GameboyRMH said:When I saw the thread title my first thought was the "Trollblazer" (Saab 9-7x Aero), 0-60 in 5.5 seconds!
Not exactly a mini-suv but definitely definitely quick
GameboyRMH said:When I saw the thread title my first thought was the "Trollblazer" (Saab 9-7x Aero), 0-60 in 5.5 seconds!
Not exactly a mini-suv but definitely definitely quick
ultraclyde said:John Welsh said:In those years, the Rav4 V6 was the fastest 0-60 car that Toyota offered.
That may be the saddest thing I've seen today and I killed a mouse with a fireplace shovel before breakfast.
Good thing you got to him first. Who knows what would have happened if that mouse hit you with that shovel.
I'd have to believe that a short bed, short cab Tundra with a V8 would have been faster than the RAV-4
0-60 maybe, long run definitely no. And technically if you kept going well past 100mph a 2006 Celica GT-S would be faster than the Rav4 too. The 5.7 v8 didn't come out until a year after the 3.5 Rav. These are silly minutiae, but i do think it's funny that for maybe one year the Rav4 was the quickest Toyota.
Brake-stood?
See I was thinking that would be the 'proper slang', but i didn't know if people would understand what it meant. I'm better at flooring cars than making sentences i guess.
I had a ‘97 or ‘98 Explorer. Company car. The boss told me I could have since I was the junior man and it was just a V6. That’s funny. Sure surprised me when I floored it. Looked under the hood. No sir. 5.0 with the good heads. And a 3.73 r&p.
My family has an 08 RAV4 with the V6 and it is fast. It handles decent too. I have never noticed any torque steer either. Probably the best car my parents have bought, from what I remember it's needed brakes and oil in 120k miles. That's it.
It didn't feel much slower than my old E36 M3, but the RAV was a sort of boring-fast. Maybe because it's an auto.
If you have $3k, you might look for a Pontiac Torrent GXP. Because its a Pontiac, no one wants them. It has 264hp, sport suspension and a manu-matic. I see them cheaper than their Chevy cousins. I drove one when they were new and was pretty impressed for an SUV.
Rav4 V6: 0-60 in 6.5 sec
The Rav4 got the 3.5L V6 in '06 where the Highlanders and Camrys made due with the 3.3L, which wasn't as enthusiastic. So for a brief time they were the fastest.
A late stripper 4.0 XJ Cherokee is deceptively fast.
190hp, 2950lbs, manual trans, 3.07 gears
190hp, 2950lbs, manual trans, 3.07 gears
My friend ran that exact thing down the dragstrip and got 16.0@85 with a poor launch. I think 85 is about right for the mph, but with a good launch and good traction i think it would have been ~15.5. We later swapped a 3.50:1 rear from an auto in it, which just made the open-diff tire spin worse. With traction and 3.5:1 gears on an otherwise stock jeep i think it would be close to 15.0. Not fast, but faster than most people would assume.
...faster than most people would assume.
jharry3 said:ultraclyde said:John Welsh said:In those years, the Rav4 V6 was the fastest 0-60 car that Toyota offered.
That may be the saddest thing I've seen today and I killed a mouse with a fireplace shovel before breakfast.
Good thing you got to him first. Who knows what would have happened if that mouse hit you with that shovel.
Exactly. It was a me-or-him situation. But that doesnt mean it made me happy.
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