2025 Toyota Crown

Is the 2025 Toyota Crown a Good Car?

"The Crown is a hard one to categorize, as its standard configuration employs essentially the same powertrain as the now hybrid-only Camry sedan — but its styling and features have upscale aspirations. There's also the Crown Hybrid Max variant, which starts in the mid-$50s (gulp!) and pumps out roughly 100 extra horsepower while sacrificing around 10 mpg combined. We find the Crown's pricing hard to justify when the Camry delivers even better fuel economy for less coin, but it's nice to have options, we suppose."—Ranked #4 out of 4 Midsize Hybrid Sedans

"The Toyota-Lexus family is all ate up with hybrid sedans, and it can be hard to keep them straight. Toyota isn't a luxury brand, of course, but the Crown aspires to get consideration from luxury shoppers with its daring styling and upmarket feature set. Under the hood, the entry-level Crown utilizes largely the same powertrain as the Lexus ES Hybrid, while the Crown Hybrid Max pumps up the volume with a 340-horsepower turbo hybrid power plant that features a conventional automatic transmission for a more precise feel. It's hard to see the Crown ever becoming more than a marginal player in Toyota's hybrid portfolio, but should you consider it alongside the ES Hybrid? Absolutely."—Ranked #1 out of 2 Midsize Hybrid Luxury Sedans