I have noticed the Crown has moved to the GA-L TNGA platform. But was the Crown part of the New N platform? (Feel free to correct me) I always thought the Crown remained on the N platform while only the GS, IS, and RC got the New N application. This was the reason why I thought Lexus might keep the GS, IS, and RC on the New N platform because originally the Crown was on the N while the GS went to the New N.

My apologizes. I didn't mean to cause spam or anything. I only felt the need to response to him (Solara350) because I felt he was causing a toxic environment. He (Solara350) was implying a fellow forum member was poor because this member choose to purchase a Turbo 4 over a V6/V8.

 

Ah yes, you are correct, the previous Crown was on N, not New N, but I still believe next GS and IS will move to GA-L, as the Crown did. Otherwise I think they would have just used New N on the new Crown.

 

Slightly off-topic by now, but is the GA-L a variation on TNGA? The following article claims Crown will be on TNGA.

https://www.motor1.com/news/182393/t...pt-tokyo-show/

 

Ahhh! Yeah. That's where my train of thought was going. My train of thought was that the GS and IS will move to the GA-L at a later time because the Crown stayed on the N and the GS went to the New N. I'm speculating this because Lexus typically uses a platform for roughly 2 generations before switching.

That's a good point but I always thought they didn't use the New N on the new Crown because of the Lexus LS. Isn't the Lexus LS also based on the Toyota Crown? Based on that assumption - I thought Lexus put the Crown on the GA-L because they wanted the Lexus LS to be on the GA-L first.

Yeah. The GA-L is an application under the TNGA. Currently the 2018 S220 Toyota Crown is on the GA-L.

 

Once I had stepped-up to a 6-cylinder car (E46 BMW), I thought (and hoped) that I was done with 4-bangers. The way things are going in the turbocharged era, though, I don't know. Turbo sixes tend to be very expensive.
One reason I bought an IS350 was that I preferred the NA six over a turbo four. I just wish that the damn thing wasn't so peaky. Combining a peaky engine with a transmission that does it's best to keep the RPM's low is not the path to performance.

 

Sport mode fixes that for me. If I am on back roads I usually either use Sport and/or the manual shift mode. Sport is also pretty good, if you are really driving hard, at predicting what gear to be in, at least on my AWD IS with the 6-speed.

 

Normal auto mode may as well be eco mode. It's hard to tell the difference. I hate the way it upshifts into fifth (of 8) coming out of slow corners, just as I want to accelerate a bit. You either have to floor it, or settle for very low RPM's. There's no in-between.

The availability of sport mode, paddle shifters, and manual mode makes it tolerable, at least.