2026 Toyota RAV4 Just Launched With A Suzuki Badge In Germany

If you’re wondering why Toyota’s crack legal team hasn’t started filing an enormous amount of paperwork, the Across is actually the latest in a reasonably long line of rebadged Toyotas being sold as Suzukis in Europe, as part of an official collaboration between the two automakers. The Toyota Noah minivan, for example, was rebadged as the Suzuki Landy in Japan. Toyota’s Innova HyCross MPV was marketed as the Suzuki Invicto in India, and versions of the Corolla Touring have been called the Suzuki Swace since 2020.

Let’s also not forget that Toyota’s GR86 and Subaru’s BRZ have basically been the exact same car across two generations as part of an official partnership. And nobody can forget the Toyota Supra being a reskinned BMW Z4. So Toyota branching out with its partners for similar-yet-different cars is nothing new.

In particularly good news for Suzuki, the Across features the same 2.5-liter four-cylinder, mated with the same two electric motors and a 22.7-kilowatt-hour battery as the RAV4. Power is a respectable 304 horsepower, ironically two more hp more than the US-spec RAV4 PHEV. This, plus an unchanged 167-pound feet of torque, are still sent to all four wheels via a Toyota-developed E-CVT transmission, and are enough for a 112-mph top speed and zero to 62 mph in a brisk 6.1 seconds. Just three-tenths slower than the European-spec Toyota.

Why This Design Looks So Familiar

The Suzuki’s cabin design – or “island architecture,” as the marque refers to it – is pretty much identical to that of the RAV4, save the emblem on the steering wheel. European customers therefore get the same 12.3-inch instrument cluster, 12.9-inch center console display, and, for the first time, a heads-up display.

Where previously Suzuki’s draftsmen had taken some creative license to the exterior of the first-gen Across (a rebadged 2018 RAV4) with the lightest of brushstrokes, little of that has been done this time around. Indeed, save for the new badge and what appears to be a slightly more robust front bumper, the Across design is pretty much identical on the outside too.Quite honestly, for Suzuki, a brand that has struggled to woo European customers away from the more established likes of Toyota, Honda, Nissan, and pretty much every mainstream European automaker, marketing a recognizable alternative to one of the world's best-selling plug-in hybrid crossovers is no bad thing at all.

Those of you in the US champing at the bit for your own Suzuki Across, sadly, are out of luck. The ‘new’ crossover will only be available in Europe, with prices expected to start around €60,000 (just over $72,400 USD). But perhaps US buyers really aren't out of luck, since the same RAV4 is available and at a lower price to boot.