The fifth-generation Toyota RAV4 appears to be set for entry into the Malaysian market, as indicated by a teaser on the Toyota Malaysia website. Clicking the link leads to a ‘page not available’ error; webpage glitch regardless, it appears that the first steps for the RAV4’s Malaysian debut are in motion.
UPDATE: UMWT has revealed official pricing and began order taking for the 2020 Toyota RAV4.
The XA50 RAV4 made its debut at the 2018 New York International Auto Show with a pair of 2.5 litre Dynamic Force petrol engines, while other markets such as Australia and the United Kingdom additionally receive the 2.0 litre engine option, with either manual or automatic transmissions. It is still early days for determining what the Malaysian market will find under the bonnet, though the 2.0 litre unit could be a safe bet.
In overseas markets, the RAV4 has been pitched against the likes of the Honda CR-V and the Mazda CX-5, which are contenders within the same segment. In Malaysia however, the smaller C-HR is priced at RM150,000, compared to the CR-V at RM151,100 in base 2.0 2WD and the CX-5 at RM137,269 in 2.0 Mid Skyactiv-G 2WD forms, respectively, so we can expect the larger RAV4 to be priced above this range.
At the other end of the power output scale is the RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid, which mates the 2.5 litre Atkinson-cycle engine with more powerful electric motors for a total system output of 302 hp. Might this figure into Toyota Malaysia’s plan for the RAV4 in this country? Time will tell.
The latest model, codenamed XA50 joins the Camry and C-HR in adopting the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA), and featuring multi-link rear suspension, which has been claimed to offer better ride and handling as well as improved noise, vibrations and harshness (NVH) performance.
The Japanese SUV clicked into the 10 million-unit sales milestone in April, and collected the 2019-2020 Japan Car of The Year award last December, beating the Mazda 3 and BMW 3 Series to the top spot.
GALLERY: Fifth-generation Toyota RAV4
Oh dayum the RAV4 is finally coming to town in an official way but they came a bit too late coz I bought a new SUV already earlier this year.
You’ve made the right choice with CRV, buddy.
Remember guys. CRV is the worst quality with famous fuel pump, gearbox rosak, jerking, rattling noise and steering rack. Better don’t owned dangerous CRV. People are recommended to buy comfortable RAV4/CX5/X70
My CKD Proton X70 have its fair share of issues too. First, terrible fuel consumption and problematic DCT gearbox. On top of spare parts issue where the waiting game is 4ever
How do you know that X70 DCT gearbox got issue? X70 DCT gearbox is done by Sweden-Geely and shouldn’t any problems which I have just driven for three months. Did you own X70? ask yourself
Good choice
– X70
– RAV4
– CX5
Bad choice
– CRV
Same like finally, but family has purchased 2 SUVs within the span of 5 months last year. Still would wanna see which specs & ‘face’ it’ll arrive in.
Lol! I don’t see New Recon RAV4 pre-showroom selling at record dealer yet. But only previous generation Recon RAV4 still selling at used dealer
Well, we are exciting to see this again. It will be fun
“This Game-Changing SUV is very popular outside Msia indeed. If Toyota bring this Game Changer here, Proton X70 will feel the heat”
This is an unexpected news! Since the Game-Changing worldclass Toyota Rav4 is really going to be released here, the Proton X70 will be totally Game Over
Correct. VW Tiguan the Coty winner is better.
My fren work as sales manager in toyota said price would be over rm200k++.
Gonna launch as soon as July, or later around August.
well depends but there might be coming with hybrid for rav4 with cheaper cost rm160k
Wow seriusly? 2.5 hybrid rite? I tot it gonna be over 200k.
Honda CRV got the best package, power & space.
CRV – expensive, power but unreliable, low RV. Overall poor package
Powerful? Please test drive first la
Not only powerful. Honda owners can hear noise from car boot probably from engine. Fuel pump always defect. Other quality parts also tak bagus. Seems like honda malaysia are acting like old drb proton version that backs in 2015 – 2017.
This rav 4 share same platform wif harrier. So expect the price 200k.
2.0 dynamic force engine 170+hp.
