River Rock is a sweet color, I’m excited for you!

It’s about what you’d probably expect. Way better than a Jeep Wrangler or other less insulated vehicle that’s very vertical, but not as good as a more expensive sedan or lower to the ground vehicle. The RAV4s road noise doesn’t seem much better or worse than the other compact crossovers it competes against. With the factory all seasons there’s not a ton of road noise, and the shape of this seems to catch about as much wind as everything else shaped similarly.

That’s exciting! I highly recommend the new Forester, we’ve enjoyed ours so far.

That sounds like a sweet ride! Thanks for sharing!!

In the words of Dave Ramsey, “Better than I deserve” lol. How are you? I’m glad you enjoy the videos, I have a lot of fun making them!!

I appreciate you saying this! I do rush a bit too much when I film as I try to squeeze several videos into the time I have to be out each week. I’m working on slowing down and probably will film a bit less to not rush the newer videos I put out going forward.

This one was traded into them after a very brief ownership experience. What I heard was whoever had just bought it decided they wanted a smaller vehicle instead.

That’s awesome! I feel the same way. Not every vehicle we own needs to be a Subaru, as long as we always have one haha.

Yeah, probably. But I don’t often do vloggy type videos or channel updates for those who regularly follow and are interested to know more of this stuff. So maybe a couple times a year I’ll share a video like this. 🤷‍♂️🤪

Greetings from over 5,000 miles away! Thanks for watching my video. This big V8 American sports car sure was a fun one to drive! 🤪

Haha I wish, I’ll share the new car on Saturday! I actually filmed this one like 7 months ago (unfortunately it was before I got a much better microphone). 🤦‍♂️ The ‘full’ review of this car I also posted several months ago. Super fun experience, someday I’d love a build C6. 😍

Thanks for adding all of your thought and these points!

I think the 30 does because it’s smaller and smaller lighter weight cars are often more engaging to drive.

That would be such a sweet Baja! I really enjoyed getting to own the OBW, if you do decide to go with that one as your upgrade I hope you enjoy it just as much!

Thanks!! To my understanding the head gasket issues are an issue that’s been fixed for like a decade, or at least on the modern series of Boxer engines. I don’t hear about any head gasket failures on any of the forums I browse. Similar to a lot of other brands, I think head gaskets are no longer an issue on most stock power level cars. But thats just what I hear. 🤪

Thanks, I’m glad you liked it!

That’s a good guess! I did really like the Pilot I drove recently, Honda did well with it!

For sure. One of the OBD2 scan tools I use to use showed gallons per hour used and idling a 4 cylinder Tacoma I had reported like .25-.3 g/h, and a V8 car was closer to only .5 g/h. Definitely not much gas savings to compensate for the added engine and starter wear.

That’s awesome, I’m glad you got a good deal on a great car!

I’m sorry that this likely isn’t your type of video. I rarely do “vlogging” type videos, but this was more of that to provide a lot of back ground and context for those who follow my Subaru stuff.

I highly recommend getting another one, especially since you had such a good experience with your 18. In my case it was just time to get into something different and I’m glad I did. Although the new ride is in a couple ways an upgrade, in other ways it’s nots it’s hard to beat an Outback as a daily driver lol. Hopefully once heavy snow falls I don’t regret the choice. But I’m excited to share this new platform. Starting on Saturday! 😉

⁠@@AutomotiveAnonymous208looking forward to seeing your new ride on Saturday!

Hybrid XLE

@AutomotiveAnonymous208 Can I figure 7 seconds 0-60 @ sea level?

I would think so. The gas portion of this engine was down on power ~10%, that should equate to at least .6 of a second. These feel surprisingly zippy for “only” a 219 combined HP CUV.

@@AutomotiveAnonymous208 I think they feel quick because they're a smaller size and lighter weight vehicle. Although the model I had as a loaner a few years ago had the V6 in it, it wasn't too bad overall, and the time I had it, we got about 8 inches of snow....have to say the AWD system did pretty well considering it had the factory all season tires on it. Wish they still offered them with the V6. I haven't had a chance to drive the current model with the 4 cylinder, but at 200+ HP it shouldn't be too bad...my 2005 Ford Taurus had about 160HP so I'd think a CUV with 200+ HP in the size the RAV4 is, it should do pretty well...not race car speeds of course, but for every day use it'll be fine.

I think you’re right. My brother’s first car was an early year Taurus of the same generation as yours, but with the higher output 200hp 3.0 V6. Back then it felt like a rocket, similar to my 3.8 Impala before I supercharged it.

I'm also very curious to know what he got....

Haha, I’ll share what I got probably on Saturday morning! 🤪

I have a gas model 2022 Rav4. It’s been great and runs like a Swiss watch. It’s so straightforward, so simple, so intuitive it is almost boring it works so well. Yes it could use more power but it’s not that kind of vehicle. I test drove a lot of competition and it is great all around choice. I chose it as I own vehicles for 8-12 years and Toyota reliability won out. Many 12-15 year old Rav4s in our area.

@@stickbrick8219yup. my 2010 RAV4 V6 runs like a top with just about 200k miles. I’d love a new car but it hasn’t given me any reason to get rid of it.

It would be a huge performance downgrade unless he got the Prime model, but then that'd be going the EV route. Check out the moose test of the RAV4.

Very cool! I’m glad it’s been a good ownership experience.

That is strange that Toyota wouldn’t include those!

I’m glad to hear that! What kind of mpg do you get going 80mph interstate speed?

Thanks! Also, I actually said this was 0W20 like the older cars, it’s actually 0W16. I buy authentic Subaru filters or Wix brand from the parts store. And before Kirkland I use to like Mobile1. I had no reason for liking it other than I just did haha.

Thanks for sharing this!!