Crown Expansion
The Mirai will soon no longer be the only Toyota with a fuel cell on board. Toyota is coming up with a set of new variants of the Crown and there is also a variant that knows what to do with hydrogen.
In the Netherlands, Toyota has not been supplying Crown for several decades, but in its home country Japan it has never been gone. The Crown is now something completely different than until recently. The fifteenth and final regular Crown was replaced by a completely new model last year. That was not a traditional sedan, but a four-door placed high on the legs with a steeply sloping roofline and a significantly more playful design than its immediate predecessor. The new Crown only exists in that form for the time being, but Toyota is making Crown a model family with various body styles, one of which will have a fuel cell.
From left to right: Crown Crossover, Crown Sport, Crown Sedan and Crown Estate.
The Toyota Crown Crossover that Toyota already sells in Japan, China and the United States will be joined by three new Crown models through 2024. Toyota will launch the Crown Sport and Crown Sedan in 2023. The first is a 4.71 meter long and 1.56 meter high SUV-like. The Crown Sedan will be a 5.03 meter long and 1.47 meter low sedan. The Crown Sport – the SUV-like – appears with hybrid and plug-in hybrid powertrains. The Crown Sedan is also available as a hybrid, but a plug-in hybrid variant passes the nose of that four-door. Instead, there will be a fuel cell electric powertrain in the front of the Sedan. Technical specifications of this will keep the Japanese under wraps for a while.
It doesn’t stop with the Crown Crossover, Crown Sport and Crown Sedan. In 2024, the Estate will join the Crown ranks. That 4.93 meter long raised station wagon, just like the Crown Sport, comes with a regular hybrid powertrain and with plug-in hybrid hardware on the international car market. The Dutch is not among them for the time being.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl