As a native of Guangzhou, even if he did not see how beautiful the Toyota Crown taxi was parked in front of the China Hotel, he also learned from the elders that he could afford to take a Crown taxi at that time. In order to experience the Toyota Crown Taxi of that year, car brother also experienced several times in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Crown Taxi model is Crown Comfort, Toyota specially built for the rental industry model, in the appearance of the S133 is more similar.
Brother CAR learned that most of the old Crown taxis in Hong Kong have relatively low emissions, and a business rental license has cost a lot of money to get it. There was once a "red" driver who commented on Crown Taxi: this car has been driving for 12 years, has been driving like this, almost no maintenance, and the high mileage in the fleet has driven three or four million kilometers.
Because the high-end feeling created by the crown in South China at that time was relatively deeply rooted, it had the strength to benchmark with the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class from the 1990s to the beginning of the new century. Later, due to the iterative upgrade of opponents, whether it is the increase in size, the upgrade of the interior atmosphere or the addition of turbocharged engines, the crown is thrown away.
Although the crown has been equipped with a turbocharged engine in the sixth generation of the model, the later domestic sales version is basically 2.5L/3.0L V6 self-priming, rarely has a 4.3L V8 version, to know that the latter in 2010 nearly 900,000 prices, either home mine or low-key big guy.
Even BMW 3 Series, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Audi A4L and other descendants have already surpassed the Crown, it is also insisting on V6 self-absorption + Aisin 6AT, and only gave up the V6 sentiment when the 14th generation of Crown Life was about to come to an end, only providing a 2.0T+8AT assembly. But the opponent's advantage is established, and all you have left is to talk about feelings, but how can feelings withstand the phrase "there is no crown after 12 generations"?
On April 28, 2020, FAW Toyota officially announced that the Crown model was officially discontinued, and in the 15 years from introduction to suspension, crown has experienced 12, 13 and 14 generations of three-generation models in China, with a cumulative output of 483679 units in 15 years. Thirteen months after the discontinuation of crown cars, FAW Toyota announced that it will upgrade crowns to its high-end flagship brand, and its two models, Crown Land Release and Crown Weierfa, have also been launched for half a year.
Recently, the news that Toyota will once again introduce the latest generation of Crown sedans has circulated on the Internet, not to discuss its price, first ask you a sentence "Do you really buy"?
First of all, the return of the Toyota Crown sedan, unlike the century-old luxury German brand Borgward borrowing Futian to return the soul, the latest generation of crown is a 16-generation product, which belongs to the main model, not a shell product. However, the 16th generation of crowns built based on the TNGA-K architecture has no rear-drive heritage of the crown, and throughout the history of the crown car series, the seventh generation of products has switched to four-wheel independent suspension, and the tenth generation of products has canceled non-bearing body, and the two generations have undergone major structural changes.
Looking at the car itself, the 15th generation of crowns currently on sale in Japan uses products created by Toyota's TNGA-N architecture, which is still the positioning of rear drive + high-end. The new generation has changed to the same TNGA-K architecture as camry, Asian Dragon and Lexus ES, which is simply to say that the replacement product has changed from a rear drive to a front drive, and even the Internet has already had a review of "it is a luxury Asian dragon".
So the problem is, the use of import sales, the price will naturally be more expensive than the Asian dragon on sale, with reference to the 14th generation of crown 2018 25.08-37.48 million yuan of guidance price, 16th generation of crown if really through the import of sales, it is expected that its price can easily exceed 300,000, the same price to choose BMW 3 series, Mercedes-Benz C-class, Audi A4L is not fragrant?
Besides, the Toyota Crown is basically more popular in South China, lexus is also the same, almost the same group of people, but who will give up the Lexus ES to buy the Toyota Crown? Is it really just for that crown mark?
Whether it is the 15th generation or the 16th generation that is about to appear in the Chinese market, it can be seen that Toyota Crown has a young and flying heart, the appearance has changed the dignified atmosphere of the past, abandoning calmness, and integrating into the TNGA-K architecture camp, and the angular front face is slightly shadowed by the bZ4X pure electric SUV.
The four-door sneak coupe style fashion sense is full, but the positioning of the crown car is not a medium and large administrative car, how to become a benchmark Audi A5, Mercedes-Benz C-class Coupe, before the painstaking operation of the executive car image is not swept away?
There are no interior pictures out yet, so it is unknown what is going on inside. In terms of power, it is expected that in addition to the conventional 2.5-liter naturally aspirated and 2.5-liter dual-engine power of the TNGA-K architecture camp sedan, the new car will also provide a 2.4T turbocharged engine with a maximum power of 205 kW and a peak torque of 430 N·m, matching the 8-speed manual transmission. As for the specifics, there is no more detailed news for the time being, according to the previous Toyota release information, the 16th generation crown will be unveiled in May this year, when the truth will be revealed inside and outside.
For the 16th generation of crown models, there is also a saying that like Fenglanda, Corolla Ruifang, Weisa and Lingfang, it is introduced into the domestic production by the north and south Toyotas. This statement is not credible, because Crown is already a high-end brand of FAW Toyota, so it is not realistic for GAC Toyota to introduce domestic production.
From the guidance price of FAW Toyota Asia Dragon of 19.98-28.98 million yuan, combined with the guidance price of Lexus ES of 29.49-48.89 million yuan, the 16th generation crown domestic post-guidance price will have a large overlap with the Asian Dragon and Lexus ES, and there will be an inner volume from the inside of Toyota. Although there is competition to make progress, this kind of internal friction is not necessarily conducive to development.
epilogue:
From 1964, the second generation of crowns was introduced into the Chinese market in small batches, and in the past half century, the crown has experienced brilliance, silence and darkness, but fans who like crowns will always take good care of their beloved 133, 155, etc., sit on velvet seats with white lace seat covers, and then put in a box of audio tapes.
Today, the 16th generation of crown will use Toyota's most advanced architecture, equipped with the best quality hardware resources, and the quality of Lexus to build out, not to mention to continue to benchmark the BBA, at least with cadillac, Lincoln, Volvo these European and American luxury brands, can be more than to have the qualification to benchmark the BBA.