Toyota Aurion 2006 (2 Viewers)

[wheredanton]

I don't know if anyones mentioned it, but these are FWD cars aren't they? Otherwise everything else in the Aurion looks very appealing.

Unless you tow a a gigantic trailer or plan on power slides I doubt there is any advantage of RWD to you, the average P plater.

 

[Jiga]

Yeah FWD means crap, if anything the only hinderence it makes is that they have had to not offer manual as it would be crazy to have a 200kw FWD Manual! From a review I read recently, the car handles very well, they have said better then the Falcon at least... the whole reason why the car is auto is so the cars electronics work together to reduce understeer etc. Eitherway, understeer is regarded as safer than oversteer, so unless your some idiot who wants to oversteer his car into a pole this isnt really a disadvantage.

Would have been nice to see the TRD Aurion in AWD though, that would have been something... 240kw on FWD is really reaching the very limits I think, AWD would have been alot more appealing to customers and would have meant that a manual could be used.... I think this particular car will suffer as a result of this. Im assuming they did this because the TRD Aurion will only be sold in Australia, so they werent going to invest alot and just used the same platform as the basic Aurion... which is stupid because if they put more into it, made it AWD with a manual... this car could have been successful not just here but also overseas, the U.S particularly so. But then again, it would also blur the line between lexus and toyota, more complicated then it firsts looks maybe

 

[wheredanton]

Yeah FWD means crap, if anything the only hinderence it makes is that they have had to not offer manual as it would be crazy to have a 200kw FWD Manual! From a review I read recently, the car handles very well, they have said better then the Falcon at least... the whole reason why the car is auto is so the cars electronics work together to reduce understeer etc. Eitherway, understeer is regarded as safer than oversteer, so unless your some idiot who wants to oversteer his car into a pole this isnt really a disadvantage.

Would have been nice to see the TRD Aurion in AWD though, that would have been something... 240kw on FWD is really reaching the very limits I think, AWD would have been alot more appealing to customers and would have meant that a manual could be used.... I think this particular car will suffer as a result of this. Im assuming they did this because the TRD Aurion will only be sold in Australia, so they werent going to invest alot and just used the same platform as the basic Aurion... which is stupid because if they put more into it, made it AWD with a manual... this car could have been successful not just here but also overseas, the U.S particularly so. But then again, it would also blur the line between lexus and toyota, more complicated then it firsts looks maybe

The top of the range Aurion essentially replaces the lexus ES in Australia.

 

[BIGTYMA]

My family is getting the Aurion Presara this Wednesday. When i was in the car during the test drive it ran extremely quietly and surprisingly the cabin space is quite large considering that the dimensions of the aurion are roughly the same as the camry.