I suspect that you may be right that Toyota is trying to cut costs (or at least minimize costs) on the North American lineup in order to keep prices down (and maintain margins). It may be that average North Americans can no longer afford modern new cars, even as more and more safety and emissions equipment is placed in them, driving costs and prices up.
There are also a lot of people complaining Toyotas have become too luxurious and there was not enough differentiation compared to Lexus...like in the case of Sequoia Capstone vs. LX.
My thoughts exactly
I agree but now we know the regular will most likely be more luxurious than the cross but with toyota calling the cross a full size luxury sedan in the US it's unlikely that will make it there
I would suppose they are removed to reach lower price in USA.
Crown crossover is uglier along with an ugly ass
Only the side profile looks good. The exterior would look good if they did something about the front bumper and remove the black plastic cladding, inside looks good but could do with more ddtails.
