CarCast+Edmunds - New Toyota RAV4 is significantly improved but is it enough to beat the top competitors?

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Comedy, National, Lifestyle, Business, Sales, Automotive, Leisure

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Edmunds puts the new Toyota RAV4 up against the Honda CR-V and Kia Sportage. Alistair hits the U-Drags track with a supercharged Mustang Dark Horse against the Corvette C8 Stingray. Presented by DrinkBravago.com

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Carcast, Edmunds podcast.
0:09.2	Where's an Edmunds podcast?
0:11.1	I'm not sure the exact order we've been saying it then.
0:13.2	Maybe it's Edmonds Carcast podcast.
0:16.2	I'm Matt the Motorator DeAndre here with Alastra Weaver and Brian Wong.
0:20.0	Welcome back to the show.
0:21.8	How are you guys doing?
0:24.6	I'm good. I'm recovering. It was a big week for us. So we got a lot of throughput with the
0:31.5	Rav4. Yeah. Because it's big news when the best sellingselling car on the world gets a pretty significant update.
0:39.0	New Toyota Ravre 4, we need to get in that.
0:40.8	All hands on deck for that one.
0:42.6	We left off last week where Alistair you were talking about,
0:48.1	wrapping up all of the filming on the new season, I guess we're calling it,
0:52.1	the new season of U-Drags, the Edmonds U-Drags.
0:55.2	And Brian, you weren't here last week, but we got into the supercharged dark horse and the
1:03.1	dino numbers and what does that mean?
1:05.3	And I had some experience with my Mustang Mach 1 out here in California, a 91 octane, basically almost matching those numbers.
1:15.2	But to see what the Dark Horse did, how it performed,
1:18.9	I had went and saw the Dark Horse versus Corvette video
1:22.5	from a while back where the Corvette smoked the Dark Horse, right?
1:27.0	But now it looks like the tables have turned a
1:30.7	little bit. Yeah, this went live. Yeah, this is now live on the YouTube channel. The 10 series,
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