All-New 2025 Toyota Crown Signia: Style, Space and Practicality

The 2025 Toyota Crown Signia is an offshoot of the Crown, and a nice one at that.  

The Signia is a wagon/SUV that offers more room and more height – and it should work out well for most Bears, especially with an average mpg of 38 miles.

(Many have noted how the Signia, which replaces the Toyota Venza, drives and feels more like a sedan than an SUV. The title for Motor Trend’s review, “Hey, Look, a Hot Wagon,’ says it all, I feel,)

You will get almost 70 cubic feet of cargo room with the Crown Signia when you fold the 2^nd row seats down.  This is truly the new hybrid on the block, offering a nice and balanced ride, great handling and some great engine options.

Indeed, 38 mpg is the big draw to this car, in addition to the fact that you do not have to plug it in overnight.  I hate charging a car; I am too lazy for it. For those who want to feel like they are making some effort to reduce greenhouse gases, this car should make you feel better.

The style is elegant, the interior is both regal and utilitarian at the same time. And you really do get a sense that this is luxury on a taller and more powerful scale. 

The standard features are rather generous.  All-Wheel Drive for starters. A 12.3-inch touchscreen is a rare standard feature, and wow, does it pop! Toyota’s Safety Sense (a full package of safety features, to include blind-spot monitoring) is also standard. Leather, power liftgate, heated power seats upfront – The Crown really is worthy of a curtsy.

The Crown does have a few noticeable drawbacks. For starters, the engine can sound a bit sickly at times.  It operates fine alright, but this is not a stellar powerhouse on any road. Also, you will need money to get into the Crown (and we are not talking about Olivia Coleman as Queen Liz of The Crown).  Given all the tariff chaos here in the US, I cannot begin to tell you how much it will cost but starting prices last year (prior to all this chaos) were around $41K US.

If you want a good solid hybrid sedan that everyone seems to love, you may want to look into the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid. For starters, it comes in at about $10,000 US cheaper.  And the Camry is a well-known car with lots of wonderful things inside.  And – U.S. News and World Report names it as its Number 1 hybrid for the year. (The 2025 Toyota Prius comes in 5^th Place.)

As always, do your shopping.  And (please) test drive it first. I am not a fan of buying a car online and having it magically delivered.  This is not pizza; if it’s flat and tasteless by the time it’s delivered, you are only out a few bucks with a pepperoni. Not so with a Prius or a Pontiac.

As of this week, we are still in crisis mode here in the United States of America, never knowing whether or not we will have jobs (LGBTs are great public servants), whether or not we will get paid or whether or not our neighbors who make the best tamales in town will still be living next door by morning. 

All my friends, including my husband, have told me not to worry so much and just take care of myself.  I wish it were that easy.  Ultimately, they are right; we can’t really do much directly about the future or what will happen to us by summer, at least not right away.

But we can and should have an honest conversation with those we love to see what we can do to stop the hemorrhaging.  Donate to an LGBT charity? Support a trans or Latina friend somehow?  The possibilities are endless, and those actions will make us feel better, for starters.

Still, stay vigilant, please.  This truly will continue to be our roughest road in decades.  We cannot drop our guard – but we should not sleep wearing our clothes and shoes either.

I truly thought that once protease inhibitors became popular (circa 1996) that our darkest days were behind us.

Boy, was I wrong about that one……