The latter adds goodies such as rear air conditioning and captain’s seats. The Venture is a comfortable and convenient way to go, particularly when it’s as loaded as the leathery tester, which included the many-splendored LT package. Other equipment tossed in with the base price includes air conditioning, seven-passenger seating, dual sliding rear doors, tilt steering, a rear window washer/wiper/defroster, power door locks and a theft deterrent system. Its base price of $23,045 also includes a gutsy V-6, and a silky new-for-1999 electronic four-speed automatic gearbox.
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Standard safety gear includes side air bags for the driver and front-seat passenger, daytime running lights with an automatic control that turns on the regular headlights at night, seat-belt pretensioners and four-wheel antilock brakes.Īs that litany of standard safety stuff might suggest, the extended Venture is a good value. Redesigned in 1997 and blessed with some important upgrades since, the Venture is a comfortable, quiet and exceptionally safe minivan. That difference can be crucial to a couple who want to take several kids on vacation.Ĭertainly, the handsome extended-wheelbase Venture is a good choice for hauling folks and stuff. But with an extended van such as the Venture I tested, you still have a nice storage compartment back there. Since most minivan owners keep those backseats in to haul folks instead of stuff, it’s probably more meaningful to put the difference this way: When you put a third row of seats into a regular minivan, the cargo area behind the last row virtually disappears. The extended model’s extra 14 inches of length raises its interior volume (with the second and third rows of seats removed) to 155.9 cubic feet, which is a significant 29.3 cubic feet more than you get with the regular model. The extended-wheelbase Chevrolet Venture I drove recently is a case in point. The longer, extended-wheelbase version counters those assorted face cards with an ace in the hole: utility. The shorter, regular-wheelbase model is a bit cheaper, more maneuverable, easier to park and usually more carlike in the corners. Like most things in life, choosing between a regular-wheelbase and extended-wheelbase minivan is fraught with tradeoffs.
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