Built around how I use it: Nantucket daily driving, beach access, ferry trips, Cape to Vermont highway runs, snowstorms, dirt roads, class 4, and having a self-contained place to sleep whenever I leave the island.

Current setup:

•235/65R17 Falken Wildpeak A/T Trails

•black steelies (I like the utilitarian look and functionality)

•LP Aventure front bumper

•LP Aventure engine skid plate

•Cyber Series 3" cube fog lights on the bumper

•Hele Outdoors sleeping platform

•Luno air + foam mattress

•Luno pillow

•Luno rear window bug screens

• faux carbon fiber cargo privacy cover (it was for the texture over faux leather)

•WeatherTech sunshades

•WeatherTech wind deflectors

•EKR neoprene seat covers

•EcoFlow River 2 power station

•torque wrench / metric hand tools / basic kit always in the car

I intentionally kept it simple:

•no lift (with the tires it has 8.9 inches of clearance at the lowest point, the skid plate, and it’s architecture lends poorly to a lift imo)

•no rooftop tent (would limit ferry access slightly, and I’ve already done a 6 month road trip in one on a different vehicle and after that I don’t want to ever build a rig with one again)

•no huge roof rack (again ferry access, hurts mpg, and how discreet the car is on the highway, goes against lessons I learned on my road trip)

•no trying to turn it into a rock crawler

It preforms extremely well for my use cases and the terrain I take it on. It’s surprising how well the mechanical awd from this generation of RAV4’s does on sand and snow, especially thanks to how light it is.

The goal was just to make a compact AWD crossover into a comfortable, capable, self-contained travel rig that still drives well every day.