Or at least the one with the broadest appeal to the broadest range of buyers. Toyota can’t afford not to have the best five-passenger crossover in the market. It is the top-selling Toyota, the top-selling non-truck nameplate in America, and the RAV4 resides in the largest vehicle segment in America. The RAV4 is Toyota’s most important model. You can pass them to your children as reliable used cars. You don’t burn valuable vacation days dealing with breakdowns. It’s reliability that most buyers think of first when they buy a Toyota. Nor is Toyota known for flashy good looks, though many of its cars are quite handsomely styled. Toyota is not widely known as a performance brand, though it is and always has been. Toyota calls this QDR, and you won’t attend a media launch for any new Toyota product without hearing that term. The Toyota brand is built on three things quality, durability, and reliability. Related Story: Why Toyota’s RAV4 Has a Much Lower Reliability Rating Than Its RAV4 Prime Just two issues caused this fall, and neither are horribly broken engines or transmissions, or vexing infotainment systems. That score is one away from the lowest possible, and it has resulted in Toyota dropping to number three overall among the highest-ranked brands for reliability.

It looked as if the RAV4 was sorted out and would continue to lead the segment for reliability. Its models often score perfect for many consecutive years. That run is unusual for any brand except Toyota.

A perfect five for five each of those seven years. From 2012 through 2018, Toyota’s RAV4 earned the highest score for reliability from Consumer Reports.

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