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it's a 2010 toyota venza and i know they stopped making them and a lot of people
said oh they must be bad vehicles that's where they stopped making them well for
years i told people go ahead and buy one they're great cars
it was just kind of a marketing failure with toyota they made them from
2009 to 2015 here in the united states then they stopped selling them here so
people thought oh there must have been a mistake but
maybe toyota listened to me because now they're selling them again
as a 2021 toyota venza i'm assuming that people that bought them complained to
toyota and said we love these cars please start baking and selling it to us
again the only thing was they were kind of high priced in their
market and toyota gave up with them but now
they're selling them again so that tells you something toyota learns from
mistakes maybe they shouldn't have stopped making
them in the first place but they're making them again
not from a broad overview you can see it's a decent looking
midsize suv now yes the headlights are all faded but he bought new ones that
i'm going to be putting on good looking car
mid-size suv got dual exhaust and as you can see in the trunk
got the auto trunk got a lot of space there's the headlights i'm going to be
putting in let's go take them out now made in
taiwan doesn't that figure it's got the nice cover
slide it in you can put the seats back lots of room
now it is mid-size so it doesn't have third row seats but hey it's a mid-sized
suv and under the hood it's got a reliable
toyota v6 this baby's got 268 horsepower and it's hooked up to a
good toyota asian transmission it's a
six-speed shiftable automatic transmission and you know how many of
these scotties have seen right none i've never seen one prey and this
particular one as we go inside that's how many miles it's got on it
it's got a hundred and eleven thousand four hundred and eleven miles and for a
toyota that's barely broken in nice color interior it's a classy car
very comfortable seats as you see with the transmission
you can shift it yourself you can go up down
do whatever you want and it's all reading here
you want to have some fun toying around with the six gears go right ahead or you
want to make it simple let's put it in drive and it's on t and
it does all the work itself the typical toyota product
air conditioning is freezing cold i always like putting them on max cold
myself well a pointed steering wheel with
various controls on it and as we get outside check out the back
seat it's got decent room as somebody's been sleeping back here
and it has the air conditioning and heat in the back here
so you're comfortable it's got big old disc brakes in the front
and in the back almost close to perfection for a mid-size
suv like i say it was more a marketing problem toyota had
2021 they brought them back now they're bringing back slightly different
they're hybrids all-wheel drive is going to be standard
as you can see in the back of this one it's just front-wheel drive there's no
axle in the back it's solid nothing's wrong with it but
it's only front-wheel drive but even so it's got decent towing capacity
it's not a truck for pulling little stuff and being front-wheel drive only
you're gonna get slightly better gas mileage
now they're not exactly misers this one was rated at 25 on a highway but my
customer he gets about 21 on the highway you got
to be realistic with these mileage ratings
a lot of them are inflated they're not actually true most of my customers with
these get around 21 miles a gallon on a
highway because this particular one weighs a little over two tons
four thousand forty five pounds it's a lot of weight
you can never get fantastic gas mileage with a lot of weight
unless you're going downhill and turn the engine off
now that's comparable to most mid-size suvs couple months ago
i road tested a brand new lexus mid-size suv drove it from houston to san antonio
and back i only averaged about 21 miles a gallon on a highway doing 70 miles an
hour the speed limit was 70 so that's what i did so it's not horrible that's
what you're going to get with a heavy vehicle what you get with this venza is
a very dependable nice riding fast enough
handles good enough and you're gonna feel safe in it we'll take it for a road
test so as we go inside it's a typical toyota
you push the button it starts right up
first thing you notice is it's exceptionally quiet
and it shifts smooth and for a mid-size suv
it's got decent handling now sure the acura's
handle a bit stiffer and are more fun to drive
but these are actually more comfortable and we'll put it down and drive and
we'll see how it takes off
you can see those wheels are spinning it runs good it shifts good it's got
good acceleration nuts got plenty of airbags everywhere
and with its size and its weight the two tons
plus 45 this thing is stable it really feels safe you do not feel like you're
in a little tin bucket in this thing it is a solid vehicle and it's got a
smooth ride over bumps it's not quite as smooth as my wife's
lexus but then again that's a sedan and this is a midsize suv but it's very
stable you feel extremely safe in one of these vehicles
now this vehicle is 10 years old but it doesn't feel like a 10 year old car
let me tell you i drive the brand new ones this thing doesn't seem all that
worn still got original struts on it too now
back in 2010 this thing was 29 000. this model with
the v6 and the front wheel drive the new ones
they start at 33 590. it's an all-wheel drive version that's what they're making
so you're paying for the all-wheel drive me i'm not such a big fan of it but
marketing wise look at subaru they've been selling
more and more cars and all of their cars except one are all wheel drive
they're going for a northern market and people will live where it rains a lot or
go out in the country so they don't get stuck
so you're not going to have any choice you're going to get a little bit worse
gas mileage just to bring a new one and not be able to get the v6 engine but
since the new one's a hybrid it's got a four cylinder engine but it's
an electric motor so it has 219 total horsepower
now it's less than this thing but with the electric motor boost and since
it's the electric rear wheel drive puts out more torque
than this one does because it's got the four-cylinder engine driving the front
wheels but then it has electric motors that
have a ton of torque realize electric motors put
out a lot more torque to gasoline motors so it actually has
more torque than this thing has even though it's got a four-cylinder
engine because those electric motors put a lot of boost in
and with that hybrid system they claim that
they're gonna average 39 miles a gallon gas mileage this thing gets 21 on a
highway that's the best it can get i'm sure
it'll be a little bit different than 39 from my experience i haven't road tested
one yet i can't wait to get one at road test and i can tell you the truth but
they really get gas mileage but it's going to be a lot
better than the 21 that this thing gets but of course you got to realize the
downside the new one's hybrid as it gets really
old those hybrid systems cost a fortune to repair
it's got a plain old six-cylinder toyota engine
totally reliable six-speed automatic transmission
totally reliable me i take the reliability over that high-tech
because i keep my cars 20 30 years if you're the type of person who doesn't
you might not even care but if you're buying a used vehicle
years from now i tell people to shy away from high
mileage hybrids it can cost too much money to repair so
now you know the truth about this 2010 toyota venza they did stop making
them but now they're making them again solid built vehicle you can find a used
one get a good price make your day you get a
fantastic used car that might go and go and go i got a customer with one
of these got three hundred thousand miles
this one's only got a hundred and eleven thousand it's barely broken in they're a
nice looking midsize suv especially used you can really get
your monies worth and here's some bonus questions and
answers mango's vision says scotty what do you
think is the most beautiful looking toyota of all time
the 1960s toyota 2000 gt they look like miniature corvettes now
only 63 of them ever made them to the united
states so they're like hence teeth they go from anywhere from 500 grand to
1.3 million when they've been auctioned off
they had a yamaha designed engine toyota's always had a thing with yamaha
last celicas ever made had a yamaha designed engine
that ended up having problems because they didn't make the oil pump right and
they scavenged air and then blew the engines up which you
can fix with a bigger oil pan it can be fixed but these 2000 gts they
were they were nice cars and yeah you look at them
they're dated today but it's a classic look
and they are so rare if i was going to get a car i would get a rare thing like
that because then you got something that
nobody else has anybody with money can go out and buy a brand new vet or buy a
brand new bmw porsche whatever but if you get a
classic thing like that that to me is more interesting plus i
like 60s cars that's when i was growing up they were
simpler you can fiddle with them you can toy around with them you can adjust the
carburetors they're more fun to drive around than a
modded car you just turn the key in away you go
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