2017 Toyota RAV4 Pros and Cons at TrueDelta: 2017 RAV4 XLE FWD by buff.uniballer

The body is attractive. Like most vehicles, it has a high belt line. I appreciate the smaller 17" wheels as tires should be less costly when replacements are needed. Entry and exiting the vehicle is easy. You can adjust the liftgate lift height to clear your head and the garage door. The keyless entry isn't as good as Nissan. There isn't a button you press. The door handle detects your touch and opens. Having had a 2010 Nissan Altima, I like the button as you can press it once or twice to open just the driver door or all doors. Seems the button gives the user a bit more control than the handle that detects your press. It's a minor inconvienience and perhaps we can change the programming so that it will unlock all the doors from the drivers door handle. But we haven't yet looked to see if we can change the behavior. Other than that, it's been a great vehicle. As I said, we've put 8k miles on it during our first four months of ownership. Our goals were a solid performer, not cutting edge technology or expensive consumables such as tires. I.E. vehicles with extremely low profile tires on large wheels were out. As were vehicles with a CVT. I never really came to enjoy the CVT experience in the Nissan, so we ruled out the Nissan and Honda offerings in this segment. The only thing that would really make this vehicle better for me would be an available manual transmission. But I realize I'm a dinosaur and few others share my enthusiasm for rowing my own gears.