9 - Compact SUV: Toyota RAV4
Here, too, the category's big guns are hard to silence. The RAV4 is without a doubt Canada's favourite, the SUV that finished at the very top of the Canadian sales charts last year. The generation change certainly got a thumbs-up from consumers. And with the variety of trims (base, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, TRD) on offer, the compact SUV's popularity isn't likely to fade.
“2019 was a highly successful year for the RAV4, which managed the extraordinary feat of relegating the Honda Civic to second place for sales of non-pickup vehicles in Canada… The revision for the fifth generation had a lot to do with that, as did the variety of versions available to the consumer. Then there’s the upcoming RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid version, which will probably make a lot of noise on its own when it debuts on the market this coming spring.”
- Vincent Aubé, Auto123
Our review of the 2020 Toyota RAV4 TRD