Toyota Crown Crossover Landscape Is an All-Terrain Trim for Japan

• Toyota is beefing up the Crown in Japan with a brand new Panorama particular version.
• All-terrain tires, wheel arches with uncovered rivets, and an non-compulsory roof rack full the adventurous look.
• The Crown Panorama will almost certainly not be provided in the USA.

Toyota retired the full-size Avalon sedan in 2022 after a virtually 30-year run, changing it with the high-riding Crown, which may’t fairly determine if it needs to be a sedan or an SUV. Now Toyota is decidedly transferring in direction of the latter with a brand new particular version for the Japanese market. The brand new Panorama trim, which will get jacked up even additional, wears all-terrain tires and is obtainable with an non-compulsory roof rack.

An All-Terrain Crown

Toyota sells an entire household of Crown automobiles in Japan, the place the model that we obtain stateside known as the Crown Crossover. The Crown Crossover Panorama arrives for 2024 with a roughly one-inch elevate, and it is fitted with tough-looking 18-inch wheels shod in 245/60 all-terrain rubber. There’s additionally beefier wheel arches in a matte end with uncovered rivets, and crimson mud flaps are tacked on behind all 4 wheels.

The Panorama additionally comes normal with a tow hitch, able to pulling as much as 1653 kilos. All Landscapes are painted in City Khaki, a neat mild inexperienced hue, with gloss black accents on the hood, trunk, and door trim. There are additionally rear fog lights on both facet of the license plate.

For many who need to go all-in on the outdoorsy look, Toyota is providing its Japanese prospects a roof rack, proven right here loaded up with gear. The cabin is generally unchanged, however a black trim piece on the dashboard options neat “Panorama” branding etched in, with the A’s represented by mountains.

The Panorama is obtainable unique with the Hybrid Max powertrain, which mixes a turbocharged 2.4-liter four-cylinder with an electrical motor on the rear axle for a complete of 340 horsepower. At present conversion charges, the Crown Crossover Panorama prices the equal of simply over $45,000 in Japan. Sadly, we do not count on this aggressive-looking improve to be provided on the U.S.-market Crown.

Caleb Miller started running a blog about automobiles at 13 years previous, and he realized his dream of writing for a automobile journal after graduating from Carnegie Mellon College and becoming a member of the Automotive and Driver group. He loves quirky and obscure autos, aiming to at some point personal one thing weird like a Nissan S-Cargo, and is an avid motorsports fan.