After a five-year absence, the Toyota Venza compact crossover will return to the Canadian market this August. It’s an all-new five-seater, roughly the equivalent of the RAV4 SUV in size, and will be sold only as a hybrid with all-wheel drive.

The Venza is built on the same platform as the RAV4, Toyota Canada’s best-selling vehicle, but it’s intended to be a little more upscale. It shares the same hybrid powertrain as the RAV4 Hybrid, too. In Japan, where it will be built, it’s already sold as the Harrier and with a conventional gasoline engine based on the Corolla powerplant, but that’s not considered powerful enough for North American tastes – the hybrid engine gives it 219 hp and a towing capacity of 1,750 lbs.




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