2023 Toyota Crown Exterior and Dimensions

To call the new Toyota Crown exterior unusual-looking would be an understatement. All the typical three-box sedan elements are present, albeit in a particularly swoopy style, but its elevated ride height and body cladding makes it into a distinctive-looking sedan. The detailing is also distinctive, with a gaping air intake in the front bumper, slit-like headlights, and a coupe-style roofline with an odd black insert disrupting the area where the rear pillar meets the belt line. It's perhaps not instantly attractive, but it becomes better-looking the longer you look at it.

Three trim levels are available for the Toyota Crown's introductory year, comprising the entry-level XLE, the mid-range Limited, and the range-topping Platinum. There isn't much visual difference between their exteriors, but the two lower trim levels run on 19-inch alloy wheels as standard, and the Platinum features 21-inch items. Limited and Platinum trims both have quad-LED headlights while the XLE has bi-LED headlight units, and the XLE is the only trim without a standard fixed-glass panoramic sunroof. Toyota's more premium aspirations for the Crown are evident in the acoustic noise-reducing windshield, and the same applies to the front passenger side windows.

With an overall length of 196.1 inches and measuring 60.6 inches in height, the Toyota Crown dimensions are quite substantial. It stands more than five inches taller than the low-slung Kia Stinger, and is nearly six inches longer as well. All this translates into easier entry into a more spacious cabin than its competitors offer.

The Toyota Crown is however slightly narrower than the Kia Stinger, with an overall width of 72.4 inches compared to the Kia's 73.6 inches, but it beats the Stinger's shoulder room of 56.4 inches by more than half-and-inch and is only 0.3 inches narrower in terms of hip room.

There isn't much difference between the Crown's lowest curb weight and that of the comparable AWD Stinger, with the Toyota pulling the scales at 3,980 lbs against the Kia's 3,973 lbs. The Crown Platinum is a heavy beast, though, because its claimed curb weight of 4,343 lbs is 167 lbs more portly than the top-spec AWD Stinger.

The Crown's wheelbase of 112.2 inches is, however, more than two inches shorter than that of the Stinger, but that's largely due to the Kia's RWD-based architecture enabling its engineers to move the front wheels further forward. Nissan's Maxima is also smaller than the Crown and has an even shorter wheelbase, so it is the clear loser in this area of comparison.