Toyota Venza Test Drive

The creators themselves say that the Venza is a car for those who want to get the Camry comfort at once, Highlander’s cross-country ability, the versatility of the wagon and the maneuverability of the car. In the standard – for reasonable means. In the end, Venzu categorically does not come to belong to any class. In silhouette, it is not as similar to a station wagon as the Subaru Outback or Audi A6 Allroad models. The roof line of Venza is noticeably lower than that of crossovers. With all this, it’s also impossible to attribute it to minivans, and a solid two hundred and five millimeters of clearance and almost five meters of length only increase confusion.

Based on the conviction of positioning in the Russian market, Venza should close the previously empty gap between the RAV4 and Highlander models. Despite the more affordable price tag, the Venza is even longer than the Highlander, however, it has a lower clearance by a millimeter.

Externally, Venza does not really fit into Toyota’s modern corporate style called Keen Look. They say that there was some controversy about the exterior of the company, but American designers managed to insist on their own vision. In the end, the look came out calm, but not primitive, with a sufficient number of interesting voluminous details both in front and behind. By the way, unlike the Americans, we will already be “in the base” with bi-xenon headlights with a “bird” of diode running lights. But the version with the 3.5 motor will not get to us for economic reasons. Such machines at a price would play on the same field with the base Highlander, which means there would be a risk of cannibalizing sales.