Toyota Venza Hybrid

toyota venza hybrid: The yin to the Honda Crosstour's yang, Toyota's Venza enters 2013 with gently revised exterior styling, a number of new basic convenience features, and a touch of updated option plans.


toyota venza hybrid


On the Outside

Up front, the Venza's grille is a bolder, cleaner analysis of its initial chrome plan. The lower inlet professions egg-crate mesh for a more conventional crosshatch pattern as well as is now ringed in chrome. The haze lamps continue to be set into the lower fascia, today include changed chrome surrounds.

3 brand-new colors-- Mindset Black, Cypress Pearl, and also Planetary Gray Mica-- join the Venza's choices for 2013, with a collection of fresh designed 19-inch wheels completing the outside updates. The V-6 equipped version includes 20-inch, five-spoke alloys as requirement.

Technology

The big news in Venza technology for 2013 is the arrival of the Entune multimedia system. Focused on incorporating smart phones and the cars and truck's navigating, home entertainment, and also information services, Entune supports a host of mobile apps, consisting of Bing, movietickets.com, Pandora, and iHeartRadio.

Made to Order

Toyota declares the purchasing process has been streamlined and also value increased for 2013 with the enhancement of countless conventional functions to all three trim degrees: LE, XLE, and Limited. The Venza LE consists of a blind-spot mirror as well as external mirror turn-signals with puddle lamps. A dual-zone automatic climate control system with second-row-seat vents, a 3.5-inch LCD multi-information screen, a 6.1-inch touch-screen infotainment user interface, an auxiliary audio jack, a USB port, a six-speaker stereo, and Bluetooth connection complete the LE's attributes.

The XLE adds nav as well as Entune, leather-trimmed as well as heated front seats, pushbutton beginning, a power liftgate, a backup camera, as well as an anti-theft system. The Restricted increases the size of the 6.1-inch infomercial display screen to a complete seven inches as well as adds an upgraded nav system, a scenic glass roof, as well as CONCEALED headlamps.

LE as well as XLE designs are readily available with either of both engine options: a 181-hp, 2.7 litre four-cylinder or a 268-hp, 3.5-liter V-6 with either front- or four-wheel drive. The Limited is powered only by the V-6 engine in either front- or all-wheel-drive setups.

Calling the 2013 Venza "new" would certainly be a stretch, and also Toyota agrees: It describes the modifications as "significant updates," a statement with which we can consent in good conscience.

Toyota Venza Generations Explained

Major redesigns occur every five years approximately; not much modifications in between. Splitting them into generations supplies more purposeful differences in the purchasing procedure.