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2000- Toyota CROWN ATHLETE

After the birth in 1955, the CROWN has been known as a brand of the tradition that leads the luxury car of Japan during half a century. At the 12th generation, it was placed all with "ZERO CROWN" which considered from the origin in a theme by a "Changes from silence to throbbing pulse "in December, 2003.
A basic performance such as engines and suspensions including the platform is completely changed, and the current with new luxury sedan is presented by state-of-the-art and a variety of style with the throb feeling, superior movement performance, safety, environmental performance of the top-level of the world, and technology and comfortable equipment.
The ATHLETE gets the lineup done as a series to emphasize sportier in externals and running. The body adopt aluminum to an engine hood, and the body which lightweighted it sets front and back weight distribution at good 53:47 of balance. It contributes to coexisting of high manoeuverability and flat riding comfort. It took the minute structure including everything that a feeling of quality came out in naturally in the details, and the room assumed that I let you do a feeling of an expanse of space by movement of front and back direction and tolerant plane movement.
An engine is two models of 2.5L and 3.5L in DOHC of V6. It is combined with 6AT or 5AT. Only the ATHLETE got to 3.5L of installing the change of 3.0L engine by Lexus in the minor change in October, 2005. Equipment and the enhancement of the specification were attempted as AT of 2WD car of 2.5L was changed at 6MT besides arranging one's verbs and objects to the externals design at this time.