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The answer, unfortunately, isn’t all that straightforward.

What’s important is whether this RAV4 plug-in hybrid can justify those figures, and whether it’s objectively a better car than a Ford Kuga or Peugeot 3008 – or even a Volvo XC60. After all, most people will stick down a modest deposit, pay the fixed monthly PCP payment, and hand it back after three years. But obviously there’s more to a car than how much it costs to buy. The catch? Prices start from around £46,500. Charge it regularly and Toyota says it’ll do 282mpg fuel economy It’ll do 46 miles on electricity at speeds of up to 84mph and emits just 22g/km of CO2 – putting it in one of the very lowest company-car tax bands.

It’s got 302bhp and a 0-62mph time of just six seconds. This is a family SUV with a 2.5-litre petrol engine and an 18.1kWh battery. The numbers – from price, through to power and performance – aren’t exactly what you'd expect from a Toyota. To widen its appeal and prepare for a zero-emission future, Toyota has now launched the very first RAV4 Plug-In Hybrid. Since then, Toyota has sold almost 230,000 examples – with the latest, fifth-generation version on sale since 2019. And because this car is hybrid only, it is also automatic only - or rather, a CVT only.The Toyota RAV4 opened the world’s eyes to the idea of a compact and urban-friendly SUV way back in 1994 – long before the Nissan Qashqai or Volkswagen Tiguan arrived in the UK. In reality it’s a 2.5-litre four-cylinder Atkinson-cycle petrol engine paired up with an electric motor, offering 215bhp in front-wheel-drive RAV4s or 219bhp in 4x4 versions. Specifically, it’s called a ‘ self-charging hybrid’, which is marketing-speak for an electrified vehicle that you can’t plug into a wall socket. This individuality doesn’t stop at the styling either, because in the UK at least, the RAV4 is being offered predominantly as a hybrid only. But that’s the point this is a car that will excite some and repel others, and that, for Toyota, is better than to provoke no reaction at all. So for this fifth generation of the RAV4, Toyota has ripped up its rulebook on conservative styling and come up with a sharp-edged, square-wheelarched creation that should hold its own against the likes of the Hyundai Tucson or the Volkswagen Tiguan.