2024 Honda CR V Vs 2024 Toyota Rav4 Comparison

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I’ve got a rav4 hybrid. It’s my first Toyota after driving Honda Accord Coupes since 2008. I drove several CRVs and RAV4s before buying.

Toyotas lane keeper is inferior and MUCH more annoying than Honda’s version. It also gives frequent false alerts in certain conditions like driving along a tree lined road when the sun is low on the horizon casting high contrast shadows across the highway. It also freaks out if you drive on a highway with extensive black pavement crack sealer all over it. It’s incredibly annoying to have the lane keeper beeping all the time. Oh, when you buy one the car asks you for permission to share your driving data with the insurance industry for the chance to get a discount on your car insurance premiums. Every idiot I’ve ever heard of doing this ended up getting higher insurance rates. No way in hell I’d share that data with Toyotas twitchy and error prone driver assist systems.

Toyotas driveline is much more responsive and powerful feeling compared to the CRV hybrid. You have to get the revs way up on the Honda to get to the power and it feels anemic compared to the Toyota’s engine.

The interior of the Honda is superior to the Toyotas which feels cheaper and much more spartan in form and function. The Toyota infotainment speakers are pathetic.


The RAV4 shines in dependability and fuel economy. I don’t baby it at all and average 40-41 mpg in mixed country/interstate/city driving. The AWD system on the RAV4 hybrid works great in bad weather but takes some getting used to if you’re used to mechanical AWD vehicles. The Hybrid’s AWD system uses an electric drive to power the rear wheels. There is no mechanical driveline linking the engine and transmission to the rear wheels. It felt very weird at first when I bought the RAV4. It felt like there were moments, very brief moments, when the rear wheels were out of sync with the front drive line because of the differences in the way ICE drive trains torque curve versus the instantaneous flat torque output of the rear all-electric driveline. That weird feeling went away after the first three months of driving. I just got used to it. I had a Ford Explorer AWD drive for 8 years/287, 000 miles. I’ve also driven range rovers, and Subarus with AWD.