JDM Status Achieved: 1995 Toyota Crown Wagon
The 8th generation Toyota Crown (S130) was introduced in 1987 and sold all the way through 1999 in sweet wagon form, but you wouldn’t know it on this side of the pacific. Apparently Toyota’s USA product planners thought we only wanted terrible front-drive economy cars and the few cool things they brought over here were badged as Lexus…and the Crown was saved for the JDM crowd. But, today is your lucky day because someone managed to get a 7 passenger rear-drive 1JZ-GE Crown Wagon into the New England area. Find this 1995 Toyota Crown Wagon offered for $10,000 outside of Boston, MA via craigslist. Tip from Rock On!
From the seller:
1995 toyota crown wagon
condition: excellent
cylinders: 6 cylinders
drive: rwd
fuel: gas
odometer: 9000
title status: clean
transmission: automatic
type: wagon
1995 Toyota Crown Royal Saloon wagon. Right hand drive. Duncan motors in Virginia imported it from Japan last year. Clean MA title. True mileage unkown. Auto, RWD, 1jz. All original other than the wheels and lowered. Very clean inside and out, original paint. Price is $10k cash only. Email if interested.
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this thing isn’t really a sports car or an attitude cruiser, is it? do big billet wheels with rubber band tires / dropped suspension improve its handling on american roadways?
still, would expect it to be a better experience with proper suspension height and actual sidewall rubber.
anyone care to discuss?
remove the questionable use mods & I would peg this as the highly quirky thinking persons alternative to a minivan.
by which i mean no disrespect, minivans are excellent highway cruisers.
had a ’99 G Caravan with Quad seats in middle row. and it was largely a lovely car to gobble up long miles comfortably, and seat 4 real adults in style, or family/ kids up to 7 capacity. that middle row being in middle of wheelbase and extremely comfortable as result. made he cross country round trip NY/CA in it. loved the thing for the whole distance.
perhaps this is the ultra-indie, thinking rural letter carrier’s, ultimate personal & workday postal machine.
Wheels. Settled technology, you’d think.
We had a big “performance” SUV that came with 22″ wheels. Couldn’t get CrossClimates that size at the time, so we did summer and winter with a set of Hankook i*Cept on 19″ Ronals. The difference in drivability was astounding. Yes, super handling with the big Pirelli summer rubber, but a half hour of it made my kidneys ache. The winter ones handled fine and the ride was serene, far preferable on balance.