This Venture should earn its place on minivan buyer shopping lists because it offers a willing engine and a car-like ride. Seating seven or eight comfortably, it's ready to haul a bunch of folks or a load of hardware from the home-improvement center. , , Our Venture comes with a surprisingly high level of standard equipment, including air conditioning, side-impact air bags, anti-lock brakes, dual sliding doors, and a tilt steering column. It rides on the shorter 112-inch wheelbase. There's plenty of head room and elbow room no matter which seat you're in. A height-adjustment lever on the driver's seat lets you change driving positions without getting too close or too far from the steering wheel. The fore and aft range of the driver's seat is long enough for drivers over six-and-a-half feet tall. It comes with bench seats in the second and third rows. The seatbacks are split and fold separately; that's handy for carrying two-by-fours and a couple of rear-seat passengers at the same time. It's powered by a 185-horsepower 3.4-liter overhead-valve V6 engine and drives the front wheels through a four-speed automatic transmission. , , Only you can judge whether the Venture is the best minivan for your particular needs-but we think any minivan shopper ought to give it some consideration. This is one nice Chevy van! Thanks for looking! Print this page out and call us NOW for your personalized test drive towards ownership.