Brand new vehicle of 2020 Toyota Luxurious RAV4. toyota.com

The RAV4’s first generation, especially as a three-door, was pioneering and not unfunky. Then things went downhill. The outgoing fourth-gen car, which sold mostly as a hybrid, was a visual assault and a dynamic misery.

Yet that RAV4 generation has been the world’s best-selling SUV, and its fourth best-selling car of all. So imagine how much better place the world will be if the new one is actually a nice vehicle.

The new RAV4 has better proportions than it used to: longer in the wheelbase but shorter overall. That means not only that it looks less ungainly, but also that it still lines up against the big-middle-sized family crossovers. Think the inevitable Qashqai, and Honda CR-V, VW Tiguan, Ford Kuga and Peugeot 3008.