cousin has a Crown. Looks ok to me, but I would never buy a 1st year car model.
Avalon was an upgraded Camry, like Lexus GX is an upgraded 4Runner
“Standard driver safety assistance features include forward collision warning, forward automatic emergency braking, pedestrian detection, adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning, lane-keep assist, traffic-sign recognition, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, safe-exit assist, automatic high-beam headlights, and park assist.”
i’m too old to learn how to use all of that krap ...
Price estimate: $39,950 to $52,400. Um, no thanks
Avalon had a great run. Nice car.
I can attest to that. We’ve had a Toyota Avalon since the day we purchased it in 2008 (brand new). Finer car never made. We have only 50 thousand miles on it because we drove our 2004 Tundra for so many years which is another fine Toyota product. Spit on replacing the Avalon......;(
Crown has a taller roof and higher seating position. Easier to get in and out of, targeted at seniors.
Ford needs to bring back the “Crown Vic”
You could spot the unmarked cruisers a mile away!
I liked the Avalon as well.
We have a 2007 Avalon my FIL gave my wife before his death. That was 5 years ago. It just now hit 80K miles. Sweet car, very comfortable, jumps when you mash the gas.
I always thought Avalons were beautiful cars, but never had one. We’re sticking with our 2012 Accord (turned over 36,000 miles last week), and 2016 RAV4. It would be fun to get new snazzy cars every couple of years, but it seems like such a waste. I’m in to dependable and low cost.
The cost of today’s cars and their technical, and sometimes idiotic, complexity is beyond ridiculous. Where can you use zero to sixty times of seven seconds? Further, why would you? I owned a Mercury Marauder which had, by today’s standards, a modest three hundred horses. In Florida they can seize your car for “racing.” It doesn’t require another car to be considered “racing.” After one or two times going over a hundred, I hardly ever went over the limit again. There just are too few roads where you can, and the cops know all about those roads.
Lately I’ve bought a ‘48 Plymouth and a ‘52 Pontiac. If I park next to a six hundred horse super car, people come over to look at my antiques. They feature mundane mileage, spacious interiors and are very comfortable on the pot-holed dirt road leading to my property. I’ve never had so much fun just driving around. If I’m in a hurry and I need to stop for gas, I look for a pump with no one else there. Otherwise, I’ll have a long conversation with someone who wants to tell me about his dad’s car. It’s way more fun than going to traffic court and getting points off my license.
Always wanted an Avalon, but the budget said Camry. I will not buy a hybrid, and since this Crown comes only in a hybrid, I will probably stop buying Toyota.
I have driven Mazda CX vehicles, may go that route.
I have the opposite impression. MIL used to have an Avalon, good car mechanically but very meh on styling.
I saw an Avalon while out car shopping, liked it quite well. I wish you could get the high end Avalon powertrain in a Highlander. We’re all getting messed over by FedGov CAFE regulations on our vehicle choices, and it is getting worse fase.
I have a 2016 Avalon. Very reliable car. Typical Toyota quality. Toyota is taking the right road in advancing their hybrid technology right now and keeping their EV tech evolving in the background while waiting until EV technology overcomes their range and charging issues
Yet if people wanted a Lexus for the price of a Toyota, they bought an Avalon.
“But it’s true lure will likely be fuel economy. The hybrid base model gets 41-42 mpg”
Going from 35 mpg to 42 mpg saves .00476 gallons per mile driven.
At $3 per gallon that’s .0142 dollars per mile savings.
Drive 10,000 miles and you’ve saved $142.00, having bought $714.00 worth of gas for the 42 mpg car.
Te old Avalons (and maybe recents as well) were the best used cars to buy. People get 300,000 miles in those things