I hope that Venture is scrap now and whoever bought it moved on to a better vehicle. How the Venture met safety standards in 2005, I don’t know. This Venture design came out in 1996 as a 1997 model. IIHS crash tested it right when it came out, and it did horrendously. Of the 9 minivans they tested (all the mainstream minivans on the market at the time), the Venture was by far the worst one. And keep in mind the Venture was a brand new design, and some of the other vans had designs as old as the late 1980s and were on their way out. And guess what GM did? NOTHING! Not only did they bring this heap to market, they sat on their butt and did NOTHING to fix the Venture’s deficient structural design. Meanwhile the competition kept moving forward on safety. So that’s why the 2005 Venture is my least favorite vehicle of all time… because GM knew it was a death trap, and they’d continued to build it for 8-9 years. And no, I don’t hate GM. It is a huge company with many parts and they can (and have) built many safe vehicles over the years. Even at the time they were making this Venture stuff like the Chevy Lumina and Buick Park Avenue (to name a couple) were AHEAD of their time on safety. But whoever made the decision not to improve the Venture after its horrendous crash test deserves to be up the metaphorical creek without a paddle. May 31, 2023 11:39 am
I have a 03 venture and never have used the rear wiper
I got a 01 Venture and it works pretty well (well without counting the times we had problems well now it works perfecly)
always wanted one of these anyways congrats to that lucky owner 😢😭
If I could time travel to 2005 just to buy one of these new, I would.
I have an 04 Venture and it just keeps on going, with very few problems.
Excelente tu camioneta
I hope that Venture is scrap now and whoever bought it moved on to a better vehicle. How the Venture met safety standards in 2005, I don’t know. This Venture design came out in 1996 as a 1997 model. IIHS crash tested it right when it came out, and it did horrendously. Of the 9 minivans they tested (all the mainstream minivans on the market at the time), the Venture was by far the worst one. And keep in mind the Venture was a brand new design, and some of the other vans had designs as old as the late 1980s and were on their way out.
And guess what GM did? NOTHING! Not only did they bring this heap to market, they sat on their butt and did NOTHING to fix the Venture’s deficient structural design. Meanwhile the competition kept moving forward on safety. So that’s why the 2005 Venture is my least favorite vehicle of all time… because GM knew it was a death trap, and they’d continued to build it for 8-9 years.
And no, I don’t hate GM. It is a huge company with many parts and they can (and have) built many safe vehicles over the years. Even at the time they were making this Venture stuff like the Chevy Lumina and Buick Park Avenue (to name a couple) were AHEAD of their time on safety. But whoever made the decision not to improve the Venture after its horrendous crash test deserves to be up the metaphorical creek without a paddle.
May 31, 2023 11:39 am