Fin de route pour la Toyota Crown

Article d'Autoblog https://www.autoblog.com/2020/11/19/...tinued-report/

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Other than the Land Cruiser, Toyota's longest-running model is the Crown, a large rear-wheel-drive sedan that has been a mainstay on Japanese streets for 65 years. It has faithfully served as taxis, police cars, town cars, and something a Japanese grandfather would proudly own. However, a new report from a major Japanese newspaper, the Chunichi Shimbun, says Toyota will be killing it off next year.
The Crown was introduced in 1955, at a time when most Japanese citizens could not afford their own vehicles. Most cars were sold to taxi services, but their ubiquity made them a staple of city streets. It was even Toyota's first import to the U.S., sold here from 1957-71. Each successive generation grew more luxurious as Japan's economy boomed, and the model became synonymous with Toyota's decades-long dominance of the domestic market.
The Crown, now in its 15th generation, has also been a favorite of customizers, who have transformed the canonical sedan into lowriders, VIP sleds, and drift machines. Its discontinuation has been received among Japan's car enthusiasts with sorrow similar to that surrounding Ford's termination of the Panther platform in the U.S.

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