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"Quick Review of the Toyota Rav 4 2014 Best for: Small to medium size families Gas: Great. This is not a gas-guzzler. We&amp;#039;d barely used half a tank by the end of the weekend. Who could drive this car: A busy professional that travels often, needs to pack up the car for work. Also, great for a family as there is plenty of room and a ton of trunk space. Dashboard: Easy to understand except starting the car. We had to read the manual (turns out your foot must be on the break while you press the push-button starter) with demanding child screaming in the back. When I think of SUVs I think of my sister&amp;#039;s boat of a truck that costs a fortune to gas up and takes up a better part of the road. As a certified city dweller I now only drive on occasion and me driving through the city in a SUV? Nerve-wracking. Thankfully when first setting eyes on the Rav 4, my husband and I were pleasantly surprised at its medium-sized build. My son was instantly obsessed with it, calling it the &amp;quot;Superman-mobile&amp;quot; (it was super-hero blue). We were able to install my son&amp;#039;s car seat in less than a minute\u2014locked and secured, no wobbliness at all. Which is what I can also say about how the Rav 4 drives. It was smooth throughout our two-hour drive to upstate New York, where a few recent rain storms left the roads rocky and full of fallen limbs. But it was once we returned from our time upstate that the real adventure began. We took a ride to our storage unit to pick up a toddler mattress for a friend, which fit perfectly in the trunk, along with our morning groceries. It was easy to parallel park\u2014a total game-changer when you live in a busy city where finding and fitting into a spot can literally save you hours of your life. But my favorite features were the BSM and LDA. The BSM alerts you of a blind spot while driving. The LDA beeps when you have crossed over to the other lane. These features were impressive, and I quickly became spoiled. Now, I&amp;#039;d never buy a car that didn&amp;#039;t have these features. Every time the car beeped my husband joked that this was my dream\u2014to have the car do the nagging for me. And he was right! Read more about this Toyota on CarandDriver.com. RELATED:  A Cross-Country Family Trip in the 2014 Honda Odyssey Visiting Family in the 2015 GMC Yukon Country Weekend with Nissan Pathfinder  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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