 Okay I drive a Subaru WRX, my wife a Crosstrek, my son a Outback and in the base a Legacy.  So from that POV on a recent trip I rented a Toyota RAV4 for an two week hiking trip in the Northwest to Mt Hood, Mt Rainer and Mt Olympia; I would be traveling on a number of dirt back roads and wanted an SUV.  Lets start with the positive.  The vehicle was new... it had less the 5 k miles and still had the new car smell.  The storage was more than adequate for our back country gear.  The AC was good and the controls were generally intuitive except for the A/B Odometer control.  Now for what I did not like.  Even though this is an AWD vehicle it drives like a FWD vehicle; the torque steer is quite noticeable on acceleration.  The handling is very vague not crips like I'm use to with the Subaru's I've driven; cornering at speed can be disconcerting.  Braking is fine.  Many speak of the advantage of the height of an SUV but I found the nose of the RAV4 hiding what was directly in front of me.  Now the rear view camera was a disappointment; the guidelines superimposed on the image were off and placed my too close to surrounding vehicles.  As for the transmission, I found myself having to manually set the gear on back roads because it was constantly switching between gears or lacked need power to get up the steep inclines.  So in a nut shell I really wish I had rented a Subaru Outback because the handling, and power delivery are superior.