Toyota Crown high-performance SUV exposure, plug-in hybrid + red caliper, configuration comprehensively surpassed the Audi Q5
Previously, Toyota released a new generation of crowns and crossover versions of the crown, bringing a lot of new ideas to the car market, especially the new 2.4T hybrid, which also represents Toyota's radicalization in terms of power, and this change also means that Toyota will pay more attention to high performance. Sure enough, in the performance of this piece, Toyota is still unsatisfied with the crossover version of the crown, this time exposed a new model called crown CROSSOVER RS, see RS is self-evidently a high-performance version, in the release of performance compared to the crossover version of the crown CROSSOVER RS is more aggressive.
Seeing this, many car owners wonder, is Toyota still more powerful than the 2.5T hybrid? In fact, in addition to the 3.5T on the Land Cruiser, the overseas version of Highlander has long used a set of 2.5T plug-in hybrid system, plug-in hybrid in terms of fuel consumption and performance are better than oil-electric hybrid, the short board is some troublesome charging. In addition to the powerful power, the Crown CROSSOVER RS is equipped with 6AT transmission, matching the E-Four four-wheel drive system, with a peak output of 345 horses, and surpassing the Audi Q5 and BMW X3 models in terms of power configuration.
It can be seen that Toyota seems to be interested in building the crown into another high-end brand outside of Lexus, and the current crown camp has cars, SUVs and MPVs. These digressions are not mentioned for the time being, and then look at the new car design, similar to the previous cross-border version of the crown, using a double-in-the-middle network processing scheme and a C-shaped linear light group, the vision is quite sharp, the cross-border shape plus the blackening kit is very moving, the black wheels and red calipers form a contrast, and the tail adopts the undulating hierarchical treatment and hidden exhaust system.
In the appearance to maintain a strong recognition, as for the interior of the new car is expected to be consistent with the crossover version, the use of integrated suspension screen design. In terms of size, the car knows that the crossover version of the crown is much smaller, the length, width and height are only 4710× 1880×1560mm, the wheelbase is 2700mm, positioning a medium-sized SUV, as a high-performance model interior is expected to use racing seats, RS exclusive logo and other sporty layouts.
The author also got the news from the front that the car will be released around the end of the year and officially mass-produced next year. The price of the car in Japan is 6,050,000 yen, equivalent to about 310,000 yuan, and it is much more expensive to introduce as an import. As a model competing with X3 and Q5, in terms of product strength, Crown CROSSOVER RS has no use in questioning, but the brand power is still far behind, and it is still in the stage of brand power shaping.