The Toyota Crown is much less of an Avalon substitute and extra like Toyota’s reply to the Nissan Maxima. As a substitute of being appreciably larger than the Camry, it has a extra expressive design. Not like the Maxima, although, it is probably not extra luxurious inside than the 2025 Camry and it truly has a worse commonplace powertrain: the fourth-generation hybrid system versus the considerably improved fifth era.
After which there’s the trunk. Frankly, given the physique form and the way little consideration I’ve heretofore paid to the Toyota Crown, I had assumed it was an Audi A7-style liftback. Fallacious. It has a daily previous sedan trunk. It measures 15.2 cubic-feet, which is 0.1 dice smaller than the 2025 Camry. It is usually 0.1 dice smaller than the sorta-previous-generation Camry, which I baggage examined right here. Let’s simply assume the subsequent era can be successfully the identical.
Two notes about this area. First, it has egg crusher hinges, however not like these within the final Camry, they’re sheathed in plastic as a result of the Crown is fancier. It additionally has the little back-seat-folding pulls, which may usually impede loading. The Crown’s trunk is tall sufficient, although, that I did not discover it did.
Additionally, I made a decision to get all Dan Edmunds right here and use arrows to point that the ground oddly slopes down on the left aspect. This did not actually make a distinction when loading baggage, however I believed it was bizarre, so there it’s.
Nicely take a look at that, a spare tire.
OK, let’s get to the baggage. As with each Baggage Check, I take advantage of two midsize curler suitcases that may have to be checked in on the airport (26 inches lengthy, 16 large, 11 deep), two black roll-aboard suitcases that simply barely match within the overhead (24L x 15W x 10D), and one smaller inexperienced roll-aboard that matches simply (23L x 15W x 10D). I additionally embody my spouse’s fancy in a single day bag simply to spruce issues up a bit (21L x 12W x 12D).
Step 1. The edge (?) of the trunk pass-through is only a bit taller than my inexperienced bag, that means I may fill what would in any other case be the open, triangular area brought on by the opposite baggage being too tall to suit. The blue bag there is among the largest baggage, however I ended up placing it in a distinct last location.
Step 2. Bear in mind, the inexperienced bag continues to be again there. This is able to be the large blue bag and the 2 medium baggage stacked on high of one another. It is uncommon that I will stack these baggage atop one another in a trunk, which speaks to this trunk’s peak.
I also needs to observe that the flamboyant bag seems to be squished, but it surely’s simply deflated. If it was full it might match.
Importantly, although, there’s truly sufficient area right here the place I may have a minimum of positioned a second inexperienced bag if I owned one.
Step 3: End the job with the largest bag. Voila! All the baggage match contained in the Toyota Crown with, as you’ll be able to see within the backside proper nook, an honest quantity of area left over. A extra inflexible bag like the flamboyant bag could not match, however two soft-side duffels would. Additionally, do not forget that a much bigger bag would’ve match the place the flamboyant bag did.
So this is a superb end result for a midsize sedan. It isn’t fairly to the Accord stage, which may swallow a cooler along with all the baggage, but it surely’s higher than plenty of SUVs.
What concerning the Camry? Sadly, after doing this I spotted I did one thing completely completely different with the Camry 4 years in the past. I due to this fact ran all the way down to the storage and rapidly redid this check, utilizing the identical objects I used for the Camry and tried the identical Tetris formation.
That is the Camry up there. I clearly didn’t attempt to put the small curler within the again (small inexperienced bag equaled small blue again then). This was the area left over consequently.
I then moved the flamboyant bag ahead and as an alternative of imagining a much bigger curler bag, I went to an alternate prop: my Thule Spring stroller.
Camry on the left, Crown on the fitting, identical formation.
As you’ll be able to see, all of it slot in each automobiles, however the fancy bag was a bit squished within the Crown. Due to this fact, the Camry is certainly ever-so-slightly larger. They each, nevertheless, nonetheless managed to carry six baggage and a stroller. That is fairly good.
Why did not I simply go along with this end result initially? Nicely, I’ve not used the stroller a lot over time (I actually cannot consider one other occasion, however then I’ve executed 150ish of those so who is aware of), significantly with different midsize sedans. Due to this fact, the primary result’s extra of the official one and this one is extra to point out how comparable the Crown’s trunk is to the Camry’s.
P.S. As an apart, I simply seen the tag was nonetheless on the stroller once I did this check. My son would not even be born for an additional month and alter. He’ll be turning 4 subsequent week. So will the stroller, which has been improbable by the best way. Yay Thule Spring.
