I feel you have obviously expected the compact Rav4 to be up there with all the big boys in the proper 4wd market.

Toyota has never said it is a proper 4wd nor marketed as a large vehicle. We have had one for nearly 6 years and have had no trouble with it at all. Maybe you should do you research about your next vehicle properly before you buy it, because you have not in this case.

I agree, with the response about you thinking the vehicle is like a large SUV. Bear in mind even the big SUV's are not designed to go off road, if you want to go off road buy your self a Wrangler with suspension and tires for off road usage.

Remember using a vehicle off road almost always voids the warranty, even if it was equipped for it, just be prepared to stop at every gas station for gas because for certain it will be a gas hog.

I have 250K miles on mine, and it doesn't leak, burn, anything. It runs new. It has cost me 200 bucks in repairs in 10 years. It sounds like you had the original tires, yes you get zero traction with the original tires, but a set of off road tires really helped this.

Also the 0-60 time; yes it is slow, but to be honest at 250K miles without any real issues, I can deal with slow. In that time it has never left me stranded anywhere, in any weather, at any time.

This is obviously an old review and it is also completely bogus. No one would have bought car that they had this many complaints about. Just about every complaint would have been witnessed on a test drive.