2024 Subaru Forester vs Toyota RAV4

Design and Aesthetics

You’ll feel a sense of pride driving either the Subaru Forester or the Toyota RAV4 with their bold yet sleek exterior designs and exciting color options.

Subaru Forester

Subaru is known for its clean lines and slightly conservative approach to its vehicle’s exterior designs. The 2024 Forester combines ruggedness and practicality, making this small SUV suitable for both urban and outdoor lifestyles and adventures. Subaru offers the Forester with colors reflecting its versatility, including Autumn Green Metallic and Horizon Blue Pearl.

Toyota RAV4

If you’re an outdoor enthusiast, you’re sure to enjoy driving Toyota vehicles, including the RAV4. This compact SUV has a bold, muscular, and rugged appearance, reflecting its robust and adventurous exterior. Toyota’s designers give their SUVs a distinctive look that any SUV enthusiast is sure to recognize. You have numerous exterior color choices for the 2024 RAV4, including Army Green and Ruby Flare Pearl.

Interior Comfort and Technology

Whether you’re driving up the mountains for a ski trip or going on a road trip to visit the national parks, you’ll appreciate the comfort features and technologies inside both the Forester and the RAV4.

Subaru Forester

The 2024 Forester has two rows of seats that can fit up to five people with plenty of room for everyone. You’ll enjoy the richly padded front seats, premium seating materials, and user-friendly technology features. As you move up the trims, you’ll get attractive features such as heated front seats, heated rear outboard seats, and leather upholstery. With Subaru’s infotainment system, you’ll get Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration, and on the top trim, you’ll get a nine-speaker Harmon Kardon sound system.

Toyota RAV4

The 2024 RAV4 also has two rows of seats for up to five people. You’ll find luxury features on the upper RAV4 trims, including Toyota’s SofTex seating material; power-adjustable, heated, and ventilated front seats; and a leather-trimmed steering wheel. Stay entertained and informed with Toyota’s Audio Multimedia infotainment system with an available 10.5-inch touch screen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integration, along with the available JBL premium audio system.

Performance and Drivetrain

The 2024 Forester and 2024 RAV4 have high-quality performance features that make these small SUVs appealing for both off-roading and highway driving.

Subaru Forester

Under the hood of all the Forester trims, you’ll find a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine that delivers 182 horsepower and 176 lb-ft of torque. A continuously variable transmission pairs with this engine. Subaru equips the Forester with its unique symmetrical all-wheel-drive system, giving it extra traction and stability, even in challenging driving situations. This system elevates stability and control, fuel efficiency, and capability by sending power to all four wheels as needed.

Toyota RAV4

Toyota gives the 2024 RAV4 a 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine with an output of 203 horsepower and 184 lb-ft of torque paired with an eight-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive comes standard across the lineup with the option to upgrade to traction-grabbing all-wheel drive suitable for light backcountry adventures. Depending on the RAV4 trim, you can get a Multi-Terrain Select system with four drive modes: Mud/Sand, Rock/Dirt, Snow, and Normal.

Safety Features and Driver-Assistance Technology

Subaru and Toyota take safety seriously and equip both vehicles with advanced driver-assist features that contribute to a safe and secure driving experience.

Subaru Forester

Subaru has a unique and innovative safety feature called EyeSight Driver Assist Technology. Using a series of cameras and radar, this system gives the 2024 Forester features such as adaptive cruise control, a lane departure warning, pre-collision braking, and automatic emergency steering.

Toyota RAV4

Toyota equips the RAV4 with Toyota Safety Sense 2.5, its bundle of driver-assist technologies. Key features of this safety system include lane-keep assist, automatic emergency braking, and adaptive cruise control. You also get blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert and automatic high-beam headlights.

Cargo Space and Versatility

For compact SUVs, the Forester and RAV4 have versatile and generous cargo spaces perfect for carrying adventure gear, groceries, gardening supplies, and luggage for fun road trips.

Subaru Forester

The 2024 Forester excels in cargo space, especially in the compact SUV category. With both seats upright, you’ll get up to 29.6 cubic feet of space, and with the second-row seats folded, you can get up to an impressive 74.4 cubic feet of cargo space. You and your passengers will enjoy the spaciousness of the Forester, with 110.8 cubic feet of overall passenger volume.

Toyota RAV4

The 2024 RAV4 also has impressive cargo space dimensions. Keep both seats upright, and you’ll get about 35.7 cubic feet of storage space and up to 69.8 cubic feet with the second-row seats folded. While the Toyota has ample cargo space, it also has an overall passenger volume of 98.9 cubic feet, sufficient for everyone to ride comfortably.

Choose Your Adventure: Test-Drive the Forester and RAV4 at Hiley Subaru of Fort Worth

As you can see, both the 2024 Subaru Forester and the 2024 Toyota RAV4 are extremely capable compact SUVs with roomy interiors and innovative technologies. We invite you to stop by Hiley Subaru of Fort Worth to take both of these mighty compact SUVs for a test drive. Feel free to contact us to learn more about the various features of our new inventory, how our financing works, and our service specials. We look forward to helping you get behind the wheel of your favorite compact crossover SUV.