Yep, it's a shame. I own a
Yep, it's a shame. I own a RAV4 with a 4-cylinder and I like the car but I don't like my car shifting down and sounding like a pissed-off weed-wacker every time I'm on cruise control and I start going up even a little hill. It's annoying. You have to watch it because it'll redline your engine, I don't know why the cruise control doesn't kick out. I rented a Chevy Impala with a V6 this weekend and that's when I realized how much I miss a V6. I'll never do another 4-banger. It's too bad because I love the RAV for tooling around town but it sucks on a road trip, no acceleration and bogs down badly on hills. That's no good in Utah where speed limits are routinely 80 MPH and there's lot of mountainous terrain. Funny thing is, the Impala with the V6 got gas mileage that is every bit as good as the RAV4, so they don't even have the gas-mileage excuse. Doing away with the V6 is flat-out communist.