Top version with a sporty touch
Following the Toyota’s Yaris, Yaris Cross, Corolla, C-HR and Hilux, the Toyota RAV4 is now also available as GR Sport. With this new top version, the focus is, as the name suggests, on sportiness.
We no longer have to count on more smashing GR versions from Toyota, but the Japanese are not done with the GR Sport versions yet. The RAV4 is now also available as a GR Sport. As with the aforementioned models, you can recognize them by special external decoration. The Toyota RAV4 GR Sport has a black honeycomb grille, high-gloss black wheel arch edges and window frames and sits on 19-inch wheels that are also finished in high-gloss black. It also gets a special front spoiler, which is black on the hybrid version and silver on the plug-in hybrid RAV4. In the grille and on the tailgate you will also find a GR logo.
In the interior of the Toyota RAV4 GR Sport you will find more outward indulgence. For example, you take place on sports seats that are partly covered with synthetic leather and partly with a suede-like material. In the headrests you will find the GR logo again and also on the handlebars. Silver stitching and silver accents in the doors and steering wheel round out the GR Sport party. At least, not quite yet, because Toyota also hangs a renewed 12.3-inch digital instrumentation and 10.5-inch infotainment screen in the RAV4 GR Sport. Things we already know from the new Toyota Corolla Cross. These innovations will undoubtedly also come to the other versions of the RAV4.
As you may know, a GR Sport gear is more than just cosmetic indulgence. Just like its smaller brothers, the RAV4 benefits from subcutaneous adjustments that make it a bit more sporty. Toyota tackled the suspension and gave the RAV4 GR Sport some stiffer damping. The power is not further tinkered with. You can get the GR Sport version for both the hybrid and plug-in hybrid RAV4. Prices are not yet there, but you can expect the RAV4 in the second half of 2023 as a GR Sport in the showroom.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl