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Toyota released a teaser of a new sedan with an “…elegant yet athletic look.” The sedan is apparently a production ready car and not a concept and if it really is the new Avalon (what else can it be) it looks like that the stodgy old retiree-mobile is getting some youthful new duds. Sort of like seeing your Grandpa wear Air Jordans because he bought them for $29.99 at Marshall’s. Except this time, it seems to be intentional.
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Looks like a Hyundai Sonata from the rear, with a lot of Accord coupe in the C-pillar.
Give us the Toyota Mark X or get out!
(simple…decontent the GS to the Avalon’s price point)
What profile are those tires?
Looks to be 355/05-24?
+1
Why do they even release these ridiculous “concept” drawings?
It’s hard to get excited about seeing a standard “rendering” like the last 999 car previews; most do not resemble the production car in most ways. Pass the bong, dude. It’s like saying a person you’ll meet will resemble those Bratz dolls.
I’d be shocked beyond words if the Avalon was ever “sporty” in any sense of the word. Its target demographic would never touch it.
Great. Another sedan with an inaccessible trunk, all in the name of aerodynamics and “sporty” styling.
Eventually, the formal roofline will have a comeback.
What a revelation it will be when cars have rear seat headroom that isn’t achieved by putting the seat cushion at floor height and trunk openings that accommodate items shaped like suit cases.
This “sedan” appears to be lacking rear doors too.
This is why you don’t see very many ads advertising interior space, its just not there these days.
And everyone wonders why so many SUVs and CUVs are sold. All the above concerns are taken care of by one of those.
Make way for the new NY Black Cab also run in the race to replace the Town Car!
Does the dinner at 4:30 crowd really care about “athletic” looks?
“I’m not force-feeding myself a steak at four-thirty to save a couple of bucks, I’ll tell you that!”
This picture isn’t a very good rendering of what it looks like. I do like how the roofline comes almost back to the end of the car. They made the trunk opening deeper to make up for the shorter top.
That trunk opening is still a mail slot. Not anywhere near useful.
The trunk opening is as big or bigger then the current camry’s. You can’t even see the trunk opening in that picture!
Ford did that type of roofline on many of their cars, including Mustang, Torino, and Galaxie in the 60’s.
Looks like the Japanese designers are starting to catch up.
It is a Toyota attempt to decrease the demographic age of their buyers like GM did with the Caddy market. I have a lot of gray on my roof and have driven two company Avalons for over 200,000 miles (’07 and ’11 models) between the two, quiet, dependable, comfortable, fairly efficient, good radios and AC/heat. They are vanilla cars, maybe not exciting, but reliable with good residual value and suit my current needs just fine. I can dream about the Cobras and the GT40’s of my youth, but Toyota has done a good job for my specific auto need.
Am I the only one that doesn’t care at all anymore about renderings such as this?
What is this, the Avalon for a 4G planet?
At least GM’s renderings from the 60’s had people holding skiis or pointing at deer.
These drawings mean little to me either. They always look like something that should run on di-lithium crystals. And then you have people judging their trunk access or ground clearance based on the cartoon picture.
Well I’m only 34 years old, three box sedan design MIGHT make a comeback in my lifetime.
You want a traditional three-box sedan? Buy a crew-cab pickup truck and put a bed-cover on it.
I’m kind of short for those.
This rendering brings as much hope that Toy will produce a truly good looking sedan, as a million monkeys at a million drawing boards…
If you hadn’t told us I would have guessed a BMW. So many vehicles have copied BMW.