Toyota Crown Estate (AKA Toyota Crown Signia) Released in Japan with Hybrid and PHEV Power Train

The result is a vehicle that embodies both the dignity and functionality of the Crown in what Toyota calls a Mature Active Cabin.

Island architecture is a design in which various functions such as displays and shifts are grouped together and arranged like an island.

The large 21-inch diameter tires on aluminum wheels bring a sense of power and results in flowing and dynamic proportions.

^ Puzzling rhetoric. Some lost-in-translation? I would hope there were also some both-feet-on-the-ground engineers involved in the design...

The dash at least doesn’t look nuts. Heat/Vent controls a tacked-on, unergonomic mess as always. Will it have a spare, who knows.

 

Japan doesn't use all four cycles of WLTP, just the three lower speed ones. So the figures likely are even more generous than EPA.

 

Heat/Vent look the same as the 2025 Camry

I want to know why they do not bring back the Camry station wagon / hatch?

 

Cause they planned a major revamp of the Crown with four body types. The Crown is Toyota's flagship model, and they cancelled the Camry in Japan. The Camry might not a true global model at this point. It is sold in North America, Asia, Oceania, and central Europe.

PS: The original Venza was a Camry wagon, and it didn't sell well.

 

A dowdy wagon, with sensible wheels, good visibility, generous cargo bay? Are you kidding? What about dignity embodiment, huh?

 

i thought, market-wise, the Crown replaced the Avalon which was larger than the Camry.
The wide body Camry used in the US was never global. Japan stayed with a narrow body version.

 

My old, missed 1996 Camry sedan would take exception to being dowdy!
Memories of that car were part of the reason for buying the 2025 Camry XLE.

 

In North America, the Crown crossover replaced the Avalon. Neither of them are much bigger than the Camry. IIRC, the Crown has the same trunk size as the Camry. The current Accord is a bigger car; actual full fize.

The Crown is more important to Toyota, and is about 30 years older than the Camry. It was their first export to the US. The Camry and Corolla are actually named after it. This generation is getting a big push to revitalize it; in Japan and globally. There is sedan, lifted sedan, hatchback, and wagon version of it, with a mix of hybrids and even a FCEV one.

With it, and Japan no longer getting a Camry, I don't see Toyota spending funds to make Camry variants. A bigger factor against it is the growing popularity of crossovers and SUVs globally. To Toyota, the Highlander is the Camry wagon.

The narrow body platform only lasted to 2003, and by then it was Vista only. Japan has been getting the wide body Camry since 1996, as has the rest of the markets.
Toyota Camry - Wikipedia