Reviewed: 2013 Toyota RAV4 XLE

As we were trying to catch up on some of the reviews we’ve done this year, we came across this one from the summer that we missed.

Toyota’s RAV4 is one of the more popular vehicles in this segment, and that was before the refresh, now almost 12 months ago.  This new version of the RAV4 is significantly better than the old model, that said, is it good enough to compete with two of the best in this segment, the Ford Escape/Kuga and the Hyundai Santa Fe Sport?  That is what we look into on this episode of Rumblestrip.NET and Ten Minute Test Drive.

First Look: 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport

We had the opportunity to do a local media drive in the all new 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, this is the five passenger version of Hyundai’s compact to midsized crossover.  There will be a seven passenger version coming out later in 2013 that will just be called the Santa Fe.

We put about 100 miles on the Hyundai on our local drive, and we like what we saw, we hope to have the chance to spend more time with it later in the year.