Next generation Toyota RAV4 will be presented in two weeks

13 March 2018

The appearance and filling will be significantly updated

Toyota has named the date of the premiere of the new generation of the RAV4 crossover and published the first teaser. The car will be presented March 28 at the motor show in new York.

In the presented picture you can only make out the silhouette of the car. However, first conclusions can already be done. One of the key innovations in the exterior will become more severe slope of the rear window: the current version of the RAV4 it stands almost vertically, and the novelty piled forward in the manner of the Mazda CX-5.

On a technical stuffing of the car was also not reported. Judging by the latest innovations Toyotas, the RAV4 will move to the platform TNGA (Toyota New Global Architecture). Among its advantages, the Japanese company will carry a lower center of gravity and the drivers ' chassis setup. You will find these factors reflected in the Toyota RAV4 — find out at the end of the month.

For part of power units, the vehicle may copy the Camry and Auris. From the first Toyota RAV4 certainly borrow upgraded gasoline engine capacity of 2 and 2.5 liters, as well as eight-speed automatic transmission.

In this case the model number will appear immediately two hybrid versions. It is expected that their filling will move with Geneva hatch Toyota Auris.

But the diesel model will go on retirement: they are not in demand, even in Europe, not to mention other regions.

The current generation Toyota RAV4 was introduced in 2012 at the motor show in Los Angeles. In 2015, the car survived the update: the company's designers changed the lighting and painted a new front bumper.

At the moment the car with two-liter petrol engine, six-speed manual transmission and front-wheel drive is at least 1 449 000 rubles. The top version of Prestige Safety with engine capacity of 2.5 liters, all-wheel drive and "automatic" is estimated at 2 209 000.