Toyota unveiled its RAV4 rally car at the Monster Energy Supercross Championship finale last week held at the Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas. Ryan Millen, who won the 2014 Baja 1000 in a Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, will drive the RAV4 rally vehicle at various rally races including some of the 2015 Rally America 2WD-Open Class season.
A RAV4 competing within a professional racing series is rare. It is even rarer to see the unibody-construction, small-sport utility vehicle (SSUV) go head-to-head with Rally America’s modified streetcars. Toyota’s entry into Rally America is a modified 2015 Toyota RAV4 LE. The vehicle sports a stock transmission and a stock 2.5-liter, four-cylinder, double-overhead cam engine that produces 176 hp and 172