I was just wondering if Toyota were to import Toyota Crown as a Lexus who will it compete with?My guess is it'll go against Acura TL and BMW 5 series etc.
What do you guys think?

 

sorry if i'm in the dark, but whats a Toyota Crown? (i don't get much outside info, i live in school)

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I'm with you here Yuppie, and I've been out of school for a while. I'm not sure what it is either......



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They are the equivalent of Ford CrownVics here. People use them as Taxis in Japan / Hong Kong!!

Of course the taxis are stripped version of the Crown. As far as I know, it's Toyota's land yacht...

 

back in the late 70's and early 80's, I believe toyota imported a Toyota Cresada, way before you guys time and it was the top of the line Toyota 4 door sedan. It didn't sell well in the USA !

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Yep Fab is right.. Toyota used ta have the Cressida .. Iguess before the Lexus line eventually came and now they have their US whale called the Avalon... looks like we had Cressidas until 1992 here in the US (according to MSNcarpoint)

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I guess I telling my age :>)

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Yeah, good old days when the Cressida was sized like a current Camry, a Camry was sized like a currentCorolla. Same with Honda, where the Accord was sized like a current Civic, and the Civic (CVCC!) was sized like a Geo Metro!!

I think Toyota have axed the Cressida altogether. Check out the current Toyota line up in Japan...

http://www.toyota.co.jp/Showroom/frame.html

 

The Toyota Crown is a really butt ugly car. Atleast the version that I happened to see. The car was way over priced and it barely sold at all. It did have an ice box in the rear deck, which I thought was interesting. That was way back in about 1992 though.... but the exterior appearance still is very similar.

 

This one, the Toyota Crown Majesta looks kinda nice.





This one, the Toyota Crown Royal looks like a MBZ S class and a Buick put together.





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I don't think Toyota would bring that car here. It looks too much like the Lexus (model above the GS, I'm drawing a blank for some reason) from certain angles, especially in that white/tan picture. If Toyota came out with a big expensive car like that, it would not sell well. However, throw a Lexus badge on it and you've got a winner. The Lexus lineup looks pretty set, so I don't think Toyota would bother bringing this one here.



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LS400/430 series.

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Toyota Crown was toyota's flagship sedan until Lexus came out.Cressida was never the flagship.

 

If Crown comes, it might be stealing some other Toyota 4 doors' sales such as Avalon, LS430 and ES300, because the engine choices for this car is very board from 3.0 to 4.3, and it has some turbo versions if i am not mistaken. But not bad if it comes with a 3.0 twin turbo inline six, then it distinguishes itself from the other naturally aspirated 4 doors Toyota or Lexus have here.