I am a service manager and
I am a service manager and former Toyota/ASE Master technician with over 25 years of Toyota experience now running the shop at a nationwide used car retailer. Funny how Toyota is being dinged for 2 issues that they know about and have done everything they can to fix the issues. In my opinion, the RAV4, in all trims and Hybrids are extremely reliable, and very inexpensive to keep on the road for their owners. We sell tons of them. If you want to talk about the ones that cost my shop thousands of dollars and have to be subletted to their respective dealers....
The list is long....and all of my Technicians hate to work on them.
Ford Escape- Engines, Transmissions, Electronics, and have huge bills.
Chevy Equinox, Engines- constantly replacing them. transmissions-not so bad, but audio....crud.
Any Chrysler suv....Jeep Cherokee, Patriot, Compass, Journey, Renegade, What horrible crud.
Any Nissan SUV with a CVT. Costs thousands.
Any European SUV. If it isn't still in factory warranty...RUN AWAY! They cost my company thousands!
Mazdas, Hondas. Not too bad. But cost more than Toyotas to repair, and have a few more issues.