of a Toyota Engineer!? Okay, I know this sounds weird but, my car was recently totaled & I bought an older Rav4 to keep until I find a newer car. I'm in love w/ the Rav4 but realized that 5-speed Manual Transmission isn't available any longer in '07-'08 models. I would like to contact someone other than Toyota Customer Care about allowing a 5-speed Manual - AWD - not the base model, but all three or four models with these options in their future models. It may be a dead end, but at least I can try!

If you have this information, I would really appreciate the help. Thank you!
=) I have already emailed Toyota Customer Care - I was hoping to get my idea's to an actual decision-making person. Thank you for the idea though!