looks like you can’t size down the rims due to calipers. If that’s true, this car will be absolute hell in the winter anywhere outside of Florida or Arizona. It already can’t stop wheel spin.
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  154.  @thisismagacountry1318  Nope.
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  155. This can REALLY use the 2.0 hybrid power plant from the Lexus.
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  156. Jaime Used copies are sorely abused. Not at all a car to buy used.
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  157. Killer stuff on the Internet. Yes!!! I’ve been saying this for years! I see them with Canadian plates and get jealous. Such good compacts!
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  158. f181234 But other Golfs passed it? I don’t buy it. It’s likely simply for added body rigidity. The R handles very differently.
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  159. f181234 Dual injection is there on the 1.8T, not the 2.0T... yet. It may be present on the next gen of the 2.0.
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  160.  @melrose9252  I work in a major rental fleet. We LOVE Hondas. Wish we could buy more, but Honda is unwilling to sell them. The only fleet that gets Hondas is Zipcar (which my company owns).
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  161.  @wynn_explorations2543  Toyota has been doing massive fleet sales for decades. How long do we wait to see those results?
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  162. Lukas With that nose, you have NO off-road capability.
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  163. robert bond I know it’s late, but it was a good question and you were given a bad answer. Hybrids do, in fact, use electric on highways. The difference is in regenerative braking and the split of electric/gas driving. In hybrids, every time you brake, your battery is charged up via regenerative braking. That keeps the battery topped off in city driving and allows the car to use electric power often. Hybrids always shut off the gas engine at idle if the air conditioner isn’t running. On the highway, hybrids empty out the battery rather quickly and then have to simply run on gasoline. No regen braking to recharge the battery and no idle time. They still run at low RPMs, so highway economy is good, but with hybrids, city economy is much, much better.
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  164. It’s funny that Forester owners haven’t been complaining about theirs nearly as much, considering the same 2.5 engine. Do you think the issue is a different starter or that most of the complaints are coming from XT owners?
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  165. Sienna’s AWD is all-electric now.
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  166.  @ryanstage3912  I do agree about that, and it seems Toyota has fixed that error. They likely thought that people usually find those buttons by feel. With the reading lights, I’ve never had difficulty in finding them and most cars, including my old Camry, don’t have them backlit. I agree with the window/mirror switches. In fact, I had to change them to lit ones aftermarket.
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  167.  @Whileweweresinners  There are no reports of this from 2021 model on. KBB rates it at 4.8 stars.
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  168. FCA Diesels are literally no power, no fuel savings and no reliability as they’re designed and built by an Italian FCA company.
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  169. Mr xXx No, I’m quite sober. Are you high? The FCA Diesels are mandated by the EPA to be recalibrated and after that update, they lose about 20% of their power and fuel economy. It’s all a part of the deal FCA had to strike with the EPA for faking their emissions. Look it up. Educate yourself.
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  170. ONLY if you get the optional 2.5 engine. Once the optional hybrid becomes available on the CC next year, it will beat it.
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  171.  @blackwhirlwind1245  I doubt it’ll get the 1.8 hybrid from the Corolla. Toyota has been employing solely dual drive (AWD) hybrid systems on its CUVs, so it’ll either be a 1.8 or 2.0 engine mated to two electric motors, one front, one rear. That means it will likely get at least a 30hp boost over the Corolla Hybrid, but quite possibly, the 2.0 hybrid plant from the Lexus UX which puts out 181hp. My guess is that Europe and Asia will just get the 1.8 hybrid, but North America and the Middle East get the 2.0. Either way, it will be faster than the gasoline engine.
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  172.  @computerguy5437  I do feel like the CX-30 and the Crosstrek are solidly lifted hatchbacks, much like the Kona, while the CHR, Seltos, and this are proper small CUVs. Not sure anyone should be driving them that fast.
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  173. Volkswagen certainly had the dimensions of its own car, they just didn’t provide them to you.
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  174. With a terrible depreciation rate, your lease rates will be through the roof.
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  175.  @haroldbeauchamp3770  100% incorrect. Poor resale values increase capitalization costs as the dealers are otherwise left with a car that’s a loss. Chrysler discounts this about 15%, buy or lease, but you still get a better rate with Toyota or Honda.
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  176.  @isaacogunmuko3947  Sales numbers determine popularity. By sales numbers, both, Pacifica and Grand Caravan outsold the Odyssey every single year, always.
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  177. “GLS” LITERALLY stands for the S Class of Gelendewages (GL), which means SUV in German. GLE is the E Class of SUVs GLC is the C Class of SUVs GLB is the B Class of SUVs GLA is the A Class of SUVs. How can people not see that?
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  178. No wagons of any kind.
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