Upcoming 2021 harrier also same engine 2.0 dynamic force, no more tebu. Current harrier 2.0 turbo 200+hp.
Both 2021 harrier n rav 4 have 2.0 and 2.5 dynamic force or 2.5 plug in hybrid.
(Like) RAV4
(Dislike) CRV
Guys, do not forgot what UMW did to Altis infotainment unit
You mean also not to forget that Honda Malaysia did to all honda models with poor QC that cheated to the customers. lol
Will be more expensip than overpriced CHR so sales will be in double digits at most.
slightly a bit.
Rav4 myself, baby Rav4 perodua D55L 4 missus.
Far far my friend. This RAV4 is designed for the world. Your Perodua D55L is designed for the underworld. You don’t want your missus to end up there too soon so get something better… like an X70.
This is definitely a good buy. I will on-hold my next purchase until this SUV enter Malaysia.
For same price, 1 segment higher KIA Sorento.
More than 200k, 2.5l Dynamic Force engine.
RAV4 is a C-segment car. based on UMW old tactic, i think they gonna put the 2.0. Because UMW tactic nowadays is all about they features (not spec) and safety equipments.
Wait the cat grows its horn, if the toyota gonna put 2AR-FE on this RAV4.
Check from wiki? it didn’t mentioned about 2AR-FE. All comes with Dyanmic Force Engine such as M20A-FKS and A25A-FKS.
(Like) Toyota RAV-4
(Dislike) Mazda CX-5
Like: RAV4 and CX5
Dislike: CRV
A hybrid? Nope. With the new NAP revision, hybrid CKD cars are no longer attractive as prices has shot up for Jazz & City Hybrids and Ioniq among others. Evidently new car launches for affordable subcompacts have omitted hybridised variants so that is tell of hybrid future in Malaysia unless the NAP is revised again with better terms.
Finally (humming to Fergus’s song)…
Having driven this beauty during my holiday in Melbourne and NZ, it’s unmistakably Toyota with all its gene inside. But it all depends on how UMW is going to play the pricing game. I bet the highest spec will be close to 200k looking at their strategy for CH-R
PLease make it competitive and affordable to us.
Saw a few units at Toyota Bukit Raja
Share some picture
Super nice
No JDM vanguard 7 seater?
Hello bro. Bring 7 seater. Aiyoo, rival with Santa Fe. It is better to bring with 5 seater just like CRV and X70
Hope will come with hybrid!
Goodluck umw…
knowing umw, dont put ur hopes up too high
CHR RM150k, RAV4 RM200k?
RAV4 200K maybe CBU. But if RAV4 hybrid CKD cheaper
What makes you think the hybrid will be cheaper?
with current toyota car price range
this rav4 will most like
normal one (kosong spec) around 180k
hybrid one > 200k
Safety sense is listed in specs for sure and equipments too. As long as, it is reliable, people will buy this
I doubt UMW factories here have been upgraded for TNGA, so this will probably be CBU, which means high price and kosong spec at least in terms of drivetrain, just like CHR and Camry. My guess for RAV4 is old 2.0 with CVT from previous gen Altis for RM160k. If UMW really wants to take on the CR-V and CX-5, they need to do CKD and give us the Dynamic Force 2.5 for under RM180k. Keep dreaming.
The brand new Harries 2020 is also a nice car. if CBU price about the same as now, RM240k is a better buy, if this are price at above RM200k.
Don’t expect UMWT to price it logically with the segment’s competitors. Remember they want money to burn on a stupid Vios racing series.
(Like) Honda CR-V
(Meh) Mazda CX-5
(Dislike) Toyota RAV-4
Bring in the latest “PRIME” edition. It will definitely crush Honda CRV sales.
Best of Toyota
Please make price more affordable to attract more customers, UMW
Even price around RM150k to RM170k, this and CX5 are worth buy than overpriced CRV
HONDA CRV is facing another ultimate enemy after x70…
Forester alrdy Rm178k and no challenge to X70 n CRV, I doubt RAV4 will be cheaper than that so nah no way it will challenge the two kings of SUV.
