New Toyota Venza (USDM) to debut at Detroit 2008

Toyota Mark X ZiO
Toyota Mark X ZiO

Toyota will be launching a new US model at the 2008 Detroit Motor Show in January next year called the Toyota Venza. Toyota has kept us in the dark about what model this is, without even a concept sketch but they say it’s a “crossover sedan” which will be a “unique blend of sedan and sport utility vehicle, offering seating for five, easy ingress and egress, a car-like ride and functional utility.” The Toyota Venza was esigned and engineered in the United States and will be assembled at Toyota’s plant in Kentucky.

This so-called crossover sedan will most probably be a restyled version of the Toyota Mark X ZiO (shown above) with unique SUV-like styling more suited to the American market tastes. Design inspiration will likely be drawn from the Toyota FT-SX concept – of which photos are available after the jump.

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 5:51 am

    Nice concept, but will never look like that. It has 4 seats…

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  • BigFish (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 7:26 am

    Small car segment! Just like shorten Wish.

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  • frossonice (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 12:23 pm

    Ford’s grille and headlights! Mazda’s front wheel arch! Bentley’s rear wheel arch! Fast! Somebody scream copycat! Anybody…

    Nah.. It’s Toyota. Original design even if it is so damn obvious…

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  • kei9 (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    cool car but, the design is kida too common now.. =/

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  • mitlanevo (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 2:28 pm

    love the seats…..thats all…..

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  • bavarian (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 7:08 pm

    not bad but a little weird

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  • freeze (Member) on Dec 21, 2007 at 11:27 pm

    The engine will overheat because of that grille man….
    The seats look uncomfortable and impractical. So one thing for sure is that this can’t be what it will look like.

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  • auctioncenter2u (Member) on Dec 22, 2007 at 8:56 am

    Just another SHOW CAR from TOyota

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  • hyundai (Member) on Dec 22, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Another bad car…

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  • szw (Member) on Dec 23, 2007 at 7:19 pm

    venza the bigger avanza .
    lolz !!!

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  • wildthingz (Member) on Dec 24, 2007 at 1:25 pm

    the designer have no more idea lol now proton designer is better wakakakaka

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  • in_put (Member) on Dec 26, 2007 at 11:05 am

    Mark X must have been penned with the R-Class in mind…

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  • Rear seats are good. but front seats specially driver seat’s design is not good to drive…..

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