Your mechanic sounds like a good one...I’d take his advice.
I don’t know if you can make it happen, but the soldiers should have a ‘for sale by owner’ lot on post where you might be able to find a RAV4. Maybe some of your vet friends could help out with that...?
100?
I have a couple people I can ask. Sounds like an idea.
These folks have taken care of my car for a lot of years. He said he’d tell me when it was time. The last two big repairs required antique parts out of Virginia.