Yay!!!
I'm glad you got your Venue! And I'm glad you love it! I've been following your posts over the last few months and I kept thinking, "Dear God, get this guy his Venue already, he's waited long enough!"
Happy driving!!! And Congratulations!!
It looks like every country lets Hyundai know what they want to see on their vehicles they get, and of course each country will have mandated things for safety...here in Canada Hyundai will have the heated seats, heated steering wheel and heated outside mirrors because those 3 things are what the majority Canadians want, and AWD is another option that will be standard on many models that can only be gotten in Canada, where as many other countries don't require some of these options...as well Hyundai Canada must also have a say in design things like the grill on my Ultimate, which I think makes the front end standout and I like the side lights on the mirrors...look at India's Venues and the different things like engine and transmission option.We don't get heating options on our top-of-the range version here in Aust. We do get the 2 tone in either blue or white, but there are still a lot of buttons that are not in use.
funny this is the first car I've had with a heated steering wheel and at one point the steering wheel was starting to get really warm and I looked down at the control button and I realized when I used the emergency brake I turned it on by mistake because the end of the brake handle is close to the button and being new to everything on the car I must have pushed the button with part of my hand while trying out the brake 😁...it's going to be nice when the winter season starts again.I need that heated steering wheel in my life!
Congrats on the delivery my man.
my Ultimate was $25299.00 Canadian without the freight and taxes etc. added on, and the Canadian buck is worth about 78 cents to the US buck...I think we are getting a good deal for the money...I'm very satisfied with the power and the ride quality and all the features and with all the bad things said and written about the CVT/IVT I can't find any fault with it, and I don't expect it to be race car quality and performance oriented, it does what it was designed to do and with the price of gas the transmission is another plus.So that's the top of the line, Canadian style. We NorteAmericanos obsess about the differences available to us. I enjoy your criticism of conventional reviewers; they just don't get it. However good your first impressions are, they will only get better.
I've owned 20 cars over the last 60 years and my 2022 SEL is the best designed of all of them. Even my spouse, notoriously critical of my petrolhead choices, grabs the keys and just goes, leaving me the perfectly fine 2018 Tucson, because it's not as much fun.
Some cars, eg the '67 Beetle, the pre 68 Valiant slant six, are classics. I suspect the first generation Venues will achieve that status.
That's one of the reasons I insist on always buying a car with a manual transmission: I don't want my wife to be able to drive it!........Even my spouse, notoriously critical of my petrolhead choices, grabs the keys and just goes, leaving me the perfectly fine 2018 Tucson, because it's not as much fun........
I’m in the same boat as this guy. Took delivery March ‘21. Two oil changes, zero issues.🙂Since we took delivery on April 15, 2021, our Venue has been a perfect working car. The only two trips back to the dealership were for oil changes.