With a comparatively beneficiant quantity of floor clearance and a fastback-like silhouette, the Toyota Crown blurs the road between a sedan and a crossover. It channels its off-road genes right into a particular version mannequin known as the Panorama that options rally-inspired design updates.
Unveiled for the Japanese market, the Crown Panorama appears prefer it was constructed for the SEMA present. Nonetheless, verify your calendar: April Idiot's was 4 days in the past. This isn’t a joke, the wild hallucination of an aftermarket tuner changed into a single, or an idea; it’s apparently actual and is directed to the manufacturing. It sits about an inch taller than the common manufacturing Crown, and is completed in a two-tone black and City Khaki paint job. Toyota additionally added edition-specific 18-inch wheels, all-terrain tires, and painted by hand wheel arches in a colour known as Gori Gori Black.
The pink mudflaps remind us of Toyota's rally automobiles, and the Panorama comes customary with an assault. It provides a most towing capability of about 1,650 kilos, so it gained't should tow your GR Corolla to the subsequent monitor day, nevertheless it ought to be capable to tow a small camper with ease. If the 15.2-cubic-foot trunk isn't large enough, Toyota provides an optionally available, dealer-installed roof rack that motorists can mount a storage basket on.
The adjustments made contained in the Panorama are extra delicate. The cabin will get black upholstery, black trim and a “Paisaje” emblem on the passenger aspect of the dashboard. Like the usual Crown, the off-road mannequin comes customary with split-folding rear seats.
It doesn't sound like Toyota has made any mechanical adjustments to the Panorama. Primarily based on the RS trim, it's powered by a gasoline-electric hybrid drivetrain that consists of a turbocharged, 2.4-liter four-cylinder, a pair of electrical motors (one per axle) and a nickel-metal hybrid battery pack . That is essentially the most highly effective drivetrain within the Crown vary, and it turns all 4 wheels through a six-speed automated transmission.
The value of the Crown Panorama begins at 6,850,000 Japanese yen, which represents about $45,300 on the present change fee. For context, the common Crown RS prices 6,700,000 yen (about $44,300). What does this imply for the US market? Your guess is pretty much as good as ours. Requested if the Panorama is within the lead right here, Toyota stated Autoblog which can’t touch upon future product plans. Wait and see, then.
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