Hopefully is CKD from Bukit Raja, expected RM160k to be competitive, higher than that may put it loss attraction compare with CRV and CX-5 (ignore the C-HR as it is CBU) – X70 not in the list of comparison ? :)
All brand new incoming SUVs start from 170k up.
Nope. If you comparing price between civic vs altis, basically are the same price but civic is ckd while atis is cbu. Same thing goes to accord vs camry, same price too, accord is ckd while camry is cbu. 170k is main for CBU Toyota RAV4. So it is highly expected to be around RM160K for CKD Toyota RAV4.
CRV killer
Make this more affordable
Knowing UMW as distributor of toyota here in Bolehland, don’t expect this RAV4 to be fully equipped like in overseas. We might get different HU (UMW HU is horrible), less fancy feature or to be worst old engine and transmition combo just like new camry. I hope my guess is wrong. Also maybe this boy will price above fortuner but below harrier.
The difference between the regular hybrid and the prime (Phev) is 84 bhp because of a more powerful electric motor
The PHEV is highly sought after in the states
If UMW is selling the phev, expect it to be pricey, 200k
it would be interesting to see another model is sold here using a similar powertrain
Likely to be the next harrier
Another CVT SUV from Japan. Urgh!
Not all cvt japan are not good. But mostly, earth dream cvt from Honda is worst than jalco cvt from Nissan, Aisin CVT from Toyota and Skyactiv Auto Gearbox from Mazda
Like Mazda, really don’t like the front grill design
Hello bro, look at the picture again. It does not look like Mazda
Expect hybrid cost around RM160k when CKD.
RAV4 will be interested to all
This car will not be ckd. UMW expected to ckd the corolla cross instead end of this year. Since Thailand haven’t started assembling the rav4 yet, most likely this is cbu from japan. So, it will be expensive, but built quality should be WAY better than thai cbu or ckd.
Living in a town with a population of at least 250k, I think I might have seen 1 or possibly 3 UMW Toyota Harriers. Not even 1 Vellfire or Alphard is on the road.
Toyota car prices increases with each new model did it ever occur to you Toyota fanatics (those RV paranoids) that you are paying a little too much for your Toyota? Or u guys just never realize it cos as long as you can afford that 9 years repayment term while cheap out on it’s maintenances?
More and more ppl lost their job, economy is down, business folding……..sure, go buy your new car if you wish to.
Some of the jealous toyota bashers are most probably from honda salesmen, after got kena by honda bashers bashes brv new facelift yesterday. No wonder, they are so worried that honda sales are about to lose to proton and toyota. Even, honda sales will soon to be lose to nissan sales.
most exciting launch in 2020. but if the price is more than 170k, i really doubt the sales will be more than 50 in a year.
Finally my favourite SUV ‘RAV4’ will be launch soon because it is better than CR-V and CX-5. The problem of CR-V has the worst quality in its class. And the problem of CX-5 is it’s engine, according to Taiwan and Thailand, there’s a few thousand owners of CX-5 complained the engine blow ups the oils by itself. So This is why I love RAV4.
Please, oh please bring in the 8-speed non-CVT gb here as in US. Dont forget the proper head unit, not like the double bezel in Corolla Altis, although the newer 9″ is nice. Do not ever exclude the Lane Tracing. If with the non-CVT, this would be matched to the CX-5 and I am not talking abt power here. Mazda has been consistent on excluding their MRCC in their CX-5, even though their Lane Keep Assist is so much worst without Lane Centering. So, keep static Mazda. Oh, one more thing, the RAV4 is under the supported list of vehicles for OpenPilot, one of the reason I prefer CR-V before but due to quality issue in Honda, hmmm, bye2 Honda!
Two variant offer by UMW Toyota. CBU 2.0 and 2.5L gasoline engine with starting price RM200K+ – might adjust based on new Penjana launched by PM. It doesn’t come with “IDrive” controller like the one you might notice in most of the Western RAV4 review video. It will same spec like Taiwan. The infotainment system is ugly like New Corolla with a box behind the screen instead of fully floating screen. What a joke. Last but not least, RAV4 failed moose test. Launch expected on June 10.