If you select the most passionate Toyota car in the Chinese market, the kitten believes that crown is at the forefront. As a star car of the Toyota brand, Crown once had good performance in the Chinese market. It was only because of changes in the market conditions that the domestic Crown sedan was suspended and delisted on April 28, 2020. In the previous 15 years, it has experienced three generations of models and produced a total of 483,679 vehicles. With the withdrawal of Crown and Lexus GS, the Chinese market also lacks the Toyota family's mid-to-high-end cars.
Although Crown has stopped being produced in China, with its full series of models released in overseas markets, this old friend who is familiar with the Chinese has returned to the Chinese market, but this time it has become a series and is no longer a model. Compared with the previous Crown Land and Crown Willfa, the new Crown SportCross, which was officially released on November 15, officially announced its return. Unlike the previous Crown sedans, Crown SportCross is an crossover , which is somewhat similar to the BMW 5 Series GTh and 6 Series GT, but it also has a crossover SUV style.
In terms of appearance design, the new crown SportCross adopts a youthful style. The front face is equipped with through-type chrome decorative strips. It connects the narrow and long headlight groups on both sides together, which has a strong overall feeling and stretches the visual width. The front surround adopts a large-mouth heat dissipation opening design, with "C-shaped" frames on both sides, and chrome-plated decorative strips above the front lip, echoing the front grille. The side of the body adopts a sloping coupe body structure, the roof curve and the rear part are integrated, the waistline extends from the front fender to the rear door, and the center of the door also adopts a lift-up curve design. The front and rear fenders are slightly wider from the body and are equipped with black wheel arches. The rear of the car adopts a through-type taillight design, the rear surround is "embedded" design, and the chrome-plated decorative strips are installed at the bottom of the rear, and the exhaust port adopts a hidden layout.
The new crown SportCross interior adopts an island design, the dashboard and center console LCD screen adopt an integrated design, the steering wheel is a three-spoke design, the gear shifting mechanism is an electronic design, and the air conditioning panel retains physical buttons, which facilitates drivers to operate blindly during driving. Judging from the overall visual effect, it has a strong sense of technology.
body size, the new crown SportCross is 4930mm, 1840mm and 1540mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2850mm, which is smaller than the 5103mm, 1904mm, 1550mm and 3070mm of BMW 6 Series GT. Judging from the data, it is between the traditional intermediate car, and mid-to-high-end car, but because it is a front-wheel drive car, its interior space is worth looking forward to. In terms of power system, the new American version of the Crown SportCross offers two models, 2.5L hybrid and 2.T hybrid, 2.5L hybrid matches e-CVT gearbox, and 2.4T model uses a 6-speed manual-automatic transmission. Among them, the maximum power of the 2.5L engine is 137kw, the maximum torque of the is 221Nm, the maximum power of the front motor is 88kw and the maximum torque of the 202Nm, the maximum power of the rear motor is 40kw and the maximum torque of the 121Nm; the maximum power of the 2.4T engine is 200kw and the maximum torque of the 460Nm, the maximum power of the front motor is 61kw and the maximum torque of the 292Nm, the maximum power of the rear motor is 59kw and the maximum torque of the 169Nm. In terms of configuration, the new crown SportCross imported into the Chinese market will not disappoint and will reach the level of Lexus ES.
From the price in the US market, the new Crown SportCross has strong competitiveness, with a starting price of US$39,950, and the Lexus NX, which is familiar to domestic consumers, has a starting price of US$39,755; in the Chinese market, the starting price of NX is 318,800 yuan, and the Lexus ES200 is 296,900 yuan, so the kitten expects the starting price of the new Crown SportCross may be 328,800 yuan, lower than the 354,900 yuan of Lexus ES260.
Kitten Heart Blue Viewpoint
As the first imported model of the entire Crown family in the Chinese market, Kitten believes that the new Crown SportCross will have more return to the Lexus ES in terms of price. The two cars complement each other in the Chinese market. The advantage of the new Crown SportCross is that the price is the stronger power and the configuration is more advantageous. The advantage of the Lexus ES lies in its positioning of its luxury brand.Compulsory motor vehicle insurance data shows that Lexus ES' total sales in the first nine months of this year were 73,468 units, and fell 13.55% year-on-year compared with . The launch of the new Crown SportCross should be able to regain some share for Toyota. For those consumers who prefer imported cars, the launch of this car can give them an extra choice.
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