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Everyday Driver Car Debate

TestDrive: Toyota Crown Signia

Everyday Driver Car Debate

Everyday Driver

Leisure, Hobbies, Automotive

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Crown Signia test drive. Write to us with your Car Debates, Car Conclusions, and Topic Tuesdays at everydaydrivertv@gmail.com or everydaydriver.com. Shopping for the Signia or a Crown? Be sure to use autotempest.com/everyday so they know we sent you, and you can search all the car markets including dealer inventory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know if you ever find yourself almost to Mexico what you need is a Toyota product

0:06.0

we're still in the San Diego area we're still driving Toyota product this is the

0:09.4

last of those videos that came from four cars being driven in the same two days.

0:14.8

This is the crown, Signia, which means wagon.

0:20.6

Todd didn't like the crown.

0:21.8

Oh, that's underselling it. He didn't like it at all.

0:24.0

No, not a fan of the sedan. I thought it was actually pretty cool and for

0:28.2

Toyota to bring the crown to North America is a great move. I do agree with that. It's a hybrid. People were asking me is that the next Tesla? No, no, no, no, it's the crown. Many people in North America haven't heard of the crown. True, true, yeah. But not only has Toyota brought it back, it is now the Signia, which is a wagon, and I'm going to fight Toyota to the death.

0:47.0

Uh-huh. This is a wagon, even though they call it a mid-size two-row SUV because nobody buys wagons right if you say wagon it's

0:56.4

sort of like yeah that's the marketing term that won't sell cars even though I

1:00.4

think this looks even better than the crown sedan.

1:04.4

Absolutely.

1:05.4

I do like, but this has changed.

1:07.1

You'll notice, and you'll find out that the crown signia has an entirely different front

1:11.4

end than the other crown.

1:13.6

The stand, it is called the Hammerhead Design.

1:16.2

So that is Toyota's signature move.

1:18.0

They've got a cool generative design, intake,

1:20.0

and the grill pattern.

1:21.6

This looks great, and it's a wagon. It is a wagon in the same way

1:25.2

that the Subaru Outback is sold as an SUV and is also a wagon. So nobody wants to

1:28.9

acknowledge the fact that there's a successful wagon in the US, but I have to think that Toyota is looking at

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