With a generous amount of floor clearance and a fastback-like silhouette, the Toyota Crown blurs the difference between a sedan and a crossover It channels its off-roading genes into a special edition model called the Landscape that features rally-inspired design updates.
Revealed for the Japanese market, the Crown Landscape looks like it was built for the SEMA show. Check your calendar, though: it was four days before April Fool’s Day. It’s not a joke, an aftermarket tuner’s wild hallucination once altered, or an idea; It’s obviously real and it’s going into production. It sits about an inch higher than the regular crown, and is finished in two-tone black and Urban Khaki paintwork. Toyota added edition-exclusive 18-inch wheels, all-terrain tires and handcrafted flare wheels in Gory Gory Black.
The red mud stripes remind us of Toyota rally cars, and the Landscape comes standard with a hitch. It offers a maximum towing capacity of about 1,650 pounds, so it’s not going to tow your GR Corolla to the track the next day but it should be able to tow a small camper with ease. If the 15.2-cubic-foot trunk isn’t big enough, Toyota offers a dealer-optional storage roof over which drivers can load a cargo basket.
The landscape changes are more subtle. The cabin gets black upholstery, black trim and a “Landscape” logo on the passenger’s side of the dashboard. Like the standard Crown, the off-roading model comes standard with split-folding rear seats.
It doesn’t sound like Toyota has made technical changes to the landscape. Based on the RS trim, it is powered by a fuel-electric hybrid drivetrain that includes a turbocharged, 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine, two electric motors (one in each axle), nickel-metal hybrid battery -Packed with a drivetrain that the most powerful in the Crown range, and is It spins the four wheels with all four wheels all via automatic with six-speed transmission.
Crown Landscape pricing starts at 6,850,000 Japanese yen, which represents about $45,300 at current exchange rates. For reference, the standard Crown RS costs 6,700,000 yen (about $44,300). What does this mean for the American market? Your reasoning is as good as ours. Asked if Landscape is moving here, Toyota told Autoblog that it couldn’t comment on future product plans.
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