{"id":63294,"date":"2009-12-04T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2009\/12\/04\/toyota-venza-billabong-los-angeles-2009\/"},"modified":"2009-12-04T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:30:00","slug":"la-2009-toyota-and-billabong-craft-one-funky-venza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/63294","title":{"rendered":"LA 2009: Toyota and Billabong craft one funky Venza"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Billabong Toyota Venza – Click above for high-res image gallery<\/small><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

\nNo, this isn’t a leftover post from SEMA, although to be perfectly fair, it is a leftover vehicle from SEMA. While reporting on the Hot Rod Toyota Tundra<\/a> and Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer<\/a>, we somehow missed this tricked-out Venza<\/a>. Kitted out by the Australian surfwear mavens at Billabong, it’s called the Ultimate Venza Concept. Umm, yeah. While the vast majority of Venza crossovers are probably never going to be used off-road, this Ultimate Venza apparently wants us to know that any extreme sports fan will be happy in one.<\/p>\n

Toyota had Street Image do the build. They started with a 2009 Venza and added a body kit with Outback-worthy fender flares and alloy wheels. That crazy custom roof rack can accommodate surfboards, snow boards and wake boards, and can be lowered for easier loading. There’s even a hidden cargo rack that allows skis and snow boards to be mounted at the back. There are front and rear hitch receivers, a Grinch Winch to “pull wake boarders into waves or snow boarders and skaters across flat land to a jump or rail,” and a TRD big brake kit in there as well.<\/p>\n

Besides being identified by the massive graphics along the flanks, Billabong also chipped in wet suit material for the seats and an homage of sorts on the headliner which features a collage of Billabong athletes in action. The vehicle also incorporates certain “living” features like a heated shower system to help you rinse off after surfing and a Verizon Wireless access point router to keep you abreast of current surf and snow conditions. Look for it at upcoming Billabong surf events, read more about it in the press release after the jump<\/a>, and see it in our high-res gallery below.<\/p>\n

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Gallery: LA 2009: Billabong Toyota Venza<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Filed under: Aftermarket, LA Auto Show, Wagon, Crossover, Toyota, Specialty, Off-Road Billabong Toyota Venza – Click above for high-res image gallery No, this isn’t a leftover post from SEMA, although to be perfectly fair, it is a leftover vehicle from SEMA. While reporting on the Hot Rod Toyota Tundra and Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer, we somehow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}