- Toyota has just completely renewed its E-segment sedan, the Crown, which is blatantly evolving both aesthetically and mechanically. Indeed, the Crown, which was an ultra-conservative classic sedan with three volumes between 1955 and 2017 and which had switched to the hatchback in 2017, is going further with this new generation launched in the fall of 2022.

- The new version is presented in the form of a raised hatchback with certain traits of the SUV, so it now looks like a Peugeot 408, with the same dropout at the rear quarter window.

- However, three other bodies will be available in 2023, including a more classic hatchback. But it is the version presented here in photo which is put forward and which should be the most sold.

- Unlike previous versions, the new Crown will return to the US market in 2023 to replace the disappearing Toyota Avalon. The last Crown was sold in the USA in 1972.

- On the Japanese market, the Crown represents Toyota's top of the range, below the Century, which is much less popular and has a V8 engine. From a technical point of view, the Crown is also evolving. It now has a 2.4-liter four-cylinder turbocharged Mild-Hybrid engine with a choice of 236 hp or 340 hp. The new generation of the Crown will have to try to relaunch the career of a model which has declined significantly over the past fifteen years, going from 90,000 sales in 2005 to 50,000 in 2015 and 22,000 in 2021. Inovev forecasts 45,000 sales per year of the new generation, half of which in the United States.