southernsc

Toyota Crown Athlete

Does anyone have any specs on this car? its capabilities, times, anything?? im doing some searching on toyota and stumble across this, its the most luxurious car toyota has to offer, its even over the celsior! the video shows the crown in action, and i have never seen a suspension "Crawl" like that before please some one enlighten me on this piece of art

LexusLuver

I think that is the 06 GS
Their dimensions match up very nicely.

southernsc

the toyota crown has been around since the 50's, and its a concept right now for toyota USA, but the japanese version is so sweet.

TheOfficeBoy

It is not the 06 GS, but the GS300 shares the V6 of the Crown IIRC.

splitfire

iTrader: (6)

Crown is not more luxurious than Celsior.. it is just the newest model Toyota offering in Japan.. I have been inside the car couple of times.. its smaller than Celsior and it is much cheaper..

splitfire

iTrader: (6)

here are some pictures I took few months ago..

http://rbmotoring.com/gallery/album94

mmarshall

The Toyota Crown was sold here in the US back in the 70's as the top American Toyota model, and was replaced as the top model by the Cressida. The Cressida, in turn was replaced by the Avalon in the U.S. market in 1995...which was originally designed to be a stand-alone Lexus but was shifted to Toyota Division by management to be the new Toyota Flagship. That is why the Avalon drives so much like the ES300, and Lexus decided it didn't need two ES300's. In some overseas markets, the Crown nameplate was retained...as the picture indicates.
I wasn't aware of the "Athletic" model...perhaps this is a sport package for it.