The 2023 Toyota Crown shines with its new Hybrid Max driveline.
Larry Printz | Tribune News Service
More than four inches taller than the 2022 Avalon sedan it replaces, the Crown is nearly two inches shorter, with a sloping fastback design that disguises the fact that this is a sedan, not an SUV or hatchback. With its oddly shaped grille and blacked-out c-pillar, the Crown’s short-but-tall proportion is exacerbated by a two-tone paint job that visually pulls apart the Crown’s design coherence, making its unusual proportions more apparent.
There’s little in its design that indicates its top-drawer status aside from its size. This includes the interior, whose materials are average in quality, even in the Platinum trim. Perhaps designers were attempting to convey modernity and sportiness. Instead, it comes off as carefully budgeted, lacking the surprise and delight of design being done by Hyundai and Kia. Yet the new 12.3-inch infotainment touchscreen, powered by Toyota’s U.S.
Most models use Toyota’s fourth-generation hybrid system that pairs a normally aspirated 2.5-liter four-cylinder engine with electric motors through a continuously variable automatic transmission that now generates 236 horsepower. While it’s not overly fast, it is frugal, running 0-60 mph in 7.6 seconds while returning 42 mpg city, 41 mpg highway. But while the 2022 Avalon Hybrid gives up 21 horsepower to the Crown, it delivers better fuel economy: 43 mpg city, 44 mpg highway.
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