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A four-cylinder Crown? No way
The hybrid launched with the 13th generation was a 3.5 L V6 and fairly expensive. For the 14th-generation hybrid, Yamamoto, thinking of the people who would use it, decided to drop the V6 and go with a 2.5 L inline four. People at the Toyota Store dealers that sell the Crown pushed back, saying a four-cylinder Crown was no Crown, and Hiroyuki Watanabe, who had led the ninth and tenth generations, even told him that if he was going to do an inline four, he would not be forgiven unless it was better than the V6